Tucker questions the recent and ongoing politicizing of “justice” we’re seeing now. Highlights include
“The hallmark of any authoritarian regime is politicized ‘justice.’ Under that system, your opponents go to jail, your supporters can do whatever they want, and this reveals that the state exists not to serve the people who live in it, but to preserve itself, and to crush all dissent.”
“In fact, we have reached that point, that’s where we are. Yesterday, for example a man leaped on stage at a campaign event and tried to stab Lee Zeldin.”
“Ordinarily, attempting to assassinate a federal office holder would be considered a big deal. But Lee Zeldin is a Republican, so it’s not a big deal anymore. The man who tried to murder Lee Zeldin was released immediately with no bail.”
“Less than 24 hours later, by contrast, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon was convicted of crimes that until recently were not crimes at all, for which he now faces a prison term of 2 years.”
“If you’ve been paying any attention at all to our ‘justice system,’ particularly under Merrick Garland, you had some sense of where this was going. It was moving toward the authoritarian system we now have, where justice is an illusion. Offend the people in charge, get punished. Support the people in charge, do whatever you want.”
“Still, even knowing that, today’s conviction of Steve Bannon is an escalation. There was not even a pretense in his ‘trial’ that the prosecution of Steve Bannon was lawful.”
“So, the Constitution requires equal protection. Heard that phrase? That means that selective prosecution is not allowed, it’s unconstitutional. If you don’t try one person for a crime, you don’t get to charge another person for the same crime, ‘cuz that’s selective, it’s political. But under Merrick Garland, that’s the new rule. Offend us, go to jail.”
“If the committee wanted to get to the truth of the ‘Trump grabbed the wheel of the limo’ allegation, they would’ve talked to people who were there, but they didn’t.”
“Republicans, if they’d been allowed to cross-examine, if they’d demanded to cross-examine, we’re not defending Republicans, they’ve fallen down on the job, that’s an understatement. But if someone had been allowed to ask adult questions of the witness, we might have learned what CNN viewers will never know. But none of that was allowed, ‘cuz it’s pure propaganda.”
“There was no cross-examination allowed in any of this, because this committee would not allow it, no rebuttal of any kind. So, of course there was no inquiry as to why a Capitol Hill officer with a documented history of recklessly mishandling firearms shot an unarmed woman in the neck, an air force veteran.”
“Why? We’re not allowed to ask. What happened to those thousands of hours of surveillance footage? Why can’t we see those? You’re not allowed even to ask why we’re not allowed to see them. We can’t know why police are on video letting people into the capitol complex on January 6, why is that? Not allowed to ask.”
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