I’ve said it before and I will say it again, these Establishment Republicans, these RINOs, have proven time and again that they represent a threat to our Republic that is more serious, and very much so, than even the one posed by the Democrats. And nothing, and I do mean absolutely NOTHING, has made that more painfully obvious that than the presidency of one Donald J. Trump. Think about it. When looking back at the last four years, with a truly unbiased eye, what President Trump managed to accomplish is truly remarkable. He showed himself to be the most conservative president in the history of this country and I say that with no reservation!
Meanwhile, it has been our cadre of congressional
RINOS, right down the very last one, many of whom in the past have claimed to
be ardent supporters of the conservative agenda have stood in way, and very proudly
so, in the way of President Trump as he worked tirelessly to make good on those
promises what got him elected. We all
know the names of these ‘usual suspects,’ and these traitors to their constituents
and, even worse, to our country. President
Trump has spent four years trying to advance those causes, many of which, these
very same traitors have promised to support if we elected them. They chose not to keep those promises.
It’s one of those RINOs, Sen. Ben Sasse, of
Nebraska, who recently released a short, and rather terse, statement in which
he chose to bash President Trump for doing nothing more or less than what the
Constitution allows him to do as president. That being to grant pardons and
commute sentences. President Trump chose
to do so for 29 individuals, including Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, both men
who I have always felt were essentially railroaded for no other reason than because
they chose to support Donald Trump for President. And where it would seem that President Trump
agreed with that assessment, it’s quite clear that Sasse most definitely did
not.
And how do we know that Sasse was less than enthusiastic
when it came to these pardons? Well
because it was shortly after the pardons were issued that Sasses office
released a statement that made that sentiment very clear. The entire statement
from his office said: “U.S. Senator Ben Sasse released the following statement
after President Trump exercised his constitutional power to issue pardons to
another tranche of felons like Manafort and Stone who flagrantly and repeatedly
violated the law and harmed Americans. ‘This is rotten to the core.’” “Rotten
to the core?” How so, exactly? Well Sasse provided no reasoning or rational
for his claim.
President Trump pardoned 26 individuals, including Paul
Manafort, Roger Stone, and George Papadopoulos, who were investigated by the
FBI as part of its probe into the Russian collusion hoax but ‘convicted’ on
charges completely unrelated to collusion. President Trump also commuted part
or all of the sentences for three additional Americans. One of the individuals was Topeka Sam. Sam
served three years of a 130-month sentence she received in 2012 after pleading
guilty to a conspiracy to process and distribute cocaine, but has since
dedicated her life to helping other women towards a path of redemption and
founding Ladies of Hope Ministries.
It was back in October that Sasse reportedly held a
call with several of his Nebraska constituents during which he slammed President
Trump, saying he “mishandled the coronavirus response, ‘kisses dictators’
butts,’ ‘sells out our allies,’ spends ‘like a drunken sailor,’ mistreats
women, and trash-talks evangelicals behind their backs.” It has been reported that Sasse sees himself
as being a potential 2024 presidential hopeful.
Good luck with that, Ben! And, you may recall that it was Sasse who also
incorrectly predicted a “blue tsunami” on Election Day — despite historic
turnout for a Republican president as well as sizable gains in the House for
Republicans.
President Trump criticized Sasse as a “RINO” back in
August, after Sasse bashed him for issuing executive orders to halt the government’s
collection of payroll tax and provide $400 federal unemployment checks to
Americans. And it was then that Sasse said in a statement: “The pen-and-phone
theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop…President Trump does not
have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law.” If I remember the president took that action because
of those, like Sasse, in Congress essentially refused to do much of anything to
help those Americans struggling under the weight of the ‘Chinese Virus.’
Sasse’s complaints would likely be considered a bit
more credible if it was any of us who could remember Sasse whining as loudly as
he is now back when ‘BO’ was busily pardoning some real scum bags, genuine criminals,
and more than a few sex offenders. But
it was then that Sasse was remarkably quiet.
By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, ‘BO’ had
exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemency—that is, “pardon,
commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve” to
1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Now I don’t recall Sasse, who
was elected in 2014, making any such accusations.
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