{"id":14188,"date":"2024-07-13T17:32:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2024-07-13T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:32:57","slug":"why-the-ludicrous-republican-response-to-trumps-conviction-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14188","title":{"rendered":"Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump\u2019s conviction matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Democrats didn\u2019t convict Trump; a jury of 12 ordinary Americans did. The Biden administration played no role in prosecuting the case; the indictment came from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and was issued&nbsp;<em>after<\/em>&nbsp;federal prosecutors declined to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/why-did-federal-prosecutors-drop-trump's-hush-money-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">go after Trump on similar charges<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The current Republican party is so hostile to the foundations of the American political system that they can be&nbsp;<em>counted on<\/em>&nbsp;to attack the possibility of a fair Trump trial. Either Trump should be able to do whatever he wants with no accountability, or it\u2019s proof that the entire edifice of American law and politics is rotten.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/352814\/trump-conviction-republican-response\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/352814\/trump-conviction-republican-response<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democrats didn\u2019t convict Trump; a jury of 12 ordinary Americans did. The Biden administration played no role in prosecuting the case; the indictment came from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and was issued after federal prosecutors declined to go after Trump on similar charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current Republican party is so hostile to the foundations of the American political system that they can be counted on to attack the possibility of a fair Trump trial. Either Trump should be able to do whatever he wants with no accountability, or it\u2019s proof that the entire edifice of American law and politics is rotten.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/352814\/trump-conviction-republican-response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,280,221,170],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14190,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions\/14190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}