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Charges are more than theater
To the editor:
I read in The Northeast Georgian this week about the thoughtless reactions that our local legislators have shared regarding the indictments of Donald J Trump. Those 91 separate charges, it seems, are nothing more than political theater, the machinations of Joe Biden and his liberal cronies for the purpose of damaging the political aspirations of said Donald J Trump.
I would point out to Victor Anderson and Bo Hatchet that each of the 91 felony charges was brought about after four grand juries composed of ordinary citizens agreed that the volume and reliability of evidence presented by the various prosecutors and law enforcement officers was conclusive enough to demand a criminal charge by the people of the United States.
These grand jurors were not politically motivated, but even if they were, evidence is evidence; either it’s real or it isn’t.
I would also point out that, in each indictment, the witnesses who testified against Trump and his cohorts were overwhelmingly loyal Republicans, and the FBI which instigated much of these investigations is headed not by a liberal but by a Trump appointee.
The charges are real; the law was broken. These are crimes.
The judicial system of the United States would not allow them to be charged otherwise. It is frivolous of Anderson and Hatchett to try to explain away 91 separate felony charges as political theater rather than face the embarrassing fact that for the past seven years the Republican Party has been supporting and promoting a seditious criminal.
Whatever happened to the party of “personal responsibility?”
William Gailey
Baldwin