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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 30, 2021, 08:20 PM Sep 2021

Dems Need to Follow Lead of 84-Year-Old Congressman and Call for Trump to Be Criminally Prosecuted

Dean Obeidallah

If a Democratic president did exactly what Donald Trump did after losing re-election — from radicalizing his supporters with lies of “election fraud” to calling them to the Capitol on January 6 then urging them to “Stop the Steal” which led to an “act of domestic terrorism” as the FBI has classified Jan. 6 — is there any doubt that Republican members of Congress would be screaming daily for that former president to be criminally prosecuted?! We would hear daily chants by the GOP of “lock him up” on the floor of the House! And to be honest, they would be doing the right thing.

But when it comes to Trump, we see almost no Democratic member of Congress calling for him to be criminally investigated. That is except for a feisty, 84-year-old Italian-American member of Congress from my home state of New Jersey, Bill Pascrell. He not only has the courage to call for Trump to be prosecuted, but he’s now calling out fellow Democrats for lacking the “cogliones” (Italian slang for “balls”) to do the same — as he did earlier this week on my SiriusXM show.

Pascrell, who has served in Congress since 1996, has been calling for Trump to be prosecuted — and slamming the January 6 attackers as “terrorists” — for months. Maybe his brutal honesty is a Jersey thing, maybe it’s an Italian-American thing (I’m half Sicilian) but in any event we need more of it from other Democrats.

In fact, a November 17, 2020 tweet pinned to Pascrell’s Twitter account calls for Trump to be brought to justice: “Tonight I’m calling for the eventual prosecution of Donald Trump and his enablers for their many crimes against the United States.” Attached to that tweet is a statement from Pascrell which reads in part, “Donald Trump and members of his administration have committed innumerable crimes against the United States,” as it goes on to list criminal offenses Trump should be investigated for, from personally profiting from the presidency to Trump’s attacks on elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-need-to-follow-lead-of-this-84-year-old-congressman-and-call-for-trump-to-be-criminally-prosecuted/ar-AAP0vbX

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Dems Need to Follow Lead of 84-Year-Old Congressman and Call for Trump to Be Criminally Prosecuted (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
one can dream that dems will join his call nt msongs Sep 2021 #1
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