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Short fuses and short memories

Former Donald Trump advisor and “Trippie” Stephen K. Bannon is set to turn himself in to federal authorities this morning after being indicted Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress.

Already Republicans are plotting their revenge:

Many GOP leaders, however, are seizing on Bannon’s indictment to contend that Democrats are “weaponizing” the Justice Department, warning Democrats that they will go after Biden’s aides for unspecified reasons if they take back the House majority in next year’s midterm elections, as most political analysts expect.

“For years, Democrats baselessly accused President Trump of ‘weaponizing’ the DOJ. In reality, it is the Left that has been weaponizing the DOJ the ENTIRE TIME — from the false Russia Hoax to the Soviet-style prosecution of political opponents,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the third-ranking House Republican, tweeted Saturday.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested that Republicans would seek payback if the GOP regained control of the House, signaling that in challenging the doctrine of executive privilege, Democrats were making it easier for Republicans to force Biden’s top advisers to testify before a future GOP Congress.

Not only did the email lady not refuse to endure an 11-hour grilling by the Republicans’ Benghazi committee, but it’s unlikely anyone from the Biden administration would. It is hard to bring contempt of Congress charges against cooperating witnesses, but Jordan may try.

For Republican “hoaxers” who need their short memories refreshed, this report from late 2019:

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies during their lengthy investigation.

That group is composed of six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, one California man, and one London-based lawyer. Seven of these people (including five of the six former Trump advisers) have pleaded guilty.

If you also count investigations that Mueller originated but then referred elsewhere in the Justice Department, you can add a plea deal from one more person to the list.

More short memories:

Prevagen-deficient Grassley does not remember (or conveniently forgets) that the conservative Washington Free Beacon backed by New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer “originally funded the research firm” (Fusion GPS) behind the Steele dossier. “Steele didn’t begin work on the project until after Democratic groups took over the funding.

This complaint comes from the same Republican Party that brought you “yellowcake uranium,” Iraqi “unmanned aerial vehicles [for dispersing] chemical or biological weapons” and targeting the United States, “high-strength aluminum tubes,” a “smoking gun…in the form of a mushroom cloud,” “mobile biological agent factories,” “yellowcake uranium,” and that the Iraq War would cost no more than $50-$60 billion and take “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly [not] any longer than that.” And finally, that there were diabolical WMDs the administration would soon find “in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.” Kinda sorta.

Remind friends and family at Thanksgiving just who is crying “Hoax!” now.

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