There are two threads in this Diary. One is corrupt, venal, lying Rs getting caught and put away as a regular and now accelerating occurrence. The other is Democrats getting stuff done in quantity last year, and looking like they can do it again this year, right through the November elections and beyond.
I am not simply an always-glass-half-full guy. My starting point, which I want you to remember at all times, is that it isn’t their glass, no matter how much they pretend that that is the essence of their privilege.
It started with R Reps. Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins, the first Rs to support candidate Trump. They were arrested, tried, re-elected, convicted, and sent to prison in 2018. TFG pardoned both of them in 2020.
Then it was Nebraska R Jeff Fortenberry running for re-election while under felony indictments that came down in October, 2021. He can’t look forward to a pardon, if convicted.
And it may be happening again. Marc Caputo reports from Florida:
NBC News, Orlando, Fla.--Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testifies to grand jury in sex-trafficking probe
A major development that suggests the DoJ mayi be moving closer to indicting him
But wait, there is so much more!