Mod: Rupert Murdoch helped create the monster. Now he wants others to clean up the mess? How about that. Wall Street Journal urges GOP to dump Trump over his 'truly stupid' Mar-a-Lago cover-up (Raw Storylink): Reacting to the superseding indictment filed against Donald Trump this past week that contains three new charges tied to obstruction of justice and illegally sharing classified documents, the editors of the conservative Wall Street Journal urged Republican lawmakers to stop making excuses for him and make sure he is not on the ticket in the 2024 election.
Citing overwhelming evidence that the former president had close aides -- who have now been indicted themselves as co-conspirators — attempt to erase surveillance video sought by the
FBI at his
Mar-a-Lago resort, the editors declared that enough is enough and provided a laundry list of
Trump transgressions that continue to cast a shadow over his third presidential run.
"Does
Donald Trump not understand the greatest truism in politics— i.e., that it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup? That screams from the page while reading Thursday’s superseding indictment of
Mr. Trump, who now stands accused of trying to delete incriminating
Mar-a-Lago security video," the editors wrote before bluntly adding, "
Mr. Trump is entitled to a defense and presumption of innocence, but this is a damaging allegation."
Pointing out that, "If
Mr. Trump sought to destroy evidence, it undercuts his defense on the document charges. He contends that the
Presidential Records Act gives him the right to retain documents from his time in office. But if
Mr. Trump believed that, he would have played it straight," the editors made a strong case that
GOP lawmakers should be furious with the former president for what he has put them through for years now.
"
Republicans should also be angry at
Mr. Trump, who is again the architect of his own destruction. He led the
GOP to defeats, many of them driven by his personal grievances, in
2018,
2020,
2021 and
2022. Add his
Covid performance, the
Jan. 6 riot, a
$5 million civil jury verdict for sexual abuse, plus now a truly stupid alleged
Mar-a-Lago coverup," they wrote before continuing, "Yet
Mr. Trump still expects the
GOP will save him from his own recklessness by nominating him for the
White House a third time. He wants
Republican voters, as he does
Messrs. [Walt] Nauta and [Carlos] De Oliveira, to take the fall with him."
Mod: More at the link, including one for the original Wall Street Journal article.
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