Before you dismiss the INVESTIGATION of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz by the U.S. Treasury Dept. or the House Oversight Committee, headed by Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) as just another attempt by Donald Trump to embarrass a political opponent, you would do well to go back and examine what happened to former Alabama Gov. DON SIEGELMAN.
Anyone else notice that the question is framed as if guilt is assumed?
What George W. Bush and Karl Rove, along with a U.S. attorney of questionable scruples, did to Siegelman back in 2002 was nothing short of criminal collusion in an effort to defame and dethrone a popular Democratic governor.
The players may have changed with the comings and goings of political operatives (Donald Trump instead of Bush, Stephen Miller in lieu of Rove and Walz as the target instead of Siegelman), but the teams and the playbook are the same—except today, the stakes seem to be higher than ever before.
The character assassination of Siegelman was so egregious that a bipartisan (for the Repugnantcans out there, that means both political parties) group consisting of 113 former state attorneys general from across the U.S. filed a FEDERAL APPEALS BRIEF in support of Siegelman’s unsuccessful bid to overturn his criminal conviction.
As a result of that conviction, Siegelman served six years in FEDERAL PRISON in Oakdale, Louisiana, where he became friends with fellow inmate former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards.
The point of all this is this: If you’re a popular Democratic governor and the Repugnantcans see a glimmer of a chance of flipping your state, your non-involvement in any hint of a scandal matters little. If you’re a Democrat, you’re already guilty. Conversely, in December 1992, in the waning days of George W. Bush’s administration WILLIAM BARR, who was Attorney General, said of the Iran-Contra scandal, “People in this Iran-Contra matter have been prosecuted for the kind of conduct that would not have been considered criminal or prosecutable by the Justice Department.”
Wow. No prosecutions in Iran-Contra? Those mushrooms must’ve been kickin’ when Barr said that.
Barr, you will remember, was in his second term as attorney general, this time under Trump, when, in 2019, he publicly misconstrued the contents on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the investigation of alleged obstruction by Trump and conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. “Nothing to see here, folks,” was Barr’s dismissal of the report which, of course, said otherwise.
That’s pretty much the summation of the Repugnantcans. If a smell is coming from their side of the aisle, it’s of little consequence. If, however, it’s on the Democrats’ side, it’s a grievous felony that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, even if it means jail time.
Walz’s only hope is in the fact that Pam Bodi is so inept, so much dumber than Barr, she may not be able to pull off a conviction of the Minnesota governor.
Of course, that won’t keep the Repugnantcans from trying—over and over and over and over…
Louisiana Voice 
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