By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 16:02:53 | Updated at 2024-11-22 21:06:26
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Deep State Hack John Cornyn Signals He’ll Sabotage Trump AG Pick
The Federalist ^ | 11/16/2024 | BRIANNA LYMAN
Posted on 11/15/2024 7:39:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President-elect Donald Trump is entering the White House with a Republican trifecta, but he may hit roadblocks to implement his America First agenda — and not because of Democrats. Instead, Republican swamp creatures like Texas Sen. John Cornyn are signaling their intent to sabotage Trump’s cabinet nominees because they threaten the deep state.
Trump tapped former Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general. Gaetz, prior to March of 2021, “had been an effective and prominent voice in Congress pushing back against the Washington establishment’s worse impulses and abuses of power,” as my colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote.
Gaetz took on the Democrats headfirst, exposing the deep-state’s lies during the Russia collusion hoax and sounding the alarm on Washington’s excessive (and perhaps unconstitutional) response to the Jan. 6 riot and the weaponized Department of Justice prosecutions targeting everyday Americans caught up in the political crackdown.
But “Gaetz couldn’t very well critique the Department of Justice for their political prosecutions if he was a pariah who everyone thought was a pedophile,” as The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway wrote.
So, The New York Times published an anonymously sourced piece in 2021 accusing Gaetz of potentially being a child sex trafficker. The story created 18 months of fodder for Democrats before prosecutors decided not to recommend charges for Gaetz, according to yet another anonymous piece this time published by The Washington Post.
But swamp creature Cornyn is dredging up the pedophile hoax to sabotage Trump and Gaetz.
[READ NEXT: John Bolton Asks Deep State To Deep-Six Trump Nominees Before They Fix Corrupt Intel Agencies]
“I think that there should not be any limitations on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation, including whatever the House Ethics Committee has generated,” Cornyn told reporters.
BREAKING: Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) wants to review the House Ethics Committee investigation of Matt Gaetz during the Attorney General confirmation processpic.twitter.com/S5T4AgOIIM— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 14, 2024
His comments came just one day before the House Ethics Committee was, according to The Hill, “set to meet Friday to vote on whether to release its findings.”
But why is Cornyn hellbent on getting his hands on a report the committee conveniently never released? (Surely if the findings were so damming that they warrant review by Cornyn the committee would have released them)
Because Cornyn and his cronies are preparing for what Justice Clarence Thomas described as a “high-tech lynching” of any Trump nominee they dislike. Thomas was infamously disparaged by then Sen. Joe Biden’s Judiciary Committee for a series of baseless allegations.
In the end, the only threats to Trump’s America First agenda are Republican establishment figures like Cornyn who are more concerned about protecting their swamp interests than supporting Trump’s vision for change. Cornyn’s crusade against Gaetz is just the latest example of an out-of-touch Republican establishment desperately trying to hold onto power by resurrecting baseless smears to impede key nominations.
Republicans have a choice: fight the swamp or become part of it.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ag; doj; johncornyn; mattgaetz
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1 posted on 11/15/2024 7:39:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
It’s much easier, safer, and financially rewarding to be a member of the swamp. Just makes me appreciate those that fight the swamp!
2 posted on 11/15/2024 7:41:36 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
To: SeekAndFind
Let not your heart be troubled...Trump’s appointments will be confirmed.
3 posted on 11/15/2024 7:41:47 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
To: SeekAndFind
Republicans have a choice: fight the swamp or become part of it.
Choices reveal our hearts.
4 posted on 11/15/2024 7:42:55 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: SeekAndFind
5 posted on 11/15/2024 7:43:13 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
To: SeekAndFind
Two words: “Recess appointment”. I have others for Cornhole but they are not for public consumption.
To: brownsfan
I really hope Trump and Elon propose repealing the 17th Amendment and eliminating the Senior Executive Service
7 posted on 11/15/2024 7:44:13 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
To: SeekAndFind
“Be very careful fighting the AG. They are the ones who can destroy your life with the stroke of a pen” - Someone
To: SeekAndFind
I am so eager to fund a primary challenger to John.
He is beyond a Deep State putz. Absolute scum.
Come on Dan Patrick or Ken Paxton.
9 posted on 11/15/2024 7:46:54 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
To: stars & stripes forever
You can’t make a recess appointment if The Senate is never in recess Mitch did that BS for 4 years Thune is Mitch 2.0
10 posted on 11/15/2024 7:47:05 AM PST by iamgalt
To: SeekAndFind
Cornyn’s term is up in 2026. He will hopefully be primaried, and whoever runs against him will get my vote and the votes of the majority of Texas Republicans. He is done as of November 2026, and he probably knows it. Until then, I guess we have to put up with him.
To: SeekAndFind
Every Texan should be calling, emailing and faxing this Senator every day.
12 posted on 11/15/2024 7:48:32 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
To: SeekAndFind
Flood his offices with messages:
Houston Office
5300 Memorial Drive
Suite 710
Houston, TX 77007
713-572-3337
Harlingen Office
6770 W. Expressway 83
Suite 302
Harlingen, TX 78552
956-423-0162
Lubbock Office
Wells Fargo Center
1500 Broadway
Suite 1230
Lubbock, TX 79401
806-472-7533
Dallas Office
5001 Spring Valley Road
Suite 1125 E
Dallas, TX 75244
972-239-1310
San Antonio Office
600 Navarro
Suite 210
San Antonio, TX 78205
210-224-7485
Tyler Office
Regions Bank Building
100 E. Ferguson Street
Suite 1004
Tyler, TX 75702
903-593-0902
Austin Office
221 West Sixth Street
Suite 1530
Austin, TX 78701
512-469-6034
Washington Office
517 Hart Senate Office
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-2934
13 posted on 11/15/2024 7:48:34 AM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
To: SeekAndFind
Who will crumble for Cornholio? 
14 posted on 11/15/2024 7:49:11 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
To: brownsfan
Cornyn is up in 26 l don’t think he’s dumb enough to die on this hill
15 posted on 11/15/2024 7:49:13 AM PST by iamgalt
To: SeekAndFind
Texan here. I wonder how nasty I will be allowed to get in my correspondence with Cornhole?
16 posted on 11/15/2024 7:49:26 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
To: SeekAndFind
Donald is smoking out all of the RINO swamp critters. Playing the long game.
17 posted on 11/15/2024 7:49:32 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
To: iamgalt
As I understand it, there is a mechanism to force a recess.
The House may request a recess of Congress. The Senate would refuse.
Faced with a tie, the President can say Yes or No. Trump would say Yes to a recess.
So, basically, the Senate must recess if the House wants them to.
18 posted on 11/15/2024 7:49:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
You can bet that Cornyn will be primaried, and his opponent will be well funded.
19 posted on 11/15/2024 7:51:12 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: bigbob
Let not your heart be troubled...
I love that scripture, but cringe every time Hannity uses it either on his radio show or Fox show on tv.
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