Former Federal Prosecutor Appears To Call Republicans Criminal Accessories, Reads Federal Codes On Live TV

He called them ALL out!


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The Republican party as a whole is doing everything that can possibly think of to bust Trump out of his impeachment scandal on a technicality. But they’re quickly running out of options.

Now they’ve resorted to calling for testimonies from both the whistleblower as well as Democratic 2020 candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, whose dealings in Ukraine are at the center of Trump’s choice to attempt to extort the Ukranian president — which they evidently believe will help them in some way or another. Who knows with them?

But former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has had enough of the Repugs’ antics. In a live segment with MSNBC’s AM Joy, Kirschner not only called the Republicans all the way out on their bullshit, he did so by reading directly from the federal criminal code.

“They know that crimes against the United States have been committed,” the former federal prosecutor stated. “That’s really no different than just hiding the president in the basement of their house to try to keep law enforcement from rightfully getting their hands on the president.”

He then read one sentence straight from the criminal code that nails exactly what the Republicans have been doing:

“Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.”

Kirschner continued:

“The point is a distraction and sideshow, trying to do anything to deflect the attention away from the crimes that the president committed that are impeachable. All this conjures up a notion of all of these Republicans, senators in particular, who are basically aiding and abetting in President Trump’s crimes because they’re trying to bury them. They know that crimes against the United States have been committed and, real quickly, one sentence from this big old blue book that you and I have talked about before, this is the criminal code that has all of our federal laws in the country and accessory after the fact is one sentence and here’s how it reads, Joy.

It says,Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.’ And, you know what, every politician who stands up knowing that the president committed a crime against the United States and says the president did nothing wrong, they lie to the American people. That’s really no different than just hiding the president in the basement of their house to try to keep law enforcement from rightfully getting their hands on the president. Now, you might say well, it’s hyperbolic to say all of these Republicans who lie to the American people and say the president committed no crime, it’s too much for us to get our arms around. Too many crimes are being committed, and it’s a lot like littering or speeding. Well, I would say, you know, not that it’s too much crime to get our arms around. It’s too much crime not to get our arms around. This is something that we have to wrestle to the ground.”

That’s straight from the book, folks. Trump is going down. And he’s fixin’ to take the majority of the GOP down with him.

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