Weaponized Department of Justice springs to action against Dan J. Sullivan
He says the case “reeks of selective prosecution.”
For some context, the Washington Post reported that RFK Jr. is pressuring Libertarian candidates in Iowa to drop out and help Republicans, and he told one of them that he “can’t go into specifics because there’s legal prohibitions about that,” but added, “if it’s something that you want to talk about, you know, you and I can talk about specifics.”
“There is virtually no chance that Trump’s hyper-weaponized and partisan Department of Justice will go after the cabinet member,” Marre wrote.
“However, Dan J. is another matter because it seems as though the FBI and state authorities are trying to charge somebody with something in that case.”
“That being said, if they can prove that Dan J. was promised something of value for his participation, it would be a different matter.”
“You know, like what RFK Jr. seems to have done… or how he got his job in the first place when Trump offered him a cabinet position if he dropped out of the 2024 race.”
“The real threat to democracy here isn’t that Dan J. is running for the Senate, even if somebody asked him to because he shares the name with the incumbent,” Marre wrote. “Instead, it is that the FBI is getting involved in what certainly appears to be an effort to harass him into dropping out.”
“Of course, in light of the administration’s incompetence and poor track record in waging lawfare against Trump’s enemies, there is always the chance that they will indict the wrong Dan Sullivan,” wrote Marre, the senior editor for US politics at WhoWhatWhy.
Meanwhile, Kimberley Strassel, the Wall Street Journal columnist who moved to Wasilla some years ago, attacked the Alaska Supreme Court for allowing Petersburg Sullivan to be on the ballot.
Strassel claims the Alaska judges are unprincipled and intellectually lazy, unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, which she insists is not corrupt and not beholden to Trump.
Strassel claimed the Alaska judges lack the independence and the sterling character of the U.S. Supreme Court majority:
“For an example of judges who don’t possess the rigor or principles described above, see Alaska. That’s where the state supreme court on Monday ordered the Division of Elections to allow “Dan J. Sullivan” on the state’s primary ballot for the U.S. Senate—and run against the actual Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. Message from the court: Bring on the political dirty tricks.”
Sullivan, ‘native’ Alaskan
The Wall Street Journal said that to celebrate July 4th, “We asked natives of all 50 states to send us short reflections on the places that made them.”
For Alaska it asked ‘native’ Sen. Dan Sullivan, whose office wrote this:
“To be an Alaskan is to have the resilience to face extraordinary challenges and the ingenuity and pioneer spirit to find solutions where no roadmap exists. Alaska celebrates big ideas and big thinkers, because working together, we are building the land of the future—where opportunities are unleashed for our families and our children that we can’t begin to fathom today. We are blessed with so many advantages relative to other places in the world: Our vast natural resources, including boundless energy; huge deposits of metals and minerals; more shoreline than all the other states combined; our strategic location and strong military; a great diversity of people and cultures; and the promise of a new Arctic frontier. By working together with this unique Alaska fire, Alaskans have built the best state in the Union.”