BREAKING: Rep. Don Bacon (R) on Trump's second indictment

[Omaha Steve]

Well DUH!

[wnylib]

1. Guess who gets primaried next time he's up for election.

[elias7]

5. That's the R's problem. They operate like the Mob, not a civilized party in a Democracy

[pandr32]

6. 100% this.

[stopdiggin]

13. true - to both above -(nt)-

[JanLip]

20. Mob

Yes, a mob with a mob boss at the helm. Good description

Jan

[paleotn]

34. Nebraska's 2nd district is a toss up according to Cook.

They primary Bacon at their own peril. Get crazy and the R's lose that district. Thus Bacon's grasp on reality. Going to see a whole lot more of that in +5 R and tighter districts. This shit, along with a host of other things, may just cost the R's the House and Senate even if NY isn't allowed to redistrict.

[calimary]

39. And that's a shame. There's one Republican who can recognize the truth

when he sees it, and actually says so in public. There aren’t many of ‘em, unfortunately.

[MyOwnPeace]

42. And isn't THAT ironic?

We're thinking how sad it is for an actual 'thinking' Republican to being put at risk because he/she can actually deal with reality and react appropriately. Perhaps we've identified yet another endangered species.......

[RockRaven]

2. It's like he doesn't know TFG at all... Yeah, okay. Who could have seen this coming?

[617Blue]

3. Swing district GOPer

you think he wants to run with orange shitbag at the top of ticket?

[rurallib]

29. There is a swing district in Nebraska?

Color me surprised

[jayschool2013]

30. Biden carried that district in 2020

And it wasn't close: 52.3 percent to 45.7 percent for Trump and 2.0 percent for the Libertarian candidate, Jo Jorgenson.

And that gave Biden an electoral vote because Nebraska splits its electoral votes by district.

Omaha, a moderately liberal city, comprises much of District 2.

Lincoln is a liberal city of 340,000 in District 1, but the rest of the district is nearly 95 percent GOP, so even though Lincoln is governed by Democrats, primarily, the rest of the district makes it non-competitive.

District 3 is dominated by Republicans skews the rest of the state's voting to the right.

[paleotn]

36. Omaha. Nebraska 2.

Tough to gerrymand a state that has only one population center. The rest is more cows, corn and wheat than people.

[radius777]

45. Most urban/metro areas (even in red states) are blue

just as most rural areas even in blue states are red.

[jonstl08]

66. My thought also

He is just the first of a few I think GOP'rs representing districts Biden carried or barely lost that will be coming out with statement similar to this. Trying to save there seats.

[Walleye]

4. He'll come to his senses in a couple of days. Once the RNC has a chat

[JanLip]

24. Yea

Sit him down and rough him up. Make him pay. You don’t go against the mob

Jan

[paleotn]

38. If he goes orange shit bag, he's toast in '24 and knows it.

Omaha. Nebraska's swing district. Even R vs D according to Cook. Going to see a whole lot of this in the coming months. How the Republican machinery handles this phenomenon may drive the House and Senate to the Dems next year.

[republianmushroom]

7. No, he should of handed them over when he left office,

there should not of been a need to ask him to turn them over.
Prison time for trump.
28 months and counting

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Or, Just Not Taken Them

They had 11 weeks to organize the move. They had plenty of time to return what wasn't his in an orderly fashion.
This all started because he took something that he never should have taken.
In most places, they call that theft.

[republianmushroom]

12. agree

Prison time for trump

[mgardener]

15. Anybody else

Upset, disgusted at the careless way these documents are handled stored and accounted for?


Our libraries do a better job of keeping tract of books then the government does protecting secret info.

I am not excusing Trump.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Absolutely

He was to cavalier about national security information when he had the right to view it.
He lost that privilege and got even worse about it.
He's a thief, he's a liar, and convicted or not, he's a criminal.

[MyOwnPeace]

43. You know what? He is SUCH a SICK F**K.........

I truly believe he did not think he was going to have to leave the White House!

Think about that - he didn't pack - he didn't make plans for 'what's next' - he didn't go to the Inauguration - he REALLY BELIEVED HE COULD STAY!!!!!!

How SICK is THAT!

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Yes, That's Sick

A very depraved & demented man.

[soldierant]

54. Agreed. However,

based on quotations which have been publshed from the Espionage Act, the Act doesn't carehow you got them. The Act cares that you "willfully retained" them.

[ProfessorGAC]

55. Good Point, But...

...if he never took something that didn't belong to him, he couldn't have "willfully retained" them.
It all started by stealing them.
Everything else is a consequence of the theft.

[soldierant]

56. The reason I bring it up is theFederal rules on venue.

He took them from Washington DC, within the space of - what - maybe a week?

He willfully retained them at Mar-a-Lago for months. More than a year.

There were almost certainly others he retained elsewhere, but the boxes - the great volume - were at Mar-a-Lago.

That's why the case must be tried in the South Florida District, and not elsewhere.

[liberal N proud]

8. The orange menace attack begins 3, 2, 1

[PJMcK]

9. I'm going to give him a hat tip for this

He’s the first Republican to openly and unequivocally criticize Trump’s handling of government documents. I haven’t heard that ANY others have taken a proper position on this indictment.

Still, he’s a Republican…

[stopdiggin]

16. I'll second that hat tip

and also your observation that this is WAY out in front of contemporaries - either in that state, or really in the region. So - kudos. For integrity, and uncharacteristic honesty and clarity.

[ShazzieB]

35. I'll third it!

I think he definitely deserves credit for this.

[MyOwnPeace]

44. I'm 'IN' on the credits, but......

I can't imagine he's anything but toast by the next election.

Shame on them.

[ShazzieB]

48. Up thread, someone was saying he's from a liberal district thst Biden won in 2020.

So he may have reason to believe he'll be okay. That could be why he was willing to stick his neck out.

[MyOwnPeace]

51. I know the district - have friends that now live there....

and I might wish that he'd be safe at least as far as having a MAGAt oppose him - and I'm willing to even give him GREAT CREDIT for standing up for what is 'right!'
BUT, at the same time, I'm looking for EVERY CHANCE to get a DEMOCRATIC seat - so that Kevin can go down the hall and have all of the fun in the world with his band of NUTSO traitors - and he deserves every second of it!

[ShazzieB]

52. Good point!

I want to see him go down, too, and take his wishy-washy speakership with him!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

63. Then again...

It's not the general election he has to worry about, but the primary.

That's where he'll be vulnerable.

[RAB910]

11. A damning indictment of the moral corruption of the GOP

That this is nees

[HardPort]

14. Nebraska Unicameral Legislature to pass a motion to censure in 3, 2, 1 ...

[Marius25]

17. His wording is weak

It's not just how he stored them. It's the fact that he had the most secret information our country possesses, and was letting thousands of people at Mar a Lago just look at them anytime they want.

Bacon's framing makes it seem more like the false equivalence to Biden and Pence, neither of whom showed them to other people nor did they have nuclear secrets.

[llmart]

32. That's how I feel about it.

He's portraying it like it was a misdemeanor or something. What part of "37 FELONY COUNTS" doesn't he get?

[liberalla]

18. Wow! How very refreshing!

...and old fashioned!

[Permanut]

19. It is shocking.

Wait until he finds out there's gambling in Casablanca!

[Aviation Pro]

21. USAF pilot

So he understands.

[MOMFUDSKI]

22. Well, that

is a toe in the water if I ever saw one.

[SouthBayDem]

23. Bacon voted for Trump policies in 89% of votes

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/house/

[Emile]

25. How did he vote on Trump's impeachments?

[sprinkleeninow]

26. No kidding, Sherlock.

😬

[1WorldHope]

27. I'm shocked to hear that from him.

But, I think that behavior needs to be encouraged. He represents the largest city in Nebraska, so he represents a lot of people that don't agree with him on anything else. I hope it spreads like a virus to others in his party.

[jayschool2013]

31. Biden carried that district in 2020

By nearly 7 percentage points. It earned him an electoral vote because Nebraska splits theirs.

[Javaman]

28. The tide will completely turn against tfg when

It’s deemed, by the repukes I charge, that he’s more a liability than a benefit. But like any huge machine, political or otherwise, it takes a while for it to slow down to turn around.

With that in mind, while any sane person only causally paying attention can see, that tfg is a massive liability, those repuke sycophants have a hard time seeing the nation before the insane minority right.

But there are always a few “rebels” who “suddenly” come to their senses aka they won’t ge re-elected if they support tfg. Aka political opportunists.

We will see another watershed election come 2024 when the last of the moderate right wing nuts lose. But don’t get me wrong, there will always be the insane right wing fringe. But after 2024, their voices will be seen as the lunitic fringe as more of the right wing turn into “Good Germans”.

The bobos and mtg’s are a dying breed, they won’t completely go away, but, for the most part, everyone will move one and stop playing them any attention.

[Sky Jewels]

33. "I'm shocked that the guy who tried to violently overthrow

the government and install himself as dictator would do such a thing!”

[twodogsbarking]

40. It's Trump. What did he expect.

[retread]

41. I am shocked!

[radius777]

46. This is what most GOP officials are probably are thinking,

but can't say due to fear of the MAGA base.

Bacon is in a swing/light blue district so he can speak more freely.

[617Blue]

49. He can make all the half hearted statements he wants

If Trump is at the top of the ticket Bacon`s bacon might be cooked.

[MayReasonRule]

47. Nazi Rat Reeking Of Bacon Jumps Off Sinking Ship...

I'm not impressed when one Nat-C rat consumes another.

They're ouroboros by nature it's just what they naturally do.

[Xavier Breath]

53. I don't believe him for a minute.

It's pretty transparent what he's up to. He's just angling to be Liz Cheney's VP.

[AllyCat]

57. Republicans eat their own.

This guy primaried in ‘24 for speaking truth.

[jimlup]

58. Idiot beyond measure...

Sorry dude - if you are this late to the party you are lost.

[dchill]

59. Don Bacon - The Thinker.

[hay rick]

60. Retired from the Air Force after 29 years.

He may have acquired a distaste for traitors in that time.

[Skittles]

61. he sounds.....honest

why is he a repuke?

[Mopar151]

62. Rodent level political skills, military tactics

Get clear of the wreckage now! This guy has the rules for classified documents engraved inside his forehead -he'll not put a hair out of place when saying "shoulda coulda woulda"

[OldBaldy1701E]

64. "Now, if you will excuse me, I have to get back to destroying our society." (n/t)

[appleannie1]

65. Never said he would not vote for him if he gets chosen to run.

[Joinfortmill]

67. I'll take it. We need more of this.