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Some House Democrats are hailing a Manhattan grand jury’s decision to slap former President Donald Trump with criminal charges — even though they once ripped him for threatening to lock up political opponents.
“Threatening to jail political opponents is something despots do. This is dangerous and beneath our great country,” griped Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts on Twitter during an October 2016 presidential debate between Trump and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
At the time, Clinton was enmeshed in an email scandal that Trump took advantage of, with the phrase “lock her up” becoming a common rallying cry at many Trump campaign events.
Clark’s position on the ethics of apparently politically motivated prosecutions shifted 180 degrees when news of Trump’s indictment broke.
“No one is above the law — including a former President of the United States,” she said in a statement posted to Twitter Thursday, adding the process must continue “unimpeded and free from” political interference.
“This is not a time for partisanship, but for all Americans to act peacefully and put their faith in the justice system,” she insisted.
Clark and other Democrats’ hypocritical remarks show the “only principle” they actually believe in anymore is “political power,” Donald Trump Jr.
