"PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!"

A bombshell statement to Congress from Aaron Zelinsky, the prosecutor in the Roger Stone case who says he withdrew because of “wrongful political pressure”: https://t.co/qflT5oEYYn

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 23, 2020

Here's Zelinsky's opening statement:

"What I heard--repeatedly--was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President."

Full statement: https://t.co/bkzJRTvTyn

— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) June 23, 2020

There is a name for this:

PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020

Yeah, Trump brags about it.  But that's tomorrow; and it's just a setup, now, for what Noam Chomsky had to say:

“The first thing that comes to mind is the absolutely unprecedented scope and scale of participation, engagement and public support,” Chomsky told Brooks. “If you look at polls, it’s astonishing. The public support both for Black Lives Matter and the protests is well beyond what it was, say, for Martin Luther King at the peak of his popularity, at the time of the I Have a Dream speech. It’s also far beyond the level of public reaction to earlier police killings.”
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“It’s not just the police killing — it’s background issues,” Chomsky told Brooks. “It’s beginning to move into concern, inquiries and protests about the facts that lead to events like this occurring. This rise in consciousness is aided by the rise in consciousness of 400 years of vicious repression.”

Chomsky cited Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, a Democrat, as one of the many politicians who has expressed her solidarity with the Floyd protestors — asserting that this level of “popular support” is “driving (President Donald) Trump and Fox News insane.”
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Chomsky said of Sanders’ campaign, “I get letters all the time or see things posted saying, ‘We tried, we lost, it’s over; so, I’m getting out.’ That’s not what happened. What happened was a tremendous success, an unparalleled success. Nothing like this has happened in U.S. political history — actually, almost ever, since the real populist movement, the radical farmers’ movement, was crushed by force. The spectrum of discussion has been substantially shifted. Things that were not on the agenda not long ago are front and center: universal health care, called for and amplified by the pandemic disaster; a Green New Deal, the result of serious activism by a small group of young people who occupied congressional offices — and the background was the Sanders success, and of young members of Congress who swept into power to support them.”

Some on the left have been critical of Sanders and his Democratic ally, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City, for throwing their support to the centrist Biden, but not Chomsky.

The 91-year-old author told Brooks, “Sanders has made the tactical decision — which some criticize but I think is correct — to join the Joe Biden campaign and push it to the left. His associates are working on planning commissions, and in fact, if you look at the program that’s emerged, it’s further to the left than anything since FDR (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt). It offers lots of opportunities.”

Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.  Take that as you wish.