WHAT FUCKING CASE???!!!????

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says Trump wants to intervene in case of St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters - The Washington Post https://t.co/UGViPMFHSo

— Jacob Heilbrunn (@JacobHeilbrunn) July 15, 2020

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Tuesday that President Trump would be “getting involved” in the case of the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at a group of protesters passing outside their home last month, and who are under review for criminal charges.

The Federal Government has neither the right nor the responsibility to weigh in on this, and I'm honestly guessing even William Barr knows that:

[Gov. Parson] said Attorney General William P. Barr “was represented on the call,” and he thinks the president and the attorney general “are going to take a look” at the McCloskeys’ case.

“The president said that he would do everything he could within his powers to help with this situation and he would be taking action to do that,” Parson said.

Parson is playing mini-Trump here, letting his mouth write checks for Barr's ass to cash.  There's nothing here for the Feds to do, even if Barr wants to (you thought the DOJ was pissed about Stone?).

The prosecutor investigating the McCloskeys, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner (D), responded by accusing Trump and Parsons of playing politics with a local criminal investigation. Gardner said the facts of the case and the applicable laws are still under review and she would “apply them equally, regardless of the people involved.”

“It is unbelievable the Governor of the state of Missouri would seek advice from one of the most divisive leaders in our generation to overpower the discretion of a locally elected prosecutor,” Gardner said in a statement.

Trump’s apparent eagerness to involve himself in a state case that pits a viral gun-toting couple against racial injustice protesters is another example of his attempts to oppose protesters at any opportunity. Trump said in a Tuesday interview with Townhall, a conservative news website, that any attempt to prosecute the couple for a crime would be a “disgrace."

Pitiful thing is, if they do face charges and are convicted, Trump can't so much as commute their sentence.  State law, bay-bee.  10th Amendment and all that stuff Republicans used to scream about.  I'm not even a states rights guy, but this is basic Constitutional law.  The disgrace here is all on Trump.  And then there's that ol' debbil "hyperpartisanship," which looks so much like racism it's almost funny:

The governor on Tuesday suggested he wanted Gardner removed from office. Parson said the state legislature should consider ways to remove local elected officials in future legislative sessions, and appeared to want to involve Trump in the immediate case.

“We’ve got to explain to him why it’s very difficult for an elected official in this state, for a governor, to remove somebody from office, or what powers you have as a governor,” Parson said at the briefing. “I don’t want to make it sound like he’s going to come in and remove somebody from office. But I’ll guarantee you that the president’s focused on what’s happening here.”

Gardner, who is black, suggested Trump and Parson were launching racially motivated attacks against her.

“It is also incredible that at a time when our nation is dealing with a rapidly spreading deadly virus and our State reported a record number of new infections, they are launching these dog-whistle attacks against me,” she said. “They should be focused on their jobs, and I’ll focus on mine.”

That last piece of advice is the soundest.  Parsons thinks his job is telling Gardner how to treat rich white people in a predominantly black town:

Parson views Gardner’s investigation as an affront to the Second Amendment, saying he believed the couple was legally allowed to brandish the firearms under the state’s “castle doctrine” — Missouri’s “stand-your-ground” law that allows property owners to use force against intruders who cause property owners fear of imminent harm.

The police chief is much more sensible:

“The hostility is what I noticed,” St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief John Hayden told KMOV of the June 28 incident. “I don’t want to see guns out when people are very hostile and angry at each other. Those are recipes for violence."

Imagine local officials having a better understanding of local issues than officials further away.  Gee, there oughta be a political philosophy for that!

Missouri has almost 29,000 covid cases, almost 1100 covid deaths, and reported 936 new cases on Tuesday of this week.  Gee, wonder why the Governor wants to talk about gettin the President involved in this case of two rich white people in St. Louis?

Will Trump get involved?  Sure, right after he withdraws funding from all the nation's schools that didn't follow his command, and he gets his border wall finished.