Mary Dinan

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

@AriFleischer https://t.co/kzBRljsjVR

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

This is stunning a sitting U.S. senator is saying this out loud.

She is quite explicitly advocating for prosecutions to scare young people away from politics.

@ElissaSlotkin is truly a danger to democracy--a democracy she pretends she's protecting.

This is a fascist tactic.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

@ewarren @TroyJackson207 https://t.co/kzBRljsRLp

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

This is stunning a sitting U.S. senator is saying this out loud.

She is quite explicitly advocating for prosecutions to scare young people away from politics.

@ElissaSlotkin is truly a danger to democracy--a democracy she pretends she's protecting.

This is a fascist tactic.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

@ChrisMurphyCT https://t.co/kzBRljsjVR

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

This is stunning a sitting U.S. senator is saying this out loud.

She is quite explicitly advocating for prosecutions to scare young people away from politics.

@ElissaSlotkin is truly a danger to democracy--a democracy she pretends she's protecting.

This is a fascist tactic.

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

This is stunning a sitting U.S. senator is saying this out loud.

She is quite explicitly advocating for prosecutions to scare young people away from politics.

@ElissaSlotkin is truly a danger to democracy--a democracy she pretends she's protecting.

This is a fascist tactic.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Please vote - don't stay home, just go vote.
Red.

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

Sen. Elissa Slotkin says she wants the threat of prosecution to serve as a "deterrence message" that scares young people away from taking jobs in the Trump administration.

The Michigan Democrat made the remarks at a University of Chicago event, saying she wants prospective hires to think, "Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that."

The comments drew sharp backlash from legal scholars and conservative students alike, with law professor Jonathan Turley saying Slotkin "said the quiet part out loud."

Full story here https://t.co/K5GsbWeuiN

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Senator, I look forward to discussing this comment with you in an interview on the Ingraham Angle.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

These are just frustrated high school students fighting for their pedagogic rights. Let's not succumb to Islamophobia. - @JessicaTarlov

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

It is absolutely disgraceful to threaten young Americans for participating in politics and serving their country.

[New York Post @nypost]

Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin https://t.co/tWo4ZWktcr

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

https://t.co/t3PxcBXsX4

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Transgender teacher convicted of threatening 'murder spree' at school, media bury gender identity https://t.co/5IkKBCfOub

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
—Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

Scott describes how one deception creates the need for another. Explanations, concealments, and accomplices gradually entangle the deceiver.

Dante takes the moral argument deeper. In The Divine Comedy, fraud occupies a lower place in Hell than violence because it deliberately corrupts the human capacity for reason. Intelligence, speech, and trust—gifts that should unite people—become instruments for exploiting them. The eighth circle punishes fraud; the ninth punishes treachery, the betrayal of special bonds of trust.

Applied to politics, the central question becomes: Who is deliberately betraying the public’s trust, and what evidence establishes that betrayal?

If an elected official knowingly falsifies material records, the wrongdoing can extend beyond paperwork to a betrayal of public responsibility. If government officials knowingly use investigative power to punish political opponents, they betray the authority entrusted to them. If commentators excuse conduct by allies that they condemn in opponents, their proclaimed principles become instruments of faction.

These are moral standards by which to examine conduct. Applying them to an individual requires evidence.

Does “nobody is above the law” remain a principle when the investigation concerns someone we support? Do the presumption of innocence and constitutional safeguards remain principles when the person investigated is someone we oppose?

A principle that changes with the party of the accused has become a political convenience.

Scott warns that deception entangles the deceiver. Dante warns that calculated deception corrodes the trust holding a community together. The damage spreads when citizens, journalists, and officials make loyalty to a faction more important than loyalty to truth.

We should investigate credible evidence, protect due process, correct falsehoods, and demand accountability wherever the facts lead. Justice requires the same standards for our friends and our adversaries—and the honesty to accept what those standards reveal.

[Mary Dinan @dinan_mary]

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