So if the judge presiding over the Trump hush money case should recuse himself because his daughter is politically active, then shouldn’t Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito recuse themselves as well because their wives are also VERY politically active?
It’s the same thing with Trump and all the MAGAts who repeat his howls that judges in Washington, DC, Fulton County, and New York City are corrupt, but the one he appointed in Florida is upstanding and ethical in every way, even though she’s exposed her bias for Trump multiple times.
Even before a jury in Manhattan ruled that Trump is guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to pay hush money to a porn star he claims he never had sex with, Trump and Trump goons were claiming that Judge Juan Merchan was biased and should recuse himself because his daughter worked for a company that contracts work for Democratic political campaigns.
Merchan’s daughter working for Democratic campaigns isn’t enough for MAGAts to scream about, they also have to tack on a few lies like she tweeted an image of Trump behind bars. She never did that, but I have.
What we haven’t heard are Republicans calling for Thomas and Alito to recuse themselves from Trump cases that their wives are connected to. Martha Alito showed support for the January 6 White nationalist insurrection. She was so connected to it that she got into a feud with neighbors for their vile act of placing signs in their yard supportive of democracy. Ginni Thomas didn’t just wave a flag for MAGA terrorists, she was on the team trying to overturn the election Donald Trump lost, even sending texts back and forth to members of the Trump administration on strategy for stealing the election from then President-Elect Biden.
The defense against Thomas and Alito recusing themselves is that they didn’t directly engage in Trump treason, their wives did. They can’t be biased for Trump because their wives are their own individual persons with freedom of speech and it’s no way in connection to their husbands’ jobs.
Republicans lack more than facts…they lack consistency.