Bud Cummins Interview on PBS
Former US Attorney Bud Cummins is a loyal Republican. He is also one of the fired US Attorneys at the heart of the current attorney firing scandal. He was interviewed by PBS and he makes some eyebrow-raising statements:
But they never admitted whatever the other reasons were in the other seven cases, and tried to just lump them all together as performance-related decisions. And as recently as yesterday, I saw where Karl Rover gave a speech and tried to—ratify that suggestion once more. And—and that’s just simply not true. And he knows it.
And—and somebody has decided that if they try to continually talk about Bill Clinton firing 93 U.S. Attorneys, that will somehow you know, muddy this water up to where people can’t see anything. The truth is, what they have done here is unprecedented.
I accepted the decision. And I moved on without any complaint, as did all my seven colleagues. And no one spoke out. And you would not have me on the phone here today if they had not gone to Congress later and tried to avoid discussing very embarrassing—apparently very embarrassing things that went into these decisions, by trying to justify them by saying they were performance issues.
There was a time when I would say that that was a little bit too conspiratorial or a little too paranoid, and—and that it probably doesn’t reach so far to retaliate against somebody that conducted a corruption investigation, or to stop someone from conducting another one, or to punish somebody for not investigating a voter fraud case or a Democrat public corruption case. But at this point, the—the credibility of some of these people involved in this is so low that I wouldn’t—you know, I really wouldn’t wanna put my credibility on the line and tell you that it—that didn’t happen.
There are many more tidbits in the transcript that caused my jaw to drop. You cannot come away from reading this without understanding the depth and breadth of the wrongdoing in this whole scandal.
Here’s one more to get you clicking to the whole thing:
There’s an issue of right and wrong here that’s not political. It’s just about people. And—and they really oughta get right on this one issue. It won’t solve all their problems. But—it’ll solve their problem with me, ’cause they won’t ever hear from me again.
Bonus Link: Sen. Feinstein Drops Purge Bombshell — it seems that Sen. Feinstein can prove that Carol Lam’s firing had nothing to do with performance and everything to do with an investigation into Republican corruption.
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