We haven't heard Republicans claim to be the party of law and order for a while now. Sure, they hint at it occasionally, but it's not part of their mantra like it used to be. If I'm not mistaken, Donald J. Trump, who is now facing 91 felony counts, started that whole thing with the GOP. In 2020, Trump said that Biden can't even say "law and order." Trump was, of course, impeached twice.
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that his party's impeachment effort against President Joe Biden is "exactly the opposite" of the Trump impeachment because Republicans stand for the "rule of law." Sure thing, buddy, even though, until Trump came along, no American president or former President had ever been indicted in U.S. history. But Republicans want us to believe that Trump's the victim.
"If you know I was on, I'm a lawyer, I'm a constitutional law attorney, I served on President Trump's impeachment defense team twice," Johnson said. "And we lamented openly, and we decried how the Democrats politicized that process. They were brazenly political in how they brought those meritless impeachment charges against the President."
"This, what you're seeing here, is exactly the opposite," he added. "We are the rule of law team. The Republican Party stands for the rule of law."
