A sealed indictment is "private, confidential, non-public"
So how does the Wheeling News-Register get a 1300 word article that features mostly Republican attacks?
The indictment against former president Donald Trump is sealed but that doesn’t prevent today’s Wheeling News-Register from giving local Republicans free reign to attack the prosecutor and Democrats. The top-of-the-front-page headline on this morning’s Wheeling News-Register reads:
Local, State Leaders Sound Off On Trump . . .
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Trump indicted and his West Virginia sycophants quickly respond
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was the first to respond:
Trump’s indictment is a travesty. This is a political prosecution. Period. #TrumpIndictment pic.twitter.com/oj9jgw78VT
— Patrick Morrisey (@MorriseyWV) March 30, 2023
Is it appropriate for the state's chief legal officer to comment on this without . . .
What has West Virginia’s governor, Jim Justice, been doing lately?
The Governor has had his wages garnished:
A bank has taken legal action to garnish the wages of Gov. Jim Justice in order to pay off an $850,000 civil judgment against one of his coal interests. https://t.co/ZThPJ27QiW
— Charleston Gazette-Mail (@wvgazettemail) March 28, 2023
What climate change? Last week, Justice rejected “ . . .
Responses to yet another mass shooting
From Tennessee and elsewhere
Tennessee’s current gun laws: lax
Gun laws in Tennessee have become less strict over the last few years after lawmakers approved legislation that removed requirements for permits and background checks.
— ABC News (@ABC) March 28, 2023
Here's what we know about gun laws in the state. https://t.co/UwUFvL5aua
Responses to the . . .
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An open question for the Wheeling Intelligencer: What is the limit -- what does Donald Trump need to do or say before you will criticize him?
Quite to the contrary, today’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial page demonstrates its support for his antisemitism
My previous post pointed to the racism and antisemitism that some of the leaders of the WV Republican Party have not-too-subtly embraced. Today, the Wheeling Intelligencer’s editorial page endorsed the antisemitism part by publishing this editorial cartoon by Gary Varvel:
Follow the Money: by Gary Varvel at CDN -
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Let the pandering begin: the leaders of the WV Trump Party get out their dog whistles to defend their party’s namesake
It’s all there: Soros-backed prosecutors, Stalin’s secret police, third world banana republic stuff, violent thugs roaming the streets, weaponizing the criminal code for political purposes, anarchy and corruption, political prosecution, a leftist Manhattan DA, and obviously, a gross miscarriage of justice
From WV District 2 Representative, Alex Mooney:
This is outrageous if true. The leftist Manhattan DA resembles Stalin’s secret police attacking only Republicans and letting crime explode. Harassing President Trump to distract from their own failures is the left’s plan. https://t.co/WYYZpFA9C9
— Rep. Alex Mooney (@RepAlexMooney) March 18, . . .
Senator Capito responds to the bankruptcy crisis: “Where were the regulators?”
You wonder where the regulators were, Senator? Haven’t you worked most of your career to get rid of them?
Here is WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito on WV Metro’s Talkline discussing the recent bank failures:
“Where were the regulators? The regulators had to be looking at the SVB bank and saying to themselves the average amount of insured depositors at that bank was less than 10 percent,” she said, contending that percentage should . . .
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