Democrat Charles Rangel, a disgraced member of the House of Representatives, is pulling out all of the stops to make himself appear as egotistical and corrupt as possible. After demanding that his ethics trial be delayed, Rangel left the hearing abruptly, stating that he was not given enough time to hire a legal team for himself.
Of course, Rangel's claim is simply a lie, as his legal team quit two months ago after a debate over strategy. Most likely, the team realized how corrupt Rangel was and wanted to go one way. The corrupt Rangel wanted to go another, and his lawyers just quit.
This meant that today, at the beginning of Rangel's legal hearings, that he had no legal representation. Of course, since his lawyers quit two months ago, he had plenty of time to assemble more people. Either Rangel could not get anyone to accept his case or he intentionally did not hire anyone in hopes that the court would delay the hearing. They did not, so Rangel walked out.
On November 2, despite the tremendous political pressure on him because of the ethics trial and the clear corruption evident, Rangel was reelected by a large margin. In fact, Rangel won 81% of the vote in his district, a tremendous amount by any standard.
In court, Rangel faces a tremendous amount of counts against him, including over one dozen charges of financial and fundraising misconduct. To think that he can simply pout and walk away from his hearing shows that Rangel is in over his head.
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Just keep walking Charlie...and don't come back.
ReplyDeleteRangel is a huge embarrassment. Unfortunately his district will always vote for him, if for no other reason, the "man" is persecuting him.
ReplyDeleteWonder what benefit Ranel gets from a delay...you'd think the deck would be stacked more in his favor during the lame duck session as opposed to more adversarial Congressmen getting sworn in a few weeks down the line
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