I doubt this will make a seismic shift in the political tectonic plates of America, but Cowboys for Trump founder Cuoy Griffin has supposedly turned on Donald Trump over the Jan 6th Insurrection. No, Griffin is not angry that there was an insurrection. No Siree Bob! Griffin is pissed off that he was arrested for taking part in the insurrection! And his agony over this is especially pronounced because Trump failed to jail a certain politician during his four years as president!
"We supported President Trump because of his fight for justice as well. And for four years we cried, 'Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.' We know she's a criminal. What did the president tell us? 'If I was in charge of the law, you'd be in jail,'" Griffin said Sunday at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Mr. President, you've been in charge of the law for four years," he added. "At the end of your four year time, the only ones locked up were men like me, and others like me, that have stood by the president the strongest."
Emboldened is my doing.
So Hillary Clinton is free as a bird, and a poor old rodeo rider like Griffin may be headed for some time in the hoosegow! Well, I don’t know if he ever will see time in jail. Griffin claimed that prosecutors offered him a plea agreement.
District 2 Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, 47 of Tularosa claimed he was offered a plea agreement Aug. 9 in the federal trespassing case against him.
The Associated Press first reported the existence of the plea deal on Aug. 9, citing a court discussion.
But multiple requests for confirmation from Griffin's attorney's and those of the prosecution by the Alamogordo Daily News were not returned as of Wednesday.
How tough is this supposed plea agreement? Well,….
"There is absolutely a plea on the table," Griffin told Anthony Lucero of KALH in Alamogordo in an Aug. 10 broadcast.
"Just to briefly, kind of, hit on it: it would be a lowest class misdemeanor and it would entail no jailtime. It would entail probation. But I would have to confess to something that consciously I don't know if I can. That's where my struggle is right now."
It would be oh so tough for Griffin to admit that he was part of the insurrection. Given how lenient most of the insurrectionists have been treated, I’m afraid that Griffin may be correct that if he “confessed” to being an asshole in court he would walk free. But he also sounds arrogant enough not to take the deal, if it is legitimate.
This guy is a county commissioner in New Mexico. They tried to recall him, but they didn’t get enough signatures on the petition drive. So no recall for Griffin.