DeLay: ‘Dangerous’ for Left to Use Courts to
Destroy Opposition
(Newsmax) – Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says
while he is relieved that he was “exonerated” by the Texas high criminal court
he is concerned about the left using the legal system to go after its
opponents.
“I had a great day yesterday in that the highest criminal
court in Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, upheld the ruling of the 3rd
Court of Appeals in that they totally exonerated me,” DeLay told J.D. Hayworth
on “America’s Forum” on Newsmax TV Thursday.
“They said that I should’ve never been charged in the first
place,” he explained. “They said that I shouldn’t have been indicted.”
“It was a great day,” he added. “Nine years of going through
this mess is over.”
The former Texas Congressman was charged in 2005 with money
laundering allegations and convicted in 2010 by a Texas jury. In 2013, the 3rd
Court of Appeals overturned that conviction, a decision which was
upheld Wednesday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
DeLay has said from the beginning that the allegations were
politically motivated.
“It took five years for me just to get to trial after being
indicted on a law that doesn’t exist in Texas,” he said. “Then, I was convicted
by a liberal jury from Travis County, not even my home county in Texas, and
sentenced to three years in prison.”
The former House Majority Leader credits his Christian faith
for helping him get through it.
The Texas Republican said that it’s a problem that the left
uses the court system to attack its opponents.
“Any ethics questions are just a detriment to the reputation
of that elected official” who is charged, DeLay explained.
“That’s what the criminalization of politics as a political
strategy is all about,” he said.
“The left just wants to get the headlines in the papers and
the top story on television that you’re a corrupt individual, and they go to
work on it,” he added.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Republican, was indicted in
August for abuse of power for allegedly using a funding veto with the
intention of forcing a local prosecutor to resign.
DeLay says that Perry “needs to understand this is a
political trial that he’s about to go through.”
“Hopefully the judge will throw all this nonsense out, but
Rick Perry is going through exactly what I went through with the same people,”
he explained.
“This is the criminalization of politics and it’s not just
Rick Perry,” the former congressman argues.
“I contend that Gov. Bob McDonnell in Virginia is going
through the same thing,” he said. “He may have done some stupid things, but he
didn’t do anything that was criminal.”
“Scott Walker is going through it, the governor of
Wisconsin,” DeLay explained.
“This is having a huge impact on our politics,” he contends.
“It puts the fear of God in elected officials — they don’t want to stand up and
fight for what they believe in because they’re scared to death they’ll get
their heads knocked off by going to prison and having their families
destroyed.”
“This is really, really dangerous what’s going on out
there.”
In a separate interview Thursday on “The Steve Malzberg
Show,” Delay said conservatives have been targets for unfair prosecution for
years.
“It’s just starting to elevate itself to a higher and more
visible office … This is a political strategy that the left imposes and when
they can’t beat you at the ballot box or beat you on the floor of some
legislature or beat you as a governor, this is what they do,” he said.
“I call it criminalization of politics. It’s a political
strategy and it’s undermining our system of government, it is deterring people
from running for office.
“It’s putting the fear of God in elected officials not to
stand on policy for fear of getting their heads knocked off. It’s an abuse of
power in our justice system to use the judiciary for political gain. But, it is
a political strategy and to be honest with you it’s working.”
Source:
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