“There is nothing normal about this. This is not Venezuela. This is not El Salvador at the peak of criminality. This is America. And there are so many blatant violations to this that every person sees this.
“I’ve been talking to people all day that have been waiting for this decision, that are devout Trump haters and they are like, yeah, I think this is a little bit crazy. And even they are worried about what this does to our institutional fortitude in America.
“This is a horrific day. I cannot imagine. But the other thing too, is you now have 12 jurors that basically are going — look, we’re going to find out who these jurors are in the next 24 hours. Some are going to speak, some are not going to speak.
“But you’ve ruined their lives, Alvin Bragg. They can never hold a normal job again. They can never go anywhere without worry about being harassed.” – Carl Higbie.
From Wikipedia:
In 2018, Higbie was forced to resign as the Chief of External Affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service (an organization which runs AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, Senior Corps, and other national service initiatives), a position to which Trump had appointed him. His ousting occurred after CNN discovered Higbie’s racist and inflammatory remarks (on a 2013 radio talk show) about Black Americans, Muslims, women, LGBT people, veterans suffering from PTSD, welfare recipients, and immigrants, which included suggesting withdrawing the right to vote from welfare recipients, and advocating free rein for all to go and shoot undocumented immigrants at the southern USA border. Higbie had also repeatedly stated his belief that Barack Obama is Muslim and not a U.S. citizen.
#FLASHBACK to January 2017 when this Trump surrogate (Carl Higbie) appeared on Fox News to say that Trump-era immigration policy might rely on the precedent of Japanese internment camps.
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