This story originally appeared in Salon.com 8-22-2014 http://www.salon.com/2014/08/22/oops_rick_perry_does_it_again_cant_remember_his_two_felony_charges/ Friday, Aug 22, 2014 10:18 PM UTC Oops! Rick Perry does it again, can’t remember his two felony chargesTexas governor travels to New Hampshire, dreaming of 2016, and incorrectly says he was indicted for "bribery"Rick Perry(Credit: AP/Kathy Willens) Speaking to business leaders in New Hampshire on Friday, where Texas’ Republican Gov. Rick Perry believes he’s running for President in 2016, he was asked about the two-count felony indictment filed by a grand jury against him last week. As ABC News tells the story:
It’s really not that complicated. The indictment was only two pages. I’m not an attorney, and I couldn’t tell you how strong the case against him is at this point. Some legal experts describe it as weak at best or otherwise questionably Constitutional, even as local Texas reporters in paper after paper insist the charges are far more serious than how they are being portrayed by national media. But, without going into the specifics of the case, for now, even I can read a two-page indictment and see that it has nothing to do with “bribery.” Surely Perry knows that, even as he’s pleaded “not guilty” to both counts, and has vehemently described the abuse of power charges filed by the grand jury under the auspices of a Republican judge and a special prosecutor who served under President George H.W. Bush, as a Democratic political hit job and an abuse of power in and of itself. (Apparently, he’s going with the “I know you are, but what am I?!” defense there.) |