Down To The Sunless Sea - Valley Republicans Shrug Off Trump's Indictments...

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Not a whimper. Not a defense, either. But not a sound at all. As if it never happened, as if it's not happening. Local Republicans are in a mood for sheltering-in-place. That killer legal tornado grabbing their party's leader by the jowls and ears will only dissipate.

If only!

Going full-turtle is not a good optic for area Republicans. They should say something. They should defend Donald J. Trump or issue some namby-pamby comment about how the justice system will take its course. But they're not doing either of those. They're staying quiet.

Have they now resigned themselves to the idea that the facts have driven every one of these indictments now hanging off Trump's fleshy neck? It would appear so.

Potential candidate Carlos Cascos, shown in photo above, may or may not be staring at a run at the 34th Congressional District seat. He's left Trump to fend for himself, choosing instead to today praise schoolteachers on his active Facebook page.

Lesser candidate Laura E. Cisneros also stayed on the pundit sidelines. She is warbling taxes and specifically property taxes. Nothing on Trump or his legal troubles from her mouth. She's a medical doctor with a credible brain, yet she parks it in her air-conditioned living room. Well, she was a Democrat as recently as the last election. Miss Cisneros (shown in photo below, at left) is a candidate for the 34th Congressional District seat (held currently by Democrat Vicente Gonzalez).

Of course, keeping your mouth shut is every rookie's best move.

Another candidate for that same post is similarly nouveau Republican Mauro Garza, the best-known nobody from Raymondville these days. He has made nary an inroad in the race, his campaign somewhere between sleepy and comatose. Anything on Trump, Mauro?

Nothing.

The noisiest candidate, one Mayra Flores (shown in photo above, at right), also has gone mum, although her crowing against all-things-Democrat is well-known and will soon be the violin, kazoo and washboard musical soundtrack for a minor, black & white motion picture, starring herself as the weather. The protean Miss Flores yesterday and today assailed Democrats for the actions of all of these district attorneys and federal Department of Justice prosecutors. They're to blame for Trump's indictments, not Trump.    

But perhaps we're being a bit harsh here.

Then again, maybe we're not...

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[EDITOR'S NOTE:...Yes, we should acknowledge that it is the MAGA Republicans, like Mayra Flores, who should be defending criminal Trump. Traditional Republicans like Carlos Cascos should get real and say something...]