Obama declared war on coal, targeted conservative CEO Blankenship, sent inspector goons in with a mission to create a ruckus. They cut the oxygen in half and tried to blame the workers. When that didn’t work out, they railroaded Blankenship to prison who finally beat the fake charges.
See Lurkinanloomin part one post. Better yet here it is at the time Blankenship clears his name.
https://youtu.be/X8xu547cxGo?t=175
The other posters ranting against Blankenship have their butt fudge packed hard. They are not credible. The only credible concern is that the Manchin democrat machine and the McConnell treachery will torpedo Blankenship but WVA voters may prevent that because they know Blankenship is of their DNA; they bond to him because he knows his stuff regardless if he got railroaded like Dinesh D’Souza.
Trump is justifiably concerned. He can’t have a repeat of Roy Moore.
My take is that Jenkins, Morrisey ain’t got the right stuff in them. They will lose to Manchin. Morrisey has a glimmer of light but it’s not solid and it’s not bright. Jenkins, fuggedaboudit.
See Lurkinanloomin part one post. Better yet here it is at the time Blankenship clears his name.
I watched part of that video. The man says the explosion happened 8 hours after Government inspectors cut the Airflow in half. He said the mine had been operating for 17 years without an explosion, and once the government inspectors cut the airflow, *that* is what caused the explosion.
Is this true? This sounds like something government and especially the Idiot Obama government would pull.
Trump is justifiably concerned. He can’t have a repeat of Roy Moore.
There is no means of stopping liberal kooks from making unprovable accusations against someone. What could have been stopped was efforts by Republican party office holders (Richard Shelby, Jeff Flake et al) from stabbing Moore in the back.
Part of what destroyed Moore is the party behaving as if they accepted the accusations as true. Had they either done nothing, or said the whole thing was bullsh*t and they weren't going along with it, Moore would have won.
How did he clear his name?
He spent a year in prison and the 4th Circuit and the USSC rejected his appeal.
The conviction stands.