Rachel Alexander remains the greatest champion in the ConWeb of corrupt ex-congressman Steve Stockman. As she has before, she’s been trying to get Stockman sprung from prison — where he’s currently residing after getting convicted on a passel of wire fraud and money laundering charges — due to the coronavirus pandemic, and manufacturing conspiracy theories in the process.
In her Aug. 3 WorldNetDaily column, Alexander complained that one prison released a convicted murderer (not mentioning the fact that murderers are least likely to repeat the crime again), then once again pushed Stockman’s sob story:
In contrast, conservative former Congressman Steve Stockman of Texas has been prohibited from leaving prison, despite the fact he is in his 60s and has diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, asthma and more. Every single inmate over 60 who has diabetes in his federal prison in Beaumont, Texas, has been allowed to leave for home arrest except him. Now he’s contracted COVID-19.
Stockman has found out that high-level bureaucrats within the Bureau of Corrections are the ones preventing him from leaving. He is trying to alert Attorney General William Barr to his situation.
Alexander rehashed her conspiracy theory that Stockman is innocent and “was targeted by left-wing DOJ prosecutors in the Obama administration because he was an outspoken conservative who went after Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder and Lois Lerner.”
In her Aug. 17 column, Alexander kept up the sob story, repeating her lament that “crooked bureaucrats at the Bureau of Prisons will not allow him to move to home confinement, despite the fact he is over 60 years old and has diabetes and other health problems.” She highlighted a Supreme Court appeal Stockman is making of his conviction, then disclosed something interesting:
Many of the same nonprofit leaders and a few others associated with them (including myself) just signed on to an amicus curiae brief from American Target Advertising, written by Richard Viguerie’s attorney Mark Fitzgibbons, supporting Stockman’s petition. They lay out three clear areas of abuse in Stockman’s case.
If Alexander is presenting herself as a journalist — her WND bio lists her links as an editor for various conservative websites — why is she personally inserting herself into Stockman’s legal proceedings? Seems more than a bit dishonest.