Another thing that we are going to see when Trump gets indicted for seditious conspiracy, is a lot of congressional Republicans are going to be charged as well. Because this was a broadly coordinated coup attempt. The ones that gave tours of the Capitol the day before to the insurrectionists…The one who texted out Nancy Pelosi‘s location during the siege…The one who ripped out the panic buttons from democratic offices in the capital…The ones active on Twitter with the coordination among the insurrectionists in the weeks leading up to the insurrection… They all think they are getting away with it. Just like all of those white supremacists putting their feet on Nancy Pelosi‘s desk thought they were going to get away with it.
Mitt Romney Tweet on the indictment. Well spoken. Trump brought this on himself by refusing to cooperate with the Feds and not returning the documents. And if the allegations are true, these are very serious charges, and Trump is a danger to national security
Yep. That’s how he hires all his help. That’s how we got Barr as AG. He got the sycophantic yes man Jeff Sessions, but then it got to a point where session said, “No sir, I am not going to risk prison to break the law for you on that level.” Bill Barr says, “Hey, I’ve been doing it my whole career,” only he is intelligent and cagey enough to know when to cut and run. When Trump started plotting the insurrection, Barr said, “Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. GOODNIGHT!” and distanced himself from Trump like he was a social disease.
And here’s something that I hope our Republican friends realize: Republicans get away with lying nonstop on TV and radio, because they’re not under oath. And that’s how that works. But not when you were under a criminal investigation. When you are being investigated, every single thing you say publicly can be used against you. When he went on live television and bragged about keeping classified documents that he knew he wasn’t allowed to keep, and he put it in those terms, and said he couldn’t show them to the interviewers because they’re classified (contradicting his lie that he declassified them), and talked about how unfair it is that they confiscated the documents because he was going to sell them for a lot of money, like he said Nixon did…Every word of that is admissible in this prosecution. Not only is it admissible, it is extremely damning. Anything that proves or demonstrates knowledge of guilt is about the most damning thing you can present against the defendant in court.
Equal Justice under the law. That's all I want. Multiple Democrats have mishandled classified documents, only Trump was indicted. Multiple Democrats have moved immigrants without help from the feds and likely without the consent of the migrants, yet only DeSantis is threatened with indictment. We see the double standard. We will remember it. And I won't be the guy saying "ra ra, lock him up," but you won't see me defending any Democrat who is defending these indictments now, if the law comes after them, that's just karma.
Exactly. Not only did the evidence have to be a slam dunk, the crime would have to rise to the very highest level of offenses.
I'd say that I want a little more than equal justice under the law, I'd like everyone to stop breaking it just because they think they can because they happened to be in a political office at one point.
And also a blueprint to how a foreign aggressor could cripple our power grid, leaving us vulnerable to every nature of attack.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Joe Biden will be indicted after he leaves office. I don't know how, when, or where. But there will be enough evidence to suggest Joe Biden committed some crime, and he will be indicted, and I won't want to hear a peep from any of you. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. These are the new rules now.
Oh bullshit. Stop trying to be the center of attention. I loathe that you are pulling out the cheap rhetorical tricks again. Giving trump cover via the euphemism of "mishandled" is plain ole silly and you know it. As many others have noted on this thread, it's trump's response after NARA and the DOJ contacted him that is different. Or did you not even read the indictment. Immigrants is a red herring. Deplorable.
Dead giveaway of a cult member: thinks they know some cache of secret esoteric information, that the whole rest of the world doesn’t…sans any proof or evidence…and keeps insisting that everyone will see the light once some Mail oval future revelation occurs…with zero reason to think that will ever happen.
I think that was background to explain the severity of why they are bringing this case. The indictment tells a story of a guy, after heatedly campaigning against the reckless executive handling of confidential information, that recklessly handled and stored highly sensitive and confidential information, and even brought ‘em out from time to time to brag about himself. And then, when we was caught with the documents, embarked upon an intentional scheme to obfuscate and lie, informally and formally. That’s what in the indictment is about (and thank goodness it wasn’t something worse, like his sale of information to our enemies). And it seems like he was caught red-handed, on tape and through sworn statements. The question really is this — how much do we really believe that nobody is above the law?!?! Because forgetting all of the rhetoric, Trump had demonstrated an inability to be constrained by law.
