Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trumphad criminally conspired to over the results of the 2020 election…
…Several Democrats who emerged from Smith’s interview said they could understand why Republicans did not want an open hearing based on the damaging testimony about Trump they said Smith offered.
The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said the Republican majority “made an excellent decision” in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly “because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the president and all the president’s men involved in the insurrectionary activities” of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021…
Holy shit this was not proof read lol.
“President Donald Trumphad criminally conspired to over the results of the 2020 election”
And despite that Trump was allowed to run for president!
It was obvious what Trump did, even if it wasn’t obvious how to prosecute it. Trump was obviously not eligible for election, but nobody did anything to stop him. And Jack Smith was delayed for years so he didn’t have a chance to get the case ready in time.
It almost seemed he was delayed on purpose!I’m never gonna miss a chance to say Go Fuck Yourself, Merrick Garland!
Fuck Biden for putting him there.
Yep. Merrick Garland enabled this whole fiasco. He’s either in on it or incompetent. Probably both.
And despite that Trump was allowed to run for president!
I wouldn’t want criminal charges from preventing someone from running for office. Otherwise someone like Trump, once in office, could just get his justice department to file charges against any candidate that he didn’t like. It is a failure on the part of the voters to have elected him despite the criminal charges (although not the only failure, certainly).
No dude. This wasn’t some made up charge for a bullshit crime. The fucking world saw what he said, what he did, and didn’t do, and multiple people died because of his actions. He should have been put in prison until his day in court, like anyone else would have been. Having the money to run for political office isn’t a means of avoiding justice
I agree. He should have been tried, and convicted, and put in prison. It was a miscarriage of justice that he was not. But even if all that had happened, it shouldn’t make someone ineligible for office, otherwise it could be abused by a corrupt government. Ideally it would make someone unqualified in the eyes of the electorate, but… well I wouldn’t count on it these days, unfortunately.
The US constitution disagrees with you. Specifically, the insurrection clause.
This isn’t even a hypothetical. There are countries, such as Russia, that actually do this.
And nothing will happen because the DNC is invested in not doing a fucking thing and fundraising instead.
Listen, we can’t waste valuable political capital chasing a has-been like Donald Trump… Or JD Vance or Pete Hegseth or Steven Miller, people who will never again haunt our political system once they’ve left office.
We need to focus on winning the War in Venezuela! And don’t forget the huge mess Trump left us with these undeported illegals. It’s time to finish the job the right way! We can do it if we all come together and agree to finally balance the budget with a few sensible cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
This is what the people wa-
One second. I’m being told there’s another mob of angry fascists outside the Capital Building trying to break in and lynch us, so they can install Peter Thiel as the Rightful Hier of the Eternal Christian Kingdom. We’re going to put together a focus group to see if we should stop them.
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Sorry you forgot to include “this is the most important election of our lifetime”
Baby raged in the first paragraph. Nice one.
And this is somehow helping? It’s just as bad as you claim they are.
The former special counsel cooperated with the congressional demand, though his lawyers noted that he had been volunteered more than a month before the subpoena was issued to answer questions publicly before the committee — an overture they said was rebuffed by Republicans. Trump had told reporters that he supported the idea of an open hearing.
Why is everyone, including y’all, so eager to treat this whole thing like it passes the sniff test? There’s a bipartisan effort going on here, that much is clear.
Maybe it’s a bunch of kiddie-diddlers trying to keep a lid on epstein, maybe it’s impending doom due to entry level jobs disappearing, but dammit can we stop talking about the dems as anything other than fellow professional wrestlers working over the marks?!
Raskin is being sarcastic. Don’t take the quoted bit to mean he really supports that decision.
I mean strategically good and morally good are often completely different.
And there was much rejoicing. Yay.
Why are we still on 2020?
Why aren’t we focusing on what he’s doing NOW and for the past few months?
And who’s going to impeach him when he’s probably going to be protected by a Republican majority?
This is all a nothingburger.
because this is researched, ready, has worked its way some of the way through courts, has strategy, etc
something new starts from scratch
pivoting all over the place is the point of the tactic: doing so many bad things that there’s nowhere for the opposition to focus
Our president violated criminal laws. It’s always the right time to focus on it until he’s behind bars. Giving in to gish galloping is how we lost in 2024, and how we continue to lose.
That is sort of their strategy. Every day is a new scandal, so why are you still thinking about what happened yesterday?
