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By HOPE YEN WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Nemo
Ginnie, let me give you the best free legal advice you’re ever going to get: Get yourself a really great criminal defense attorney. You’re going to need it.
No, Clarence doesn’t count.
lincolnman
I doubt if Pence would show - he has already sent his Chief of Staff and senior counsel, so we know he's cooperating, but going in person would just bring more nooses and gallows outside every place he shows up...
Ginni Thomas is a special kind of MAGA-warrior. Here she was, wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice, actively involved in the coup to name fraudulent electors and phony certification lists. She needs to sit in the dock under oath and answer questions....
Uh-oh....expect a MAGA-meltdown...imagine we'll hear more about Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, and Chinese thermostats....
Not content with corrupting just the Executive Branch, Trump and MAGA-world then tried to corrupt the Judicial Branch...
The Jan 6th committee is showing all Americans what a criminal the previous President and his cabal of kooks from "Team Crazy" were - and how they tried to trample all over our Constitution...
The Avenger
Following the evidence, it is time to charge Trump with seditious conspiracy. To uphold the rule of law there must be criminal accountability and not for just for the insurrection's pawns (some of these are already paying for their gullibility).
The damage that the Malignant Narcissist - together with a supporting cast of disgraceful Republican toadies - has done to American democracy is already extreme and it is ongoing.
Strangerland
It seems that a couple days before each hearing, we start to get teasers on what’s coming next. I’m guessing Tuesday will be about Ginni.
Sh1mon M4sada
Amazing, it's as if US politicians is not responsible for anything else than to put holes in each other. Inflation rising, supply chain in tatters, China moving into Indo Pacific, a war in Eastern Europe, a lingering pandemic, and they spend their time languishing in a political protest. The champion of democracy and free speech snuffing out protest, because it's a protest against politicians. LOL.
SuperLib
Keep hosing them off and putting them into cages. That's where The Big Lie supporters deserve to be.
stormcrow
If Ginni Thomas is involved, and it certainly looks like she is, then it’s really hard to believe that her husband US Supreme Court justice Thomas isn’t also involved. Shocking.
lincolnman
Not surprising....
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/6-10-americans-trump-charged-130009380.html
Of course, that won't stop the rallies and upcoming 2024 announcement....there's a lot more than $250 million to fleece from the flock yet....
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105279623/jan-6-committee-trump-campaign-legal-defense-fund
Blacklabel
yeah 554 people surveyed with a 4.5% margin of error.
Had to make a quick survey to match the article that was already written before the survey even happened.
thought you didnt "do" polls and surveys?
Blacklabel
Yet people who arent even following this believe it is fair and impartial.
How would they know?
Strangerland
No, you guys have been saying the polls cannot be trusted ever since Trump "won" (except that the people didn't actually want him) in 2016.
Weird that you already forgot that. It's not that long ago. Memory problems?
Attilathehungry
...and all this by a Committee that isn't even considering asking for a criminal case to be started. Sorry, Trump may have been delusional but not criminal. Going after a president requires a totally watertight case- if that doesn't exist, the case won't be brought. The precedents it may set are too great to tamper with unless the case is a stone cold winner.
These riots were just the culmination of months of political violence in the US, starting with the George Floyd rioting and looting in the summer of 2020 and extending to January 6. A rather heated election year, exascerbated by a pandemic. And we cna see the violence continuing with the attempted assassination of a Supreme Court Justice.
Strangerland
How could they? You do realize that committees are given an outline of their objectives right? And that having a criminal case isn't part of that, and therefore they have no ability to do so?
Maybe you people should try reading up on the specifics so you don't look so silly be exposing yourself for your ignorance by making statements that show you to not know what you're talking about.
Blacklabel
yet the committee CAN refer to DOJ. they have not, and will not. Their chairman said so.
Strangerland
No.
Blacklabel
they can in fact do so. they wont.
Strangerland
no.
SuperLib
They don't have that authority. Only the DOJ can bring charges so their audience is Garland.
Nah, he broke the law when he knowingly asked Pence to break the law. Even Eastman was asking for "one small violation" from Pence, then he asked for a pardon.