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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Proud Boys verdict boosts Justice Dept in Trump probe
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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HonestDictator
The DoJ isn't going to play around. Hopefully Trump and fiends (no "r") will be held accountable for their attack an American democracy, and our constitutional rights.
EFD
AG Garland yesterday made the rare public statement yesterday after the verdict saying (not an exact quote, apologies) "3 juries have now have now held those responsible for January 6th accountable and OUR WORK CONTINUES."
Garland is coming and he's not moving down the chain. He's moving up.
This means you Ruddy, Sydney, Mike Flynn, Mark Medows. And yes, This means Cheeto jesus.
The boots have been and are now being held to account. Next come the suits.
EFD
The money/kill shot quote:
Donald J. Trump, if you thought E. Jean Carole made your life unpleasant, just sit tight. You haven't seen anything yet.
wallace
Long prison terms coming.
EFD
The not so proud anymore boys can join Elmer Rhoads in and his "Oaf Creepers" in Trump tower Leavenworth for a decades long stay.
Get comfy, "bois", you're going to be there a while.
And if someone at DOJ offers you a shorter term in exchange for critical info on the insurrectionist in chief, take it. He's not coming to your rescue even if he were to be elected (he's not), and he wouldn't hesitate to throw you under the bus to save himself.
dagon
In before the usual " but what about the Dems, the left, BLM, ANTIFA"...
And it touches upon the stuttering of "the left" for any and all pushback against Trump and conservative policies.
I would reckon that out of all those who post on these threads critiquing Trump the label "the left" would only apply to me. You wouldn't know that by the way the term is thrown around so haphazardly.
Most posters here not MAGA, anti-vax or Putin trolls seem to be fairly conservative or traditional old school liberals.
Of course the reason is the same as with Trump's constant name-calling. There is a profound lack of substantive logical argument to refute others assertions in debate so this tactic is a megaphone that can reach a certain audience.
Trump famously told the Proud Boys in a debate to "stand by" and we he told them to fight on Jan. 6 they did.
ANTIFA or such actual "leftists" or as likely to flip the bird to any marching orders from Biden or the Dems as from Trump.
One of the key American social problems is labeling anything other than gun-toting, fundamentalist corporate profit worshiping as an enemy and "the left".
wallace
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.
RKL
So it wasn't Trump after all.
bass4funk
Hardly
The Senate doesn’t look good for the GOP going into 2024 and should the GOP retake the Senate the Dems are in a world of hurt, Garland knows this, so the pendulum swings both ways ALWAYS. Go for it Garland. You want to make this political, fine.
Rodney
20 years and he wasn’t even in that state.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Conspire to commit a crime and it is the same as committing the crime itself. Trump should also be considered as having conspired in this.
EFD
This has as much to do with anything as you know about American jurisprudence. Which is to say not a thing.
This is criminal, not political. You are attempting to make it political because the law, the facts and the momentum are all going against you and your narcissistic sociopath.
EFD
Yeah, if that helps you exist in objective reality, keep telling yourself that.
Meanwhile "Our work continues" says America's tip law enforcement officer.
UChosePoorly
We don't look too kindly on seditious conspiracy. Does your home country take it lightly?
EFD
You notice that it doesn't argue the facts or the law.
It just warns "If you hold Trump to account and the GQP wins the Senate, THEN you'll be sorry! In essence this is a threat of political retribution against the DOJ for enforcing the law.
And then it accuses others of trying to " make it political".
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 08:08 am JST
Your whole judiciary is inherently "political."
wallace
Trump was the ringleader.
Superlib
Keep locking these losers up. I'm lovin' it!
EFD
3 different juries have found these goobers guilty of sedition and other serious crimes for which they are going to jail for a VERY long time.
Guess the juries were political too, eh?
plasticmonkey
Indictments have to be built on evidence, not just retribution fantasies.
There’s plenty of evidence against Trump. Gym Jordan ‘n’ little friends have zilch. Just look at the record.
RKL
I'm with ya--Summer of 2020 and violent BLM protesters--throw away the key.
Mentally deranged on NY subways---mete out the punishment.
EFD
And under "the hits just keep on coming for Cheeto Jesus", his deposition was made public today.
THAT'S not a good look.
AND, 8, (EIGHT!) fake electors have just agreed to an immunity feel in exchange for their testimony in GA.
I bet that's" political " too.....
bass4funk
You would think so.
Where, what? 7 years and investigation after investigation, special counsel, impeachments, acquittals….yeah, sure…evidence…ok
Ahhh, like with Trump, that’s what I mean!
I think YOU need to look at the record. Lol
Simon Foston
EFDToday 09:11 am JST
They certainly were in Trump's two Senate impeachment trials.
RKL
How come liberals are getting so triggered by this?
wallace
If they have a case why do they have to wait until 2024 and the "administration is gone?"
By the election, these people will be abandoned and forgotten. Canon fodder.
wallace
How come repubs are getting so triggered by this?
bass4funk
Which folded like soufflé
By the Dems, I won’t argue with you on that.
RKL
They aren't. And this is an issue for Americans.
Go prepare for the King's coronation, or check out a Monty Python movie.
DS.
wallace
ROFL! Broken clock again.
EFD
Its the pure joy of seeing justice done to seditionist traitors who will get what's coming to them for their explicitly stated and poorly executed plan to overthrow American democracy.
Its also the determination to see the insurrectionist in chief who planned and instigated the failed coup held to account.
And if you think we are determined, just wait until you meet one J. Smith.
You're going to LOVE him.
bass4funk
Like Weismann? Lol, sure! Go for it.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 09:31 am JST
Because of the Republican majority. Had the Senate been under Democrat control the jury would have been "political" too but I don't think you would have liked the verdicts so much.
Desert Tortoise
Evidence that will withstand cross examination in a jury trial takes a lot longer to gather than the crap the My Pillow Man threw up on the screen during is symposium "proving" election fraud. How many years did it take to finally take down Al Capone?
Bob Fosse
“federal prosecutors, using his words, won a conviction on the most serious charge levied in the insurrection.”
Heard so many times from you know who that this would never happen. But it happened. Well, well.
bass4funk
Not an insurrection, even the DOJ said so under oath.
Really?
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/02/the-street-violence-and-gunplay-started-with-the-left-not-the-right/
I ask myself the same question
Bob Fosse
lol, sure, ‘triggered’.
lincolnman
Convicted of sedition - that's 14 now...
How many times have I read posts from our MAGA-friends here saying "no sedition".... More words they have to eat....and speaking of eating their words;
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-fox-news-jan-6-supercut_n_645473b8e4b0e58960e34b3d
ROFL...once again Fox News proves they deceive, you believe...
BINGO!
Double BINGO!
And besides this, we learn that Jack Smith has an insider from Mar-A-Lago that is spilling the beans on how Trump tried to obstruct the investigation into his classified steal and stash. And we learn that Smith is looking to add mail fraud to the list of charges for Trump trying to fund raise off his Big Lie...
Run for President? By 2024 Trump will be sitting in a cell at Rikers Island or one of Putin's dachas in Russia...
bass4funk
I don’t see the Capone correlation, funny but yeah, anyway things will be a lot easier for these guys to sue the government and if I were them I would milk it dry. They just need to wait, we’ll get through this two years (hopefully, God willing)
stormcrow
But, but, but according to Fox News the Proud Boys were just a group of angry tourists who got lost when they were visiting Washington D.C.
lincolnman
https://www.yahoo.com/news/barr-trump-deliver-chaos-horror-202822742.html
What a ringing endorsement from his former "hand-picked" AG....who in Trump's own words is; “one of the most respected jurists in the country, highly respected lawyer, former attorney general under the Bush administration, a terrific man, a terrific person, a brilliant man,”
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/william-barr-attorney-general-nomination/index.html
ROFL...
Cards fan
Just sedition. No big deal, right?
bass4funk
No, even that.
wallace
The seditious conspiracy guilty verdicts.
It sure is.
EFD
So an insurrection against the government of the United States as determined by a jury (multiple juries) of their peers.
Legally, they are insurrectionists.
ulysses
The proud boys conviction is much more significant than people realize. People who were not in DC on Jan 6 were convicted, that opens up the way to charge and convict donald.
No surprise he’s scared and waddled back to talk to his lawyers.
bass4funk
Then if that were true they would have been charged accordingly, but since they weren’t…I don’t like Garland, never did and I’m glad we dodged that bullet of him sitting on the SC bench, but thankfully that didn’t happen but even he knows it wasn’t an insurrection legally. Because he knows Democrats are not going to be in power forever, and he knows the implications of charging them with that crime, because I can come right back around and bite him and the Democrats, so as bad as he is, the man is not dumb.