4th and Inches said:
C. Jordan said:
4th and Inches said:
C. Jordan said:
Sam Lowry said:
If Trump knew there was likely to be violence, that's relevant to his intentions when he sent the crowd to the Capitol. Plus you've got the witness tampering, which is new information.
You also had Trump planning to lead a mob to the capital to disrupt a Congressional proceeding.
Cipalone was worried about that. But Trump planned to do it nonetheless.
The fact that he was stopped doesn't save him from a criminal conspiracy charge.
Trump himself will probably skate, but it appears Rudy, Meadows, Eastman, and others are in real trouble.
At the very least, today's testimony shows that the attack on the capital wasn't spontaneous, but planned. Probably coordinated by Rudy and others in the Trump gang.
great, now that you have tainted/biased the jury pool.. good luck with that
No. I assure you that there are a few people out there who never visit this thread.
LOL!
real courts dont work like political theater courts.. much like the nonsense cases Trump had post election, I see them struggle post hearings against a decent defense lawyer with any case arising from this
This is why the DOJ is taking its time. Looks like they're focusing on Eastman at the moment, who is a key figure in the effort to overturn the election.
I don't doubt that Trump will skate. For two reasons:
First, it would be a really bad look for the administration of one president to prosecute the preceding prescient, though he may be guilty as hell.
We would have had a test for this with Nixon, but Ford pardoned him shortly after taking office.
Second, Trump isn't excessively smart, but he's smart enough to avoid criminal liability. In all this, he can simply claim that some of his legal counsel told him the fraud was real and that he was acting within the law. Though the bulk of his counsel, plus Pence's counsel, plus the acting AG said all this was BS, he had Rudy and Eastman in his ear, telling him what he wanted to hear.
But his minions, like Rudy, Eastman, Flynn, Stone, Meadows, and others have a lot to answer for legally. They have no defense. In fact, Eastman admitted to Pence counsel that what he wanted the VP to do was both illegal and unconstitutional.
Then you have all the congresspersons in that December 21 meeting at the Oval Office with Trump. What did they conspire to do?
I always thought that Trump intended to march with his supporters to the capitol, but that someone or a group stopped him. Now we know he did indeed intend to at least ride along with the crowd and join them at the capitol. Maybe we'll learn later what he intended to do.
We know that he was fine to have armed people in the crowd because they weren't there to hurt him.
This revelation has made capitol police officers feel really good. "Blue lives matter." LOL.
We also learned that Rudy, Flynn, and Stone set up a "War Room" at a hotel on the night of Jan. 5 and that Meadows was in communication with him.
Maybe the most stunning moment for me was when Flynn was being deposed and was asked if he believed in the peaceful transfer of power, he pled the fifth. Here was a three-star general pleading the fifth on a basic question of our democracy.
And, as the Donald has said often, "Why do you plead the fifth if you're not guilty?"