Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase | CNN Politics

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[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I thought they presented and excellent case showing there was no crime and the whole thing to be a tax-payer defrauding politicized grasping at straws. Nothing they presented is even close to prosecutable, from what I saw.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

You think that those crimes aren't prosecutable?

Can you clarify why not?

Expert legal opinion seems to be that if they can show criminal intent, then he'll go down for 6 years or 20 if he's charged under terrorism laws.

And I think the table of what trump was told, and what trump later lied about in the executive summary of the January 6 commission report does a spectacularly meticulous demonstration of that.

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You charge Trump with so much is a parking ticket and there will be no more United States of America. What’s happening in Brazil is going to happen here. Trump will be president for life and all who stand in the way of him obtaining the absolute power he has earned the right to wield will be destroyed for treason.

Not only that, but everybody who persecuted the freedom fighters of January 6 will be arrested and executed for terrorism. Stolen elections justify insurrections, especially when they are stolen to wage war against people of color in the name of white supremacy and stealing oil and land that rightfully belongs to people of color. Trump is the only good president we have ever had or ever will have. There is nothing wrong with using forced to take back a stolen election. It’s in the constitution. It’s part of the well regulated militia part of the second amendment. Everything done to the capital on January 6 by those courageous freedom fighters was made legal by every single solitary United States coup since the end of World War II. You reap what you sow, you fucking terrorist traitor.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You charge Trump with so much is a parking ticket and there will be no more United States of America.

.... because having someone above the law is a foundation stone of the USA?

Most people would say that's the other way around.

What’s happening in Brazil is going to happen here.

That is that other way around.

Trump will be president for life and all who stand in the way of him obtaining the absolute power he has earned the right to wield will be destroyed for treason.

Okay. You got me.

But there are people here who believe shit very close to that.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We know politics can find 15 intelligence sources to flat out lie to the public and it is no small feat to find one lawyer to give a good biased spin. They didn't even show causation, rather on criminal intent. Bipartisan protesters stormed the US Capitol because they were upset at election concerns they felt were ignored and refused to be investigated. If you don't take election concerns seriously, they you are going to have a bad time in government.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They didn't even show causation, rather on criminal intent.

Causation? You think that Trump pushed the big lie about the stolen election, but it wasn't him doing it?

Bipartisan protesters stormed the US Capitol because they were upset at election concerns they felt were ignored and refused to be investigated.

That's not in line with what we know. Far right christian terrorists stormed the capital in response to Trump's call for them to be there. With the intent of disrupting the election certification, and the peaceful transfer of power. They showed up with AR-15s, and Trump attempted to have the metal detectors removed so that they could march on the capital armed.

If you don't take election concerns seriously, they you are going to have a bad time in government.

The January 6 commission details the lies Trump spread to incite "election concerns". It is clear that he knew they were lies. You should know that too.