"Trump will get his comeuppance": Rep. Jamie Raskin promises consequences for Jan. 6

[Joinfortmill]

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/13/trump-will-get-his-comeuppance-rep-jamie-raskin-promises-consequences-for-jan-6/

...Jan. 6 as being in three rings of sedition,....There was the mob riot, which surrounded the ring of the insurrection....the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, the Aryan Nation, different white nationalist groups, the Militiamen, the First Amendment Pretorians, there were some religious cults in there.....the scariest ring was the innermost ring, the ring of the coup...

....this was a coup orchestrated by the president against the vice president and against the Congress. And the whole purpose was to get Mike Pence to declare lawless, extra-constitutional powers, to exclude and reject and repudiate Electoral College votes coming in from Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania to lower Biden's total from 306 to below 270.

[dem4decades]

1. I love Jamie but I don't share his optimism. I hope he's right.

[Magoo48]

20. Jamie is cool. I'll believe the other stuff when I see it.

[Chainfire]

2. What was the old commercial?

Talk, talk, talk. When do we eat?

[L. Coyote]

3. "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it tends toward justice. It's going to catch up ..."

...... people were on Garland's case about the fact that there had been no indictments for seditious conspiracy. And then there was a huge indictment on seditious conspiracy against the Oath Keepers, and presumably more to come. They obviously weren't the only group there. There were these overlapping circles of conspiracy to knock over the Capitol and take down our government. I mean, that was the interruption of the peaceful transfer of power, for the first time in American history, for four or five hours. And we didn't know which way it was going to go.

Trump will get his comeuppance. I know how maddening and frustrating it is to people. I share that feeling, having been an impeachment manager. I mean, he's as guilty as sin. He's a one-man crime wave, and it's amazing that his dad's money and this pack of lawyers he travels with have been able to get him off everything up until now. But I'm with Dr. King that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it tends toward justice. It's going to catch up with Donald Trump too. .........

[tavernier]

7. Only if the moral outnumber the immoral

Fingers crossed.

[KPN]

21. We outnumber them and they know it.

To this point at least, they feel more threatened than we do, and that’s what makes them so dangerous. My sense is with the possible exception of the would be oligarch’s who recruit and roil up their voters, they see us as the immoral side … and that compounds and complicated the danger.

Frankly, it’s disturbingly scary. I worry for my kids future (they are all solidly on the progressive side and one of them is gay).

[L. Coyote]

22. And the more radical their actions, the fewer their supporters. #FailedCoupGuy buried them.

There is no turning back the clock on their moment of infamy, they can't run from their own history. The noose at the Capitol, that symbolizes what they have done to themselves.

[onecaliberal]

25. Agreed. They know we outnumber them, hence the cheating. Acknowledging they can't win fairly.

[Joinfortmill]

8. He's on it.

[Traildogbob]

15. There is an

Evil Black hole, GQP donors, that is bending that arch like a black hole bends and sucks in light.

[MiHale]

17. Here's hoping it catches up to him ...

before St. Peter is the judge.

[Irish_Dem]

4. My Irish grandmother always said "talk is cheap."

[lefthandedskyhook]

5. fingers, toes, brain all crossed

superstition ain't the way

[tblue37]

14. Did you remember to cross your eyes, too?

[lefthandedskyhook]

27. umm

ok you win

[Budi]

6. If Rep Raskin says it, I believe it.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Ditto

And he understands our frustration. I think Q2 is going to be a very interesting time for America.

[Silent3]

10. I really like Raskin, but...

...having just watched "Love and the Constitution", where he expresses that he hoped for not just 67 votes to convict Trump during his impeachment, but 100, I suspect he occasionally has an excess of optimism and/or faith in our system.

I hope he's right. I can't share that degree of confidence, or even come close to it.

[Emile]

11. I wished Jamie Raskin was my congressman!

I really like this guy!

[calimary]

12. Make it so, Jamie.

Make it so. With teeth.

[ancianita]

13. DITTO!

[bucolic_frolic]

16. "Stand back and stand by"

It had meaning to those groups.

[ificandream]

18. Give the 1/6 committee time.

They'll get that SOB.

[Poiuyt]

19. The problem is that Raskin can only investigate

Any prosecution must come from the DOJ.

[wnylib]

23. Rankin cannot prosecute, but he

and others with him can exert a lot of pressure to prosecute, stirring up the public to demand the same.

I believe that there will be prosecutions of Trump and his crony thugs.

[malaise]

24. K & R

There will be consequences

[Cha]

28. KR TY