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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe main reason ReTHUGs are defending Slobby
is that many of them were involved in the attempted coup/insurrection.
It is why they refused to support the establishment of a special Watergate type Committee. It is why they tried to fuck up the J6 Committee by selecting coup plotters to sit on it. Pelosi et al effed them up and changed many many minds.
Following the impressive J6 Committee hearings, similar consequences are coming for more than a few of them and their goons (some of whom are already in prison). Smelvis, the sick fuck Slobfather knows this and so do the rest of the ReTHUG leadership and their activists.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103098399/watergate-committee-hearings-may-be-both-an-inspiration-and-a-hard-act-to-follow
The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will begin public hearings on TV on Thursday night, eight days before we mark the 50th anniversary of the bungled burglary that gave a name to the biggest political scandal of its time Watergate.
That single word still reverberates in Washington, in the media and in history. It still has meaning among those who remember those times and those who value the separation of powers and the idea that the law applies to everyone even the president of the United States.
One big reason people remember Watergate is that the Senate eventually empaneled a special committee to look into the larger story behind that one burglary. And that committee's work played an enormous part in making Watergate what it became.
no_hypocrisy
(54,908 posts)If Trump's culpable, then so are they.
Lock them up
Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)They are defending themselves.
Many of them are guilty as hell.
malaise
(296,111 posts)Looks like Meadows was the smart one - he may have mowed all their meadows 😀😀😀
Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)When Cheney organized the J6 hearing against Trump.
The deal was that she could go ahead with it, in return no MOC would be named.
Maybe the DOJ went along with it too.
We know that Garland is so terrified of looking "political" that he gives
criminals a pass.
MyMission
(2,010 posts)"Mark Meadows Got Immunity to Testify"
headline I read earlier this morning here on DU.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218662567
Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)The traitor members of congress are free to keep committing treason.
PTL_Mancuso
(276 posts)Trump told DOJ to say election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and GOP, Jan 6 hearing told
Thats an exact quote from the president, yes, Mr Donoghue responded.
Please, oh, please DoJ, please be following up on this out to the rotten fruits of the GOPer vine.
Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)The DOJ knows exactly what happened and who did what.
The questions is can they do their jobs and start prosecuting the criminal members of congress?
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)Compromised DOJ, its fruits will blossom this spring, bloom this summer and bear witness this fall. The long lawless winter may end, some day, but it will be the cause much disruption. If it's painless, there are some still at large. We should learn from Watergate and Iran-Contra the value of thoroughness and the long-term costs of premature forgiveness.
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Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)If you can get immunity for any crime you ever commit, every mob boss in the country will run for president.
And we know the American voters will vote for them.
bamagal62
(4,503 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)A pardon is all the hope they have.
malaise
(296,111 posts)and the choir
Emile
(42,289 posts)to the insurrection they are not eligible to be in public office. Many members need to be removed from office immediately.
They all should be removed - no insurrectionists allowed
JT45242
(4,043 posts)They should be, but won't need to be because the sinister six will put party over country.
Beer bong, bribery bros, and the handmaid will ignore
1. Immediately after Jan 6, the R not involved called it an insurrection.
2. The declaration for the congressional medal to the capital police. 100-0 in the senate that they defended against an insurrection.
3. The Jan 6 committee
4. The Colorado hearings with witness that judge determined was insurrection
5. Other state officials investigation that ruled it was an insurrection.
Alito et al will pretzel logic something to protect the party bought and paid for by their chief bribers.
malaise
(296,111 posts)Martin68
(27,749 posts)immunity.
Harker
(17,785 posts)and there will likely be a great deal of sweet singing.
gab13by13
(32,321 posts)Everybody's brother and sister knows what Scott Perry did. Yeah, yeah, the FBI seized his phone, couldn't access it for over a year, then was given partial access. How long ago was that?
Loudermilk gave a Capitol tour to insurrectionists, from what I understand he was only questioned by Capitol police, not by the FBI.
Why should members of Congress be worried about being prosecuted when Scott Perry was appointed the head of the Freedumb caucus where he proceeded to investigate the FBI for crying out loud.
Donald Trump is a Putin puppet and members of Congress know this. Congressional Magats defend Citizen Trump because they are afraid of him both physically and politically.
Did anyone see what Senator James Lankfort from Oklahoma said yesterday? He was pushing for the Senate border bill. Lankfort said that he was told by Jesse Kelly, who does a 3 hour right wing radio broadcast, that if he pursued the border bill that the anchor will destroy him.
Putin and Trump who takes orders from Putin will never pass any bill that has funding for Ukraine. Democrats could write up a bill with money for 300 miles of border fence but if it includes money for Ukraine it will never pass.
I understand getting death threats for speaking truth to power, it happened to me a long time ago. Congressional Magats support Trump because they are afraid of him. Romney said it in his book, Senators voted not to convict Trump during impeachment out of fear. Romney told us why they support Trump. Romney himself, because he voted to convict Trump spent millions of dollars for his personal security.
Occam's Razor - Congressional Magats support Trump out of fear.
malaise
(296,111 posts)Lock the all up
sop
(18,621 posts)Trump has made it abundantly clear any Republican who stands up to him will be primaried and voted out. And it's not just over the 1/6 stuff, anything Trump sees as an act of disloyalty will get them thrown out of office. Ask Flake, Corker, Cheney, Kinzinger and a few others what happened to them when they took a stand against Trump.
Farmer-Rick
(12,667 posts)I would simply add that behind the curtain you will find the American Billionaires. They are pushing to turn the US into a dictatorship or a more easily controlled oligarchy. So, the filthy-rich are all good with insurrection.
2naSalit
(102,793 posts)None of them qualify for office and are unfit as well. They plotted and participated.
iluvtennis
(21,497 posts)Alice Kramden
(2,951 posts)That's a DUzy!
malaise
(296,111 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,395 posts)Traitors.
malaise
(296,111 posts)CaptainTruth
(8,200 posts)...they want to avoid being labeled a RINO by the MAGAt crowd, which, in their minds, could endanger their reelection chances.
malaise
(296,111 posts)But they fear prison
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)It doesn't take much to get them to sell their souls.
Historic NY
(40,037 posts)The semantics of the word insurrection vs coup, it all was still an organized conspiracy.
Some already convicted and sentenced stated it was and were sentenced as such.
malaise
(296,111 posts)The media should be calling them out way more
Rec
Johonny
(26,178 posts)With little interest in actual politics of the United States other than the fame, power, and money it brings them.
malaise
(296,111 posts)and con artists