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kpete's JournalTrump again today said "there were no guns" at the US Capitol attack. BULLSHIT-It was an armed insurrection.
Trump again today said “there were no guns” at the US Capitol attack.
There are in fact multiple Jan 6 defendants who were accused of having guns who have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1755651678777274785?s=20
https://x.com/FBI/status/1541119145105833991?s=20
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/06/15/fact-check-were-firearms-other-weapons-capitol-jan-6/7621149001/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/january-6-armed-insurrection-congress-guns-trump-lie/
Republicans Admit in Private They Killed a Good Deal
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) told the New Republic that his Republican colleagues have privately confessed that the now-dead immigration deal was the toughest one they’d ever get.
In an extraordinary spectacle, virtually all Senate Republicans joined together Wednesday to block a bipartisan bill that would have given Republicans much of what they wanted on border security. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. We talked to Democratic Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, who conferred with Republicans throughout this process. He opened up about what Republicans said behind closed doors, noting that they privately admitted that this bill was “aligned with their view of what would be useful for securing the border.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/178860/republicans-border-deal-michael-bennet
https://politicalwire.com/2024/02/08/republicans-admit-in-private-that-they-killed-a-good-deal/
Liz Cheney: Trump knows what his own WH staff, DOJ appointees, campaign officials, etc told the 1/6 grand jury.
Donald Trump knows what his own
WH staff, DOJ appointees, campaign officials, etc told the 1/6 grand jury. Trump is trying to delay the trial to prevent those witnesses from testifying in open court. Americans have a right to hear from those witnesses now.
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1755563246235357671
STATE OF THE UNION -The perfect opening for Biden to go on the attack regarding the Republicans's naked hypocrisy.
Biden needs to rise up here. The State of the Union address will take place March 7. That’s the biggest audience he’ll have until his convention speech this summer, and he needs to use the occasion to drive home the Republicans’ naked hypocrisy. He should spell out all the strict provisions of the bill that made it a very tough sell to many members of his own party. He was willing to take some political heat to accept a compromise—one that included a number of Republican priorities—just to do something about the problem. And the Republicans killed it. They’ll boo him. Let them. It’ll be great theater, and to those few thousand Great Lakes voters, the Republicans will look ridiculous.
https://newrepublic.com/article/178775/republicans-kill-border-deal-own-crisis
Charles P. Pierce: Trump's Lawyers Need a New Box of Crayons.
The System Is Gearing Up.
For once, sanity and common sense are singing in tune, a rare melody in this cacophonous time.
There was a time in our history, and not so very long ago, that the evaporation of a ludicrous legal claim in a federal appeals court would not rate a box on page 21 of the Metro section. But this is not then, so when El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago brought his ludicrous claim on limitless presidential immunity before the D.C Court of Appeals, and when, after a substantial (and nerve-wracking) delay, the Court on Tuesday left that claim a pile of smoking meat on a back road, it was a veritable legal earthquake. Three women on the bench looked at the exalted claims of a guy who already has been judged a sexual predator and laughed in his face. From the decision:
Since then, hundreds of people who breached the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have been prosecuted and imprisoned. And on August 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C., former President Trump was charged in a four-count Indictment as a result of his actions challenging the election results and interfering with the sequence set forth in the Constitution for the transfer of power from one President to the next. Former President Trump moved to dismiss the Indictment and the district court denied his motion. Today, we affirm the denial. For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as President no longer protects him against this prosecution...
...“We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count...
..At bottom, former President Trump’s stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches. Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review. We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter. Careful evaluation of these concerns leads us to conclude that there is no functional justification for immunizing former Presidents from federal prosecution in general or for immunizing former President Trump from the specific charges in the Indictment.
Moreover, the Appeals panel clearly has lost tolerance for the former president*'s well-worn strategies for running out the clock. It gave him until Monday to bring his case to the Supreme Court, or else it will all go back to Judge Tanya Chutkan for trial. (His lawyers may have to buy a new box of crayons.) And that low hum you hear is the slow revving of the machinery back there. The system is powering up again.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46663540/donald-trump-election-results-federal-appeals-court/
Tucker - Fact-checked by the Kremlin might be the ultimate burn
https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1755231118117216732You got to interview Putin because he rightly sees you as a useful idiot who will spread his propaganda.
You got to interview Putin because he rightly sees you as a useful idiot who will spread his propaganda. If you actually challenged him on his illegal invasion, the war crimes and massive slaughter of civilians he ordered, he'd imprison you just like he did Evan Gershkovich.
https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1754986276825030910
Will the 6 radical justices on the Supreme Court humiliate themselves?
Were I they, I would not have made the revealing, fatuous, and politically and constitutionally cynical, concluding argument that the former president and his lawyers made to the Supreme Court in their Reply Brief today.
https://twitter.com/judgeluttig/status/1754630553247089108
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/02/06/hopefully-this-hail-mary-pass-undercuts-trumps-case/
'painted by Hunter Biden and put on the 20$ bill'
just kidding
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1754112572117455121
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