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TwilightZone

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2. We shouldn't use the GOP as our guideline.

Reply to global1 (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 13, 2021, 11:02 AM

Feb 2021

And Benghazi was a failure. Not sure that's a great example of where we should be headed.

"Do you think if he's acquitted that he'll just disappear from existence never being heard from again? "

Do you think if he's convicted that he'll just disappear from existence never being heard from again?"

Nope. Conviction isn't the magic wand that many seem to insist it is and it would only ramp up the bullshit from Trump. Conviction would accomplish nothing other than (possibly) preventing him from running again, and that chance almost assuredly ended on January 6th. It certainly wasn't going to hold him accountable for anything.

The only way to hold him accountable is for some jurisdiction to indict and prosecute him. That was always the only way he would be held accountable.

Save the witnesses for the civil and criminal cases and hope that they transpire.

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The Senate is scheduled to go into recess this week - call witnesses! [View all] servermsh Feb 2021 OP

If The Shoe Were On The Other Foot - What Would The Repugs Do?..... global1 Feb 2021 #1

We shouldn't use the GOP as our guideline. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #2

A witness to be called! BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #3