Donald Trump was “most culpable” for the January 6 riot and would have been convicted in court had the case gone to trial, according to explosive testimony from former special counsel Jack Smith, released Wednesday afternoon by the House Judiciary Committee.
Smith led both Justice Department prosecutions of Trump: the first over the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters after he lost the 2020 election, and the second over his alleged concealment of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
He testified before the Judiciary panel in a closed-door session earlier in December as the committee investigates whether Trump was politically targeted by the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden.
Biggest dropped ball in the history of American criminal justice.
Biden/Garland didn’t drop the ball. They set it down gently and walked away.
Mueller described the size and the shape of another ball, but refused to say it was a ball.
Biggest failure since reconstruction…
Arguably, this is still a result of Reconstruction. It was that bad that its still affecting today.
Even bigger than the last Democratic administration failing to send anyone to prison for the Iraq war, illegal torture programs, illegal assassination programs, or the 2008 financial crisis
If we ever want to get this country to stop being a shithole the Democratic party is the one that needs to be fixed
…okay?
Why do people always act like it’s such a gotcha that Democratic politicians have sucked?
They’re all fucking worthless, both parties.
But only one is in power right now and actively tearing down the structures of our democracy. Until that’s dealt with, I’m sorry, but addressing shit someone did in office 20 years ago is just not the priority.
People like that are just promoting nihilism. They want to discourage us from doing anything effective. Notice they don’t promote any practical solutions.
If Dems suck, vote in primaries.
The Republicans are in power and actively tearing down the structures of our democracy because the Democratic party allows them to. The Republican party can only be dealt with through a more effective Democratic party. Any conversation about what the Republicans have done and stopping them from doing more absolutely must reckon with how we are going to fix the Democratic party first or it is going to inevitably be a complete waste of time and effort that puts us in an even worse place than where we are at now (see; 2024, 2016, etc.).
Did you miss the part where I said both parties were shit?
Absolutely Democrats need to step up, clean house, and get their priorities in order, but needing to revitalize and organize the party doesn’t involve going back 20 years and pointing fingers at what people should have done or said back then.
What I’m interested in is what they’re going to propose and vote for going forward.
The Republicans are in power and actively tearing down the structures of democracy because the American people invited them to do so last November.
Even bigger than the Nixon pardon.
I would say about as big as LBJ finding out like a month before the 1968 election (which put Nixon in power) that candidate Nixon had been illegally coordinating with his friend Henry Kissinger at the State Department to undermine peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War and decided to just sweep that little bit of treason under the rug rather than deal with the headache of arresting the GOP’s candidate for president right before an election
They both need to be fixed, or eliminated. Even if democrats were perfect, you can’t have a functioning society that oscillates between sanity and insanity.
Ummm no. Dems not perfect by any means. But turning the ire on Democrats instead of Republicans is … strange. Useless. Performative.
I am le enlightened centrist, don’t you know it’s both sides???