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.
So far…
That and Hilary’s emails. That other moron Comey is responsible for that. I am so glad that investigation was so thorough! What a bunch of idiots! All those movies with the super fbi agents and in reality they can’t investigate their way out of a paper bag…
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.
Facts get downvoted here, good to know. gAL (and Crab) are the only ones making any sense.
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
Ummm no. Dems not perfect by any means. But turning the ire on Democrats instead of Republicans is … strange. Useless. Performative.
THEY WHY DIDNT YPU GET HIM INTO COURT YOU TWAT!
YOU HAD 4 YEARS AND ONE JOB AND NOW WE’RE HERE!
THEY WHY DIDNT YPU GET HIM INTO COURT YOU TWAT!YOU HAD 4 YEARS AND ONE JOB AND NOW WE’RE HERE!
Smith was appointed in Nov of 22 and filed the first indictment in June of 23. If you’re addressing your comment to Garland, then you need to actually name him because this post is about Jack Smith.
I mean, he tried his best. Remember that Trump’s pet judge and the Supreme Court slow walked everything until he became president.
Wonder why the fat, old demented, orange felon didn’t get impeached - oh yeah, Republicans.
Trump was impeached, twice.
And the only way they will ever be dealt with is if we remove the useless shitbag Democratic party members who refuse to hold them accountable from office
Don’t get mad at the bank robbers for robbing a bank, get mad at the do-nothing sheriff who only ever wants to talk about how we all need to vote to rebuild the bank
I prefer to get mad at both.
Y’know what, fair enough, I phrased that poorly
Get absolutely apoplectic at both, but recognize the fact that until we fix the Dems there’s no way we’ll be able to neutralize the Republicans
“it’s the democrats’ fault the republicans sacked the capitol” is a wild take but go off king
What a fucking joke of a justice system! Fucking morons had 4 years to slam him into a dungeon and throw away the key. What good does it do now? Everybody saw it as it happened. All was clear as day. Fuck you and your justice system.
If their next president does NOT create new laws so this type of coup never happens again, then they are actually so dumb fr
It’s been a couple days and not a peep from the rapist about this.
How is that possible?Maybe he’s dead?
Or more likely it just hasn’t been shoved in his face while he watches TV or “plays golf”
Hopefully that first one though.
Because he won. This is all over with. This is an enemy he’s already defeated, and he’s not UPSET, he’s HAPPY to see his beaten enemy lamenting about how he’s been beaten. He’s THRILLED about this.
Was Trump culpable? Absolutely. 100%. And he should be in prison. But the useless asshats did absolutely nothing for four years, probably because they were afraid of making him a martyr, and now it’s simply impossible that he can ever be held criminally accountable for anything again. Regardless of what happens from here on out, that stain is on them.
Dead hopefully
Maybe Fox News hasn’t reported it yet.
Would have, should have but didn’t.
Would… had the case gone to the court…
Pathetic.
Yes, but would it have mattered though? He was convicted of rape and the majority of the American public either voted him in, or sat it out because they thought Kamala was somehow the same as him or for some virtue signalling about a topic halfway around the world. Dumb as bricks. Played for fools.
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Biden was so incompetent that his only quality was being not-trump
If only America had united to settle for some pro-corporate, fought against de-segregation, thinks abortion should be outlawed, do nothing moderate after Trump’s first term just so trump could be held accountable…
What’s that?!
We did unite to elect the historically unpopular do-nothing moderate who spent 40+ years trying to win a presidential primary?
And he just did nothing?!
Who could have ever seen that coming…
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I love this Jack Smith guy
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If Trump was held accountable he might not be President right now. It ended up with Dick Cheney getting platformed as it was The Avengers to stop Thanos and Biden telling Trump welcome home. Unserious country.
