Correct me if I’m wrong but shouldn’t these hearings have Trump or his people responding to the accusations they are making? If Republicans had spines and win in November they should investigate why so much time was wasted looking into Jan 6 and nothing about the funding of the summer of love. Why not investigate the funding of political violence.
I voted for Trump twice but I feel if he runs again he will rehash the 2020 election and media will go into hyperdrive about Jan 6. I figured the results wouldn’t be overturned so I don’t know why he wasted his time with the “release the kraken” or stop the steal movement.
It's not a fair hearing. It's a senate witch hunt where they make the rules whatever they want.
Just makes me mad that tax dollars are wasted on this garbage
Then stop paying taxes.
And get everyone you know to stop paying too.
The IRS are bullies. They only go for people they can make examples of. But they would never be able to take on an army of tax strikers.
Anyone for tea and stereotypically offensive cosplay?
Senate hearings are political tribunals. The standards of each “hearing” is set by the chair. In this case it’s Cheney and whatever democrat stooge they threw up. This hearing was a sham from the day the committee was assembled because of the rules they put in place. Donald trump is not allowed to present a defense because of the rules of the committee. It’s a sham “trial” that will do what it was intended to do, set congressional record that orange man bad.
True. But anyone with any sense could see that it was a sham trial and the hyperventilating over this is absurd. Attack on democracy!!!! I said from the beginning to charge those that broke the law but you don’t get to church pearls after we watched months of destruction. And who mourns for Ashli?
My mistake
This isn't a trial. If it were, he'd be allowed to make a case.
They don't actually have authority to have a trial for Donald Trump, as he is not an office holder. When they impeached him the second time, this was pointed out. They'd never get around to a trial in time, and afterwards they'd have no authority.
Here's Trump's responses from patriots.win: https://media.patriots.win/post/5mEbMWhWEpxx.png
It seems pretty clear that the WH team had no idea anybody would be armed but wanted soldiers in the area in case anything happened, and I don't know why they act like him wanting to go to the damn Capitol where he just told his supporters he was going to speak with them is somehow bad, certainly not as bad as POTUS being kidnapped by the secret service.
But since we live in a post-truth world where CNN's chyron bestows on us the narrative of the day, I assume they're pretending that "it will be wild" and "I'll march with you" was code for insurrection. Ultra MAGA King - pleased upon hearing that all his rabid followers came armed to the teeth - planned to go to the Capitol to lead them into the building, personally behead Mike Pence, and topple Our Democracy once and for all. This nobody they have testifying hearsay is meant to be a surprise star witness who proves everything. She saw and heard it all. No evidence of any of that, but that's what half the country now believes.
By the way Jizzlane was sentenced to 20 years today, but obviously the news had more important things to discuss.
I didn't watch her but from what others are saying, she didn't even see or hear these things first hand. She's repeating what she was told by others.
even then the shit she claims happened is physically impossible.
you cannot grab the wheel of a limo from the back.
i mean maybe yao ming could, but trump?
When I think of an insurrection I think of a bunch of armed people.
If insurrection had been their aim, heads would have lined the iron fences outside the capitol. The police officers present would have been so overwhelmingly outnumbered they would not have been able to even buy enough time to get reinforcements.
Exactly. And they had the nerve to push that narrative
Sadly I am forced to interact with the more left leaning types on a near daily basis. Believe me, even among that group, no one is talking about this hearing.
Good to know. I still see CNN on the TV in some random public places and I'm like why? No doubt there are some mindless idiots walking around in a daze who absorb whatever appears on the screen as fact. Hopefully far less than half the country!
It's a kangaroo court. There's no GOP representation there which violates congressional rules.
I know but I guess it irritates me to see the Pearl clutching and the fact that tax dollars are wasted on that farce
It was a good way to fleece money from his supporters.
I don't think that's it. I think Trump naively still had some trust in the system, and he genuinely thought he could bring the fraud to light and that the coup would be overturned.
He made sure to get Papa Kush and Israeli spies out of prison before he was out of office so no, I don't think that's particularly likely. J6 was also an enormous PR boost for glowies, and he instigated that.
Sounds like grounds for impeachment to me. Or whatever they do to kick out senators.
Impeachment, yes. The House can impeach Senators, and the Senate can try them, and remove them from office. Now, do they get to vote for themselves? That I don't know.