Posted on 12/06/2022 7:42:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It was just a matter of time before the January 6th committee did what it was always going to do. Namely, announce criminal referrals in relation to the unrest at the Capitol following the 2020 election.
On Tuesday, Chairman Bennie Thompson made it official, telling reporters that referrals were on the way and would be submitted as a separate document from the committee’s report.
House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals, chairman says https://t.co/esCgI5qvlk
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) December 6, 2022
Thompson didn’t announce exactly who the criminal referrals will target, but it’s not exactly a secret that Donald Trump is in the crosshairs. As the CNN article notes, the committee’s members have been in wide agreement that they feel the former president committed a crime. The lack of evidence to support such a contention hasn’t stopped them before and I see no reason to believe it’ll stop them now.
In short, Donald Trump is trouble, and that becomes clear when you take a step back and take a look at all the moving parts. Yes, the January 6th committee is a cog in all this, but it’s not the only one. The timing of the DOJ’s new special counsel targeting Trump isn’t a coincidence, and sure enough, on the same day Cheney and company announced criminal referrals were coming, here’s what the DOJ was working on.
BREAKING: DOJ special counsel subpoenas officials in several states, asking for communications with or involving former President Donald Trump, campaign aides and allies involved in his efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election.
https://t.co/X3mt3xX48u— The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2022
A revival of New York State’s criminal case against Trump also happened in the last month. Again, none of these things are happening separately from one another. It’s all part of a slow-moving operation to take down the former president once and for all. The January 6th committee is mostly theater, but the DOJ is playing off that theater to build its case and turn public opinion.
There’s only one outcome here: Donald Trump is going to be indicted.
And while I’ve often said that would be stupid as a matter of law, at the end of the day, nothing I or anyone else has to say really matters. The DOJ is hellbent on finishing what it started way back in 2016, and no amount of calling them corrupt is going to change that.
That leads me to my last point. A lot of people on the right, myself included, have begun the debate on who should be the Republican nominee in 2024. The typical points of tension revolve around whether Donald Trump has what it takes to put together a winning coalition. But amidst the various factions yelling at each other about matchup hypotheticals, the elephant in the room is being ignored: Donald Trump is going to be indicted, and there is no chance a DC jury doesn’t convict him of whatever the DOJ puts in front of them.
The only question left in my mind is whether the government officials behind that drive are going to time things so that Trump is already the nominee when he’s indicted, essentially leaving Republicans without a candidate for the 2024 election. The trap is being baited, and that’s going to leave some tough decisions ahead for the GOP.
Yep, and McCarthy and McConnell will breathe a sigh of relief. The GOP is dead.
Since the conclusion was pre-drawn, and any exculpatory evidence was ignored, the timetable was set in stone.
For running for President again.!
Yes however they found out to make him gone is like poking a tiger with a stick he’s a man who will die on his feet not live on his knees like they do.
Manhood is a very rare item in D.C now days examples must be made.
Red State = Unreadable publication from Trump hater Erick Erickson’s mother’s basement noozroom that has been an absolute toilet bowl since 2015 - Trump Derangement Meter = 10
Trump or nothing - screw the UniParty.
I agree
Yes, indeed- should these desperate clowns get an indictment (doubtful even with crazed Merrick at the wheel in DC circuit)— then DISCOVERY of evidence would be a real biotch for the crazies— they’d have to shroud needed legal facts in fake nat security. But then a DC “jury” would go along with it.
This is the child’s game of “what if” played by Bennie thompson (a real moron) and Liz Cheney (a sainted moron of mil-industrial darth vader daddy).
No, they think that this is the new normal, and that thanks to their partisan media shills in and out of social media, they will have no trouble gaslighting and cowing the public.
Good point...Trump's SCOTUS appointments might come in handy here...
I hope that’s true, but I have my doubts.
I remember when Nixon was being politically assassinated it seemed like public opinion turned against him over night. Up to a point everyone knew it was obviously a political witch hunt. Everyone I talked to knew most past President had done far worse.
Now Nixon is widely regarded as the most disgraced President in history. Nobody even cares what he did or was accused of.
It’s almost like Americans would rather believe Nixon deserved what he got, than to believe the Nation was so corrupt a President could be driven from office by his political enemies.
I’m afraid that’s what’s going to happen to Trump gradually. People will get tired of resisting the relentless fake news narratives and finally just say “I guess orange man must have been bad after all, or why else would everyone hate him so much?”
I’ll always admire him no matter what - but I’ve seen public opinion turn before..
Stop.
>>This would make a lot of Free Republic Trump haters/ DeSantis fluffers very happy.<<
But naming DeSantis as VP would pull the GOP over the line...
With all write ins flagged for IRS audit.
They forgot Ray Epps and associates.
“ The tribunal will now retire to Chambers to review the evidence and return shortly with the guilty verdict“
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