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One might recognize a problem when you have spent more comments defending your claims and previous comments than you have spent defending the convicted criminal.
Since we all know she’s very pedantic about words like this, I assume this was intentionally posted as bait
Since we all know she’s very pedantic about words like this, I assume this was intentionally posted as bait
You bet. Guilty of contempt of court TEN TIMES! So far. And there was no defense or claims of innocence because he did it right out in public before cameras, online: there are witnesses and a huge paper trail.
I felt a bit sorry for him, he obviously has no idea how this all works.
I felt worse for his layers, they keep getting REAMED for his conduct.
And he is still not listening to his legal team.
My hope is that he continues to violate the gag order. Then we will see what the judge is made out of. Does the judge have the courage to jail the former President?
I would really enjoy seeing the former President take the stand. I doubt that'll happen.
Gee grumpy I'm glad you find it entertaining but you apparently haven't a clue as to what a real Cowboy is like. I assure you from experience DT quite literally is a Soft-Handed Antithesis of Cowboy. He's far more like a Budget Used Car Salesman who sells "restored" Corvettes whose bodies are 70% Bondo and whose drive trains are filled with 90W.... but they might have gold sneakers as an option hanging from the Rear View
I taught in a western state. I had a student ride her horse to school, but I ever had a student bring in a firearm. Not once. REAL cowboys don't bluster or threaten, or need to. And unlike Trump, they pay their debts! (Not always on time, but hey: life happens.)
It's pretty simple, Trump offered not ordered as many as 10,000 and the Mayor ordered 350 NG without crowd control equipment and a 'rapid deployment' force of only 40 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
"District of Columbia officials knew of the planned protests and had requested some assistance when the "First Amendment demonstrations" were planned for Jan. 5 and 6, McCarthy said. Based on this request, officials called up 340 National Guardsmen to help. The Guardsmen were assigned mainly to traffic control, Metro crowd control, some logistics support and a 40-member quick reaction force to be based at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
Now, a previously-unreleased video taken on Jan. 6, 2021 shows then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., admitting that she was responsible for the lack of preparedness.
Something else the J6th Comm. failed to disclose:
"The video was disclosed in a posting on X by a House Republican panel. The video shows Pelosi in an exchange with Chief of Staff Terri McCullough on the evacuation. Pelosi states:
“We have responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there. And we should have. This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached…that, should we call the Capitol Police? I mean the National Guard? Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?…They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.”
The video was never released by the J6 Committee, which was criticized for its highly choreographed and scripted hearings with little balance in the presentation of evidence. The lack of emphasis on the security issues was glaring and raised by critics throughout the hearings." https://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/1...n-january-6th/
Regardless, the fact is the Speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security and according to the Capital police chief was not involved in the decisions made ahead of January 6. The overall responsibility lies with the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police.
Just wait until the next – and, every future – Presidential term. There are over 4,000 counties which can convene a Grand Jury. So, let's take "Inauguration Day Plus One." The President signs an order. Someone doesn't like it. Smoothly, the prepared machinery glides into motion. Five hundred Grand Juries are convened – and, two or so days later, they hand down criminal indictments. On to the next week . . .
Inauguration day next, 12:01 PM. The now-former President is immediately arrested and taken to jail, now facing several thousand years in prison.
But: "there is no 'Inauguration day next,'" because absolutely no one agreed to become a candidate.
"Article 2" tasks a single person with almost-impossible responsibilities and powers. Literally, a one-person "Executive Branch." If this single person does not, in fact, have the power to behave as "a Branch," then the entire Constitutional system breaks down.
Regardless, the fact is the Speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security and according to the Capital police chief was not involved in the decisions made ahead of January 6. The overall responsibility lies with the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police.
Do you truly believe that had Pelosi accepted Trump's offer of additional Nat. Guard troops it would have been turned down by the Police Board?
It does not matter what I think. The Speaker could not accept Trump's offer either way or whether or not she was briefed on any intelligence for J6 planning?
It does not matter what I think. The Speaker could not accept Trump's offer either way or whether or not she was briefed on any intelligence for J6 planning?
Her own words, if the J6 tape is accurate, seems to indicate that she felt responsibility for not asking for enhanced security. As discussed in a previous post Mayor Bowser? took less than 400 hundred troops, stipulated no riot gear and put them on traffic duty too far away to be of help. The J6 comm. went out of it's way to try to blame Trump for lack of security.
Her own words, if the J6 tape is accurate, seems to indicate that she felt responsibility for not asking for enhanced security.
In Mrs. Pelosi's defence, maybe she didn't understand what they were dealing with?
I mean, from the outside looking in, one would (objectively) have to be rather stupid to think that storming the Capital of the US would end well. If Mrs. Pelosi is guilty of anything, it is overestimating the collective intelligence of some parts of the US voting public. That's how it looks from here.
Mr. Trump has allegedly collected so many millions of dollars in donations after the events of recent weeks... How much of that money has been used to help any of the J6ers he was going fight for and protect?
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