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(14,208 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)These things take time...must fully investigate every minute irrelevant loophole that might let him slip away...
msfiddlestix
(7,266 posts)DOJ will run out the clock, no doubt.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)ancianita
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MissB
(15,800 posts)Well deserved
Walleye
(30,729 posts)C-SPAN has text that is saying the DOJ has a choice which is it?
ancianita
(35,816 posts)Since a grand jury can call anyone to stand before them, they can force Trump, no lawyer, to stand and testify, and hoist himself with his own petard.
leftieNanner
(14,998 posts)Seeing TFG in court in front of a Grand Jury would be the best! (Grand Juries are behind-closed-doors, but the whole idea makes me smile)
Damn! But I want his ass in a sling.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)that they should give Trump full immunity to testify, so he can't take the 5th, then watch as he throws everyone, including his own kids, under the bus. The fantasy is not whether Trump would do this, (he would) but whether the Grand Jury would.
Ford_Prefect
(7,830 posts)He'd just sit there and yell about entrapment, and then try to walk out on the proceedings.
Walleye
(30,729 posts)PortTack
(32,606 posts)Of the other insurrectionists dont want to be caught up in their criminal enterprise!
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)then use a fire hose to scrub his ass & shave his head & check for lice !
bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)A handful of Republicans keep the light on for democracy. The rest of them tied up Lady Liberty and tied her to the railroad tracks.
AZ8theist
(5,339 posts)Well, not shocked really.
Not shocked at all. Repukes are now the party of Fascism and Dictatorship.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)ancianita
(35,816 posts)He'd show us!
TheRickles
(2,001 posts)ancianita
(35,816 posts)I don't know who Mace and Fitzpatrick are, but they voted against impeachment but FOR holding Bannon in contempt. Some Repubs who voted for impeachment voted against holding SB in contempt.
Norbert
(6,030 posts)Top row, 2nd from left.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming (January 6 committee member)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
Rep. John Katko of New York
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois (January 6 committee member)
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan
Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan
TheRickles
(2,001 posts)Patton French
(704 posts)Now!
brooklynite
(93,880 posts)This is a CONTEMPT citation, not a criminal charge. "Lock him up" applies ONLY if the subject continues to refuse to appear before Congress when apprehended.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)totodeinhere
(13,037 posts)The vast majority of Republicans voted "no." Of course Cheney and Kinzinger voted "yes" but they do not represent the Republican Party as it is today.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)What is the number for correctly calling any vote "bipartisan"?
Kablooie
(18,572 posts)That seems to be the Trumpy way.
Keep everything spinning in the court ad infinitum until the threat finally fades away.
Of course you have to be able to afford a team of lawyers for two years but I guess with multiple Republican billionaire activists to foot the bill, it's not your problem.
AllaN01Bear
(17,384 posts)Jon King
(1,910 posts)This is a no brainer. He can only go a maximum of 1 year. He will go to a Fed prison for non violent offenders. not that tough a stint. He comes out in 8 months or 12 months, he is a MAGA god.
The MAGAs shower him with speaking gigs, book deals, TV shows, and he and his family are set for the rest of their lives.
This all sounds like a thing but he will not cooperate and will end up set for life financially.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)before Congress, say little to nothing, and be released with no jail time. He'd still be a god of the alt-right fascist world.
There will be no way to get to Trump through Bannon unless the DOJ has a powerful case to make and has Trump subpoenaed by a grand jury, and then jailed for not speaking to the grand jury.
Jan 6 Committee work can still proceed, with all future subpoenaed not-Bannon witnesses seeing their futures.
Something and someone will corroborate the millions of documents they already hold that show paper trails and communications, possible networks of both.