I can appreciate how Jack Smith did not use that sort of waffling language that Mueller did. Mueller practically contorted himself to avoid saying that Trump would be found guilty of obstruction were he not President.
Biden's final act as President should be to send one of those non-existent black bag outfits down to Florida to pay the new leader a visit in the middle of the night. Without him, there is nothing to keep the Right united and maybe we'll have a chance.
The thing that kills me is I'm not seeing a lot of news sources covering this. I've had to dig for it this morning. Like they're all cowering in fear. Or Google is shifting the algorithm.
He wasn’t elected when these charges could have been brought. These are lies. They could have and should have brought charges before the election. And the miscarriage of justice will end this country. Fuck garland and smith frankly.
⚖️America needs to bring a class-action lawsuit against our current government (leaders, DOJ, AG, SCOTUS) for: ignoring our Constitution/allowing a felon President & no punishment for crimes/not protecting us & democracy. And maybe for allowing a religion to influence policy/local & state govt/SCOTUS
Speaking of people who should have been prosecuted. W and his administration committed war crimes and lied to get us into a war with a country that never attacked us.
The fact that the US doesn't have laws that preclude those under CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, from running for office (ANY office) until such time as said investigation is either dropped, or a not-guilty verdict in court is delivered, is absolutely insane.
George, there just is no justice anymore or ever maybe. If God came to help us, he would be immediately deported because he's undocumented . Trump doesn't recognize HEAVEN.
Rule of Law is a complete joke in this country. Trump should have been impeached for the Insurrection (Treason). Trump should have been convicted for the Insurrection and Treason. Trump should never have been allowed to run for office again.
Sadly, the GOP enabled, protected and promoted Trump.
Because, they believed in his lies. If he had told the truth, he wouldn't be where he is today. For those that choose to stand on the side line due to Israel/Palestine conflict, you gave your voice away. Now, we ALL are paying the price.
Another important thing to remember is that the orange guy won a plurality of the votes, not the majority. His vote count was less than 50% of the total votes cast. That is not a landslide or a mandate. It just means he barely had enough votes to win, nothing more.
So if the investigators presented the case sooner, would this have prevented the next four years? I am astonished by the influence 🍊 has over people. Perhaps he is a mentalist.
The majority of Americans either voted for him, wasted their vote on a third party, or - overwhelmingly - decided not to vote at all. In a bipartisan system, not voting for one party *is* a vote in favor of the other.
Voters had nothing to do with the outcome of this "election." If they had, the results would have been wayyyy different, and we'd be happy to be alive right now.
pretty ironic that if he had not been voted in he would have been convicted for stripping citizens of their votes.
almost like there should be something in the constitution, or maybe an amendment that automatically disqualifies someone for the crimes he committed. starts with a 1 ends with a 4....
This was public knowledge. 77 million people either didn't care or are too deep in the cult to believe what happened out in the open. They think the one line, "peacefully and patriotically," excuses the rest of his behavior that led to the riot.
Uncharted territory is the understatement of the year. An evil cabal manipulated a low-info and gullible populace into voting to put this recidivist criminal and ill-equipped Dunning-Kruger effect personification back into power to wreak havoc on us all. Take a bow, Dark Lords, you won. God help us
Trying to stay away from US politics but this occurred to me this morning and won't go away
1. Ban TikTok, forcing people back to Instagram, which is owned by Meta
2. Remove content moderation and fact checking from Meta, thus making it easier to spread propaganda unchecked
Recreationally, true, but for those who use it for monetary purposes such as promotions have very little other choice. Hopefully the rise of bluesky will bring on the development of other such independent platforms especially with the EFJ committing to ceasing the use of X from Jan 20th onwards
My country isn't banning TikTok but I don't like or use it so I tend to veer towards insta for a casual reel scroll on my commute. I cancelled FB and X a long time ago and would happily switch to Telegram over WhatsApp but there's nothing like insta at the moment, unless you can recommend something?
All the more reason to take to the streets, we should not just sit here and let them continue destroying our lives. No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.
A man who made everyone believe that he was Iron Man bought Amerikkka for less than he bought Twitter. I think this morning he might have regrets. White men who cannot take no for an answer for the win! Reminds me of another time in camp waiting to be rescued https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYoTCvst/
As a voter in the Bible Belt I can assure you I did NOT vote for that orange shit sack. I get that he won the election, but please quit lumping me in with the idiots who voted him in or the people who didn't vote.
Why was he even allowed to run in the first place? Better yet, why is no preventing a convicted criminal who's clearly a traitor from taking office? Why is no one out on the streets over this? Mind boggling.
If the Mueller Report and the Smith Report were meant to have teeth, they would have been released when it would have stopped Trump, not just after the fact. This is one big McMahon wrestling Empire scripted scenario playing out by both sides.
The American voters who voted for this criminal deserve what they're going to get. Those of us who didn't vote for him don't deserve it, but we're going to have to deal with it.
When did Republicans EVER SAVE DEMOCRACY???
They had 2 chances to impeach the bastard... and they failed!!!
They could have STOPPED ALL OF THIS!!!
Am I the only one seeing this complete insanity & bevy of lies???
P.S. I also blame Garland for this fiasco of justice, but Reps had the 1st stab at it.
The same can be said for Biden, the entire system ultimately failed to lead us to this situation. The article though has specifically mentioned several times Republicans, especially people in Trump's cabinet did impede or stop Trump, which won't happen with loyalist in place this time.
Yes, Biden & Garland both failed America's justice department.
They are old men, still believing in old norms.
They completely missed the boat on what's happening now.
They will not….the patriots (if there are any left) will get purged. The rest will be sycophants and will do the king’s bidding. No matter how criminal
Not in our lifetimes. Our global reputation has been irreparably damaged. No one will look to our nation for anything but madness. Despite all the whining, lying, and fear mongering, it wasn't brown immigrants who brought us down.
Indeed, all the checks & balances failed on purpose, all of them. This is what the 1%, the real owners, have been working on for decades. They got their bitch in Twat who will do whatever they say. He will usher in Project 2025 for them.
And yet we knew this already. Anyone with eyes and half a brain could see all the proof needed on January 6 as we were watched a crime against the United States unfold in real time.
I think this is just a darker vision of Mike Judge's Idiocracy. People elected a venerable idiot, racist, wannabe dictator and are surprised when he shows all of these traits.
And he’ll never pay for these crimes because people either drank the Kool-aid & voted for him or stayed at home because they were upset about inflation or Kamala being a woman or black. Thanks to them we’re heading to dark times
Trump engaged in insurrection against the US gov't after swearing to support it, so under the constitution's 14th amendment it's illegal for him to hold any US office.
He'll be a usurper illegally seizing the presidency, & any gov't officials who treat him as the president will be breaking the law.
I hope the world realizes that the people of the US didn't want this. The small group of evil pigs that orchestrated this coup has more money than the rest of us combined, and our votes weren't factored into the tallies. Musk and starlink did this, and the 🍊🍄is NOBODY'S choice
I agree completely. The problem is the world still lives in the times of free and fair elections which are evidently consigned to history. Hopefully people around the world soon realise that elections can be stolen by those who accuse others of stealing. I think resistance will show the reality.
Far too many Trump voters KNEW deep in their hearts that he engaged in criminal activity, but simply did not care. "Because of her laugh" or some other stupid bullshit they deluded themselves into believing.
MAGA is really just code for make Racism great again. That’s really at the core of it all. Their greatest fear isn’t a woman president or classified emails. It’s another Obama as president. Smart and intelligent person to disprove all of their racial biases.
My understanding is that Jack Smith isn't saying a jury would have convicted him, only that he had sufficient cause to bring the case to trial. What a jury does is what a jury does.
Okay. This is one we knew all along but to be living the consequences of so much greed and cowardice and pointless games when we could have seen the man most of the world hates spend his final, miserable years decaying through trial after trial, fading into obscurity then into oblivion. Fuck.
Hate that this came all too late, but I blame our first safety net which was Senate impeaching him for Jan 6 so that he could never run for any government office. Mcconnell’s fault.
And that's why he kept pushing his delay tactics, make it all drag out as long as possible, so by the time verdicts could be reached, he already became untouchable, US law is a mess when someone can run for president when they're knowingly facing criminal charges...
AND these same people expect him to 'fix the economy'. Darling, he has ZERO desire to fix anything but his broken self worth, which is what makes this whole thing so horrific because he has NO SELF WORTH. And he knows it... #BuckleUp? And the MAGA will pay for their votes in blood and money.
Meanwhile on the American tax plantation law enforcement regularly executes American citizens without trial, and yes occasionally the victims are children.
The fact that all these US voters can happily cheer in someone who was clearly running for president so he could stay out of jail, thinking that any time a charge was levied against Trump further meant that he was on their side, that they brushed aside him attempting a coup. How are they so deluded?
Never forget the powerful voices that contributed literal billions to his success. If it was left to the American people he would be in chains right now. Instead, he was rescued by his fellow billionaire elites with every dirty trick they could muster. Even then they almost didn't make it.
That was published a while before the election but it was buried. I knew about the informant being arrested and admitting he lied long before he was sentenced. I saw it online but never heard anything about it on the morning news that’s on while I get ready for work.
Why are we all accepting that a lying, cheating criminal “won” our election fairly? He didn’t. Votes disappeared, bomb threats in heavily Democratic districts, Musk spending $277 million to elect Trump and making a “special app” to know the results hours in advance. Really, guys? REALLY? Come on!
The 1%, the real owners, want Twat in charge cause he will do exactly what they want & usher in Project 2025. This is decades in the making to get y'all to this scary hell scape.
Convicted felon djt's past crimes are a fact, which we can't do much about. I am concerned about his future crimes, which won't be subject to impeachment until after the 2026 midterm elections, with lots of assumptions that future elections will amount to any corrections.
Ugh George. I am afraid as a older woman who makes a humble living off of her Social Security. I’m beginning to think I’m gonna end up out on the streets.
To say nothing of 14th Amendment violations regarding insurrection, which we have conveniently ignored, too. Why we are so scared of this cheetofelon's acolytes is beyond me. They are nothing. Congress needs to grow a pair and go after this KKKlown and his "followers".
I’ve said this many times: The ONLY reason donald dump ran for president is to avoid jail time. Millions of us saw that. Sadly, there are 2.5 million more, truly idiots, who fell for his bullshit hook, line, and sinker.
It’s time to consider a National Class Action Lawsuit against those officials who violated their oaths of office to protect and defend America against enemies Foreign AND Domestic!
What Lawyer has the power and patriotic duty to represent the entire country?
Merrick Garland could have and should have fast tracked this case and gone for maximum penalties such as treason and terrorism. The Dems were elected to lead, and they failed to lead. Placing the blame on the electorate is disingenuous and dangerous
I get what you're saying... but he should have been tried and presumably convicted within MONTHS of Jan 6, removed as a threat, and completely unavailable. The failure of our institutions here are countless.
There was plenty of time. The election in 2016 is what sealed it's fate. That put DJT in charge of appointing federal (including the scotus) judgeships. Cannon was approved in 2020. After 2 impeachments they still rubber stamped his picks.
This report was held onto. We have to ask why? They elected an insurrectionist. Had this been available to the public sooner he may not of been elected. Now there’s a report he interfered with the cease fire agreement. 7 months of death in Gaza, so he can get elected. This is an evil man.
I believe Dante Alighieri had a few words about what we are going to experience.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
We are entering the second term of a megalomaniac.
Well, we didn't elect him. Musk's starlink manufactured his "win." But these are really, really dark times. Just look at the screen cap. Holy shit - and FUCK our leadership for letting this happen.
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United States voters elected a felon because the GOP put him on the ballot. Not God, the GOP.
Juries gonna jury.
That being said, a DC jury would have convicted in a heart beat.
Just a lot of frustration and anger at the idiots who crowned a felonious, thieving, traitorous, grifter Molester-in Chief.
Like W in Iraq, revenge is a big big motivator.
Sadly, the GOP enabled, protected and promoted Trump.
They chose to play politics rather than enforce the laws of the land. They will be remembered for this failure.
As a New York State resident I’ll never vote for Chuck Schumer again after his cowardice.
The bot farms, yes.
I hope for all of you that four years will pass quickly and without too much damage. ❤️
almost like there should be something in the constitution, or maybe an amendment that automatically disqualifies someone for the crimes he committed. starts with a 1 ends with a 4....
it's over. America will not survive this.
1. Ban TikTok, forcing people back to Instagram, which is owned by Meta
2. Remove content moderation and fact checking from Meta, thus making it easier to spread propaganda unchecked
Do I have that right?
Is there a line for screaming into the void? Hoping to get a turn.
It ended when the Senate failed to do their duty and remove a clearly corrupt and criminal president when impeached. Twice.
It was buried when the same senate approved clearly unqualified people to the supreme court.
Without rule of law we are no longer a country.
Not united.
Many of them failed *on purpose*.
Starting Monday, the US are in the hands of a crime syndicate.
The Rule of Law is dead, and Republicans conspired with a terrorist and traitor to murder it.
Remains to be seen if the US can recover from this.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/12/republicans-save-democracy-trump-00197613
They had 2 chances to impeach the bastard... and they failed!!!
They could have STOPPED ALL OF THIS!!!
Am I the only one seeing this complete insanity & bevy of lies???
P.S. I also blame Garland for this fiasco of justice, but Reps had the 1st stab at it.
They are old men, still believing in old norms.
They completely missed the boat on what's happening now.
WHEN DID REPUBLICANS EVER SAVE DEMOCRACY??
fixed it.
Your only option out is revolt.
I think this is just a darker vision of Mike Judge's Idiocracy. People elected a venerable idiot, racist, wannabe dictator and are surprised when he shows all of these traits.
He'll be a usurper illegally seizing the presidency, & any gov't officials who treat him as the president will be breaking the law.
If you think it was MAGA racism that beat Kamala...why did democrats vote for white guy Biden over her in 2020?
Dude, you can’t tell me the MAGA platform isn’t racist when that’s what the racists voted for.
https://youtu.be/-e3T3VHmEkg?si=xUTDtWmnLjK3VVk3
Clearly Orchestrated
the media has been complicit all year
The 1%, the real owners, want Twat in charge cause he will do exactly what they want & usher in Project 2025. This is decades in the making to get y'all to this scary hell scape.
*no joke, Melon literally calls himself Kekius Maximus...
For Trump’s voters, eggs are more important than decency, values, and honorability.
I call them stupid.
It’s time to consider a National Class Action Lawsuit against those officials who violated their oaths of office to protect and defend America against enemies Foreign AND Domestic!
What Lawyer has the power and patriotic duty to represent the entire country?
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
We are entering the second term of a megalomaniac.
And both will be prosecuted
See: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Hugo Chávez, Vladimir Putin, etc.
Congrats