Yeah, it's a clowncar of absurd self-serving slogans. That's why I only drop in for the occasional disparagement. — ZzzoneiroCosm
Yet I feel it's necessary to continue doing both, lest anyone new to the forum mistakes his pathological worldview as representative.
6h — Xtrix
Former President Donald Trump welcomed chants by his supporters calling for his Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged on January 6th, 2021, according to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a lead investigator on the House select committee probing the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
During the first public hearing held by the committee on Thursday, Cheney cited testimony by Trump advisers who recalled the president saying, “Maybe our supporters have the right idea. Mike Pence deserves it.”
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Cheney also said that the committee will air testimony that Trump “really did not want to put anything out” by urging his supporters to stand down and leave the Capitol, and that the former president was “really angry” at advisors who said he needed to do so.
“On the morning of January 6, President Donald Trump’s intention was to remain president of the United States,” Cheney said, adding that he had “a seven-point plan” to overturn the 2020 election.
Cheney said Trump made “relentless efforts to pressure Pence both in private and public.”
“What President Trump asked Vice President Pence to do wasn’t just wrong. It was illegal and unconstitutional,” she added.
It occurs to me, listening to the pre-broadcast commentary, that a very sizeable minority, and possibly even a majority, of Americans, really do believe that Donald Trump is above the law. — Wayfarer
Post presidency, they just can't find a crime to stick on him. That had nothing to do with democracy. — Tate
Perhaps we'll learn that Trump was told about the planning of the Proud Boys for 1/6. We'll have to stay tuned. — Relativist
Terrible. More power to Amber Heard.All judicial systems fail sometimes. This is a case study in a UK failure: — Tate
Stand down, and stand by." Trump was directly ordering the Proud Boys. — Jackson
Trump was provided the facts, not that he accepted them. — Relativist
Clearly, the Proud Boys perceived it that way, but how do you establish Trump's intent? His post debate statement would get him off: “I don’t know who the Proud Boys are. Whoever they are, they have to stand down. Let law enforcement do their work.”"Stand down, and stand by." Trump was directly ordering the Proud Boys. — Jackson
Clearly, the Proud Boys perceived it that way, but how do you establish Trump's intent? — Relativist
Trump, whatever said and done, was voted into the White House in a fair election! — Agent Smith
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