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Marius25

(3,213 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 11:21 AM Aug 2023

Trump told co-conspirators to claim election was rigged before it even happened

And he said to leave it to him and Republican members of Congress to take care of it. That's proof that he never believed the election lie, it was a massive coup attempt.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/donald-trump-georgia-indictment

“Just Say That the Election Was Corrupt, and Leave the Rest to Me”: In Georgia, Donald Trump Appears Beyond F--ked



I don't understand why no members of Congress have been indicted yet.
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Kid Berwyn

(15,245 posts)
1. Should corrupt GOP get indicted and kicked out of Congress...
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 11:23 AM
Aug 2023

...there'd be no majority left to go after the laptop, protect the SCROTUS, stiff the taxpayers, stall the promotions...

Brainfodder

(6,424 posts)
3. Watch the George Santos for LIVE FEED of the ineptitude of our system for being rid of bad apples?
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 11:30 AM
Aug 2023

BOLD FACE CORRUPTION and so ridiculous it must be a nightmare or actual HELL?



Yeah somehow that is where we collectively find ourselves.

U.S.A. got some explaining to do!



They even made the Supreme Court look like partisan potluck if anything gets pushed there, and Republicans acting like it's WHATEVER they want it is?

getagrip_already

(15,136 posts)
4. Unindicted coconspirators......
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 11:35 AM
Aug 2023

At the federal level, Smith is thought to be readying separate indictments of up to 20 individuals including the unindicted coconspirators on separate charges.

Tfg wouldn't be included in those charges, and they wouldn't be added to the ones he is charged with. That way he is the only defendent in that trial.

Plenty of criming to go around. It's possible they will be at the kids table if that is what Smith is up to.

Willis may also bring separate charges outside of the Rico network l and bring them in then.

malaise

(269,569 posts)
5. All their internal polls said he would lose
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 12:05 PM
Aug 2023

He killed millions of people - WTF else should he have expected?

Lock him up

pecosbob

(7,566 posts)
7. They made it plain to the entire world before the election that they would challenge the results.
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 12:47 PM
Aug 2023

They trumpeted it to the media who obligingly forgot about it and then covered the whole thing like it was a horse race. We had popcorn at my house

Whiskeytide

(4,466 posts)
12. 60 to 70 million people in this country have been ...
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 01:39 PM
Aug 2023

… indoctrinated to believe that the frauds committed by Тяцмp and his co-conspirators - incl members of Congress - were acts of patriotism, and that the deep state is now going after them for it. They will never forego that belief, no matter what evidence is laid before them.

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
14. Because there is no pressure
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 01:58 PM
Aug 2023

To do so would require other members to step upon both Dem and GOP but no one is. They are either all corrupt and do not want to shine light on other for fear of light being shown on them or they think that standing back like a wallflower and being silent benefits them in some way, it won’t. The threads this pulls on will pull members from both sides of isle down.

3catwoman3

(24,183 posts)
15. He was complaining that "It's a rigged system, folks" all during...
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 02:42 PM
Aug 2023

...the 2016 campaign because he thought he was going to lose.

He has a very limited repertoire of responses.

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