Why do I feel like the very social media arrogance that makes it so easy to identify the Capitol invaders will be used to convince more than one jury that the perp wasn’t aware that they were breaking laws?
A fitting echo of Trump never being as harshly judged for what he did in the open than he would have been if he tried to conceal it.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense if you are a black woman unclear of their voting status in Texas. But I’ll bet it works to some degree for some here.
Look, Don Jr was let off the hook by Mueller because of ignorance of the law, so I wouldn’t have high hope that standard will apply equally across the hundreds of cases that plea out.
And maybe I’m just too cynical here but I have trouble picturing local Republican DA’s and Trump judges getting too carried away with the punishments for local politicians, cops, firefighters, and chamber of commerce stalwarts caught in the act of anything but murder.
Hell, have ANY Republicans issued the sort of bellicose vows to hunt the perpetrators down in their hidey holes? You know what the tone would be if this was an attack by foreign terrorists.
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In stunts like ignoring Capitol police or calling for Liz Cheney's scalp, unity pleading Republicans are STILL dog whistling to the mob to stay angry. Their vote of support for Trump was a vote more more division, more violence.
And then to have the gall to leak that they had no choice because they feared for their own safety? Knowing full well that any support of Trump even after he brought us to the brink will be read as support to push us over it.
Bottom line is most Republicans don't want the fever to break because they are the virus.
I think what makes this moment so especially alarming is this time we 100% know there are sympathizers to the terrorist's cause in every agency tasked with stopping them.
And while removing Trump may incite them, I think every day he's in office and they still have hope is even more dangerous.
Congresswoman Gun Waver needs to answer some questions about who she was talking to.
The cold truth is there’s a non zero number of elected lawmakers who share the vision of the rioters that overthrowing the United States is this consequence-free fun thing you do for the ‘gram.
They don’t have to be part of a planned conspiracy to excitedly think this is “their” team going for the TD and react accordingly.