The courts could hold Trump accountable if Republican senators refuse: legal expert rawstory.com/could-courts-h…
Trump didn't have to march with the crowd to do something illegal. Federal law says any person who "counsels, commands, (or) induces" anyone to commit a crime is also guilty. That means Trump. So, what happens to the former president after his Republican allies let him go?
"Once Trump's senate fraternity brothers and sorority sisters give him a pass, the real question is whether the Department of Justice will make good on its name by conducting a full investigation into the many activities of Trump that appear criminal," wrote Stern.
"There is plenty to investigate, from the campaign finance fraud payoff of Stormy Daniels, to the extortion of Ukraine's president that tied American financial aid to manufactured political dirt on Biden, to the breach of the Capitol that ended in the deaths of five people."
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"2:23 p.m., this is on television," said Burnett, showing CNN coverage of protesters breaching the Capitol. "At 2:24, Trump tweeted about the man presiding over the Senate floor that time, his vice president.
'Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent inaccurate ones. USA demands the truth.' The record leaves no question of whose side Trump was on in the deadly riot."
As DeJoy readies new assault on Postal Service, pressure grows for Biden to 'clean house' rawstory.com/louis-dejoy/
"We want a Board of Governors that understands fundamentally this is not called the United States Postal Business. It's not a profit-making business. It's here to serve the people."
—Mark Dimondstein, American Postal Workers Union
Meanwhile, the Post noted, "congressional Democrats are pressing President Biden to install new board members, creating a majority bloc that could oust DeJoy, a Trump loyalist whose aggressive cost-cutting over the summer has been singled out for much of the performance decline."
'This is a very dangerous period': Author says Trump is the most 'traitorous' official since the Civil War rawstory.com/trump-traitoro…
"The final year of Donald Trump's presidency has had such a negative impact that U.S. birthrates are predicted to decrease in 2021."
2/ "Unless immediate relief is offered millions of Americans may face eviction. More than 10 million Americans are now at least $5,000 behind in rent payments...
"The Trümperdämmerung is finally here, and it is every bit the raging dumpster fire that we, the unlucky audience for this drama, have come to expect."
2/ "Is there anyone left who is surprised that the President is careening through the last days of his Administration with a reckless disdain that simply has no precedent in American public life?"
‘These are Trump’s thugs’: Steve Schmidt pins responsibility for DC Proud Boy violence on presidential incitement rawstory.com/2020/12/these-…
With reports of stabbings and gunfire, Schmidt linked to clips of the far-right white nationalists roaming the streets and stopping cars, calling the members of the group “Trump’s thugs.”
2/“Look at this closely. These right-wing fascists are instigating political violence in the name of a defeated President who is inciting them. This is the Capitol of the United States. This is a glimpse of our future. This must be crushed at the ballot box.”
Pelosi can blackball Republicans who backed Trump’s election plot from serving in Congress: report rawstory.com/2020/12/pelosi…
"That’s because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment literally says that anyone who has tried to rebel against the Constitution after having pledged to protect it can’t hold political office. "
2/ "This would include any GOP House members who signed onto an amicus brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bogus Supreme Court case seeking to toss hundreds of thousands of votes in four swing states, so that Trump can steal a democratically decided election."