If his cooperation results in the prosecutions of others, the #DOJ can file a motion with the judge overseeing his case to ask for a shorter sentence. #Greenberg could face perjury charges if he misleads investigators.
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Majority rule no longer exists in the #US Senate. Over decades, a procedure that was created to preserve majority rule has been manipulated and exploited to undermine it
If 41 Senators agree to block a bill, they can—even if the other 59 Senators support it. The procedure that has upended majority rule in the Senate is called the filibuster, and there are five reasons why it must go:
Prosecutors’ interest in any fringe benefits Trump provided to his employees is not limited to #Weisselberg.
The investigators, working for the Manhattan DA Vance, have also asked the #TrumpOrganization to turn over documents provided to other employees
The subpoena to Columbia Grammar, in addition to seeking information about the Weisselbergs, also referenced tuition payments for Mr. Trump’s teenage son, Barron, who attended the school until he finished the fifth grade.
Despite the evidence that Trump and his fascist cohort incited his deluded acolytes to storm the United States Capitol in a failed, but deadly, coup d’état on January 6
There is an ongoing and concerted effort to incite more violence against the government
No matter how often Trump supporters, fascist Republicans and right-wing media personalities claim the First amendment protects their and Trump’s nonstop lies about the election, there is Supreme Court PRECEDENT TO PUNISH THE FASCISTS severely for inciting violence.
THESE COMPANIES ARE STILL DONATING TO #CapitolCoup TRAITORS
Companies including #Toyota#JetBlue and #Cigna are still donating thousands of dollars to the lawmakers who voted against Biden's certification as president
What Happens When #Republicans Simply REFUSE TO CERTIFY Democratic Wins?
They know they cannot win majority support, but believe they have the right to rule for reasons that boil down to white supremacy, religious dominionism and antiquated beliefs
The BIG LIE that Trump really won the election is now canon among a majority of Republican voters.
Any #Republicans who refuses to toe the line is branded a heretic, and elections officials who dared to certify Biden’s win are being censured or stripped of their power.
#Biden’s electoral college win was only certified because enough Republican secretaries of state and county election board officials did their duty to democracy and resisted pressure to thwart voters
Every lever of Republican power has since been wielded to punish them.
'She was the one who generated it, because she was so worried about what Trump might do,' Edelman said. 'It speaks to the degree that she was concerned about the threat to our democracy that Trump represented.'
She circulated on Jan. 3rd to the entire House Republican Conference.
In it, Cheney debunked Trump's false claims about election fraud and warned her colleagues that voting to overturn the election results, as Trump was insisting, would 'set an exceptionally dangerous precedent’