Thread by @DempseyTwo

The Subverting Justice report released by the Senate Judiciary Committee shows a scheme by former president trump to use the Department of Justice 🗣 to OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. It reveals a lot more than that if we care to look. Here is a wee meaningless thread🧵👇🏻

Some may argue the first impeachment of trump for his quid pro quo with Ukraine on a not perfect phone call was meaningless because the Senate had no intention of convicting their golden goose that laid federal judges and tax breaks for donors.

Some may say that impeaching trump for a second time for inciting an Insurrection was meaningless. He was out of office during the Senate trial. Ted Cruz, a sitting juror in the impeachment, was seen providing aid to trump’s lawyers. It was a sham.

If the president can be protected from Impeachment conviction by a complicit Senate, then the power of Impeachment is meaningless. Further, if a memo written by OLC says a sitting President can’t be indicted, then the rule of law is meaningless.

If the president can tell Don McGahn to not comply with a subpoana during his first impeachment, and the former president can just tell his co-conspirators to defy subpoenas looking into his actions that brought about his second impeachment, then subpoenas are meaningless.

If the Department of Justice can be used as a tool to subvert justice, obstruct justice, and provide the foundation to overturn an election by suggesting without evidence there was election fraud, and no one is held accountable, then justice itself Is meaningless.

If holding a political rally on the lawn of the White House is allowed, then the Hatch Act is meaningless. If allowing Mike Flynn to negotiate with the Russian Ambassador about sanctions prior to taking office, then the Logan Act is meaningless.

If the presidents son in law can get a security clearance even though he omitted information from his Sf-86 form (a few times) and the intelligence community recommended against it, then the review process is meaningless.

If the president can make over a billion dollars while his salary is $400,000 per year, then the emoluments clause is meaningless.

If the president has an objectively identifiable personality disorder and is left to wield his narcissism and intransigence to the result of over 400,000 preventable deaths, the 25th Amendment is meaningless.

And now here we are. Mike Flynn is running a psyop, Jared Kushner is starting an investment firm in Saudi Arabia and the twice impeached former president is continuing to spread lies about covid and the election all while the senate holds the country hostage with the filibuster.

These are not small things. But these are things that are happening because we have rendered our own tools meaningless by not using them to mete out consequences. Our failure to hold this GOP, and its cult of personality president accountability must not continue.

The Senate Judiciary report aptly titled ‘Subverting Justice’ reveals the plan. It points us toward the inevitable conclusion that the above erosions lead to. Right now, we have a Judiciary that was packed with Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo’s judges.

All of the above erosions of our democratic principles have left us with a Supreme Court that if given the chance, may have actually been receptive to overturning the election or at the very least lending credibility to some aspects of what trump was up to.

Right now, the only thing standing between trump and the loss of our democracy is what we intend to do about it. We need to prove to ourselves that the last 243 years weren’t meaningless. That the values we say are so important to us that soldiers died for, are not meaningless.

This now resides directly in the Department of Justice. There are over 600 cases associated with the Insurrection. There was a plot to remove the Acting Attorney General if he didn’t sign a letter that would set the predicate for Eastman’s Memo that would overthrow the election.

How can the total sum of these misdeeds not be seen as acts of war against our country? Acts of war against our democracy? Antivaxx, antitruth, antireality messages keeping us sick, misinformed and angry in an effort to keep power sure sound like acts of war.

An Insurrectionist who breached the Capitol Police line, standing in the well of the Senate in fatigues and a battle helmet yelling to other insurrectionists rifling through Senators desks looking for kompromat “this is an IO war, an Information war” sounds like an act of war.

And that leaves us with the only thing we might have left. If a president can be impeached for insurrection after he leaves office, then why can’t he be impeached again for the high crimes and potential acts of Treason revealed in the Subverting Justice report?

If we fail to see his actions for what they are we will lose. Each of these schemes is a battle. They are battles in a war to retain power. Battles in a war to Subvert the Constitution, the Government, the Rule of Law and the Democracy.

The highest criminal offense available for the types of criminal activity we are witnessing is Sedition. The only crime higher than this is listed in the Constitution itself. Treason.

The evidence is mounting that trump, and his allies were engaged in a coup d’etat, an effort to overthrow the government. This is at the very least a high crime. An Insurrection, pressuring DOJ to Subvert Justice, Obstruction of Justice related to the 2016 election, high crimes.

If these high crimes are not punished, then the Constitution itself is meaningless. If trump is again let off the hook, allowed to run for president in 2024 he will win and our democracy will die. Worse, he will be a dictator with an axe to grind. He will consolidate power.

We must use every tool in our toolbox to bring justice to those who would see our democracy die. @January6thCmte has a duty. An imperative to hold trump to account. If you want to know where all this leads, read Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.

If the @January6thCmte and Senate Judiciary fail us, we are done. Enforce the subpoenas.

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If you want to know why I said Mike Flynn is running a Psyop read this.

https://twitter.com/DempseyTwo/status/1427663161348534276

If you want to read more about the Eastman Memo, read this.

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1441029774835523592

If you want to know why the Clark Letter is the Precursor to the Eastman Memo, read this.

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1446238781061976067