It’s always fascinating to me when one of these guys reveals the highly specific evidentiary standard they’ve quietly been using to justify the complete lack of accountability their friends are presiding over.
Let’s say they didn’t plan the violence inside the Capitol blow by blow; they just assembled and riled up a mob, put them on the march to the Hill, and when it turned into the fight their speeches called for, either took no action or restrained efforts to lift the siege. No case?
This sort of thing happened in the Russia case too. It became entirely about cloak and dagger collusion, and the allure and difficulty of proving that scenario subsumed everything else that was right in front of our eyes — like a president welcoming an attack on the United States
Anyways it’s highly effective and I have no doubt it will work again.

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