• Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    We just don’t have public info that directly links Trump himself to the people who literally planned murder that day.

    Cool, that’s what I’ve been saying - based on the public evidence there’s nothing that can put Trump in jail for inciting an insurrection.

    That’s how close we came to a successful coup.

    You think a bunch of people breaking in to a building and taking selfies is a coup? Come on…really? How exactly do you guys think that this “insurrection” and “coup” was actually going to overthrow the government?

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      1 year ago

      Make no mistake, we do have quite a bit of public evidence of his coup attempts.

      And the public information we do have on Jan 6th alone is pretty damning as well. Just watch or read the Jan 6th committee reports.

      Trump knew damn well he was starting a riot, and had to be forced to call it off, but only did so when he was told that it had failed.

      Kevin McCarthy even called Trump during the riot, begging him to call it off, and Trump said no.

      All we lacked, was a direct tie between Donald Trump himself and the Oath Keepers/Proud Boys. You know, the worst of the people with pre-meditated plans to break into the capital building. The people who had capture/kill lists that included prominent democratic representatives and also Mike Pence, who Trump tweeted “had let them down”. Which only fueled the riot more.

      The Jan 6th report has everything else. Trump planned the riot, he planned to send his followers to the capital, he planned that part weeks in advance.

      His close advisors then went on random conspiracy media appearances and used phrases like “this is 1776”.

      So you had weeks of Trump building up his lies and the violent rhetoric, and then on the day of the speech, he sends the crowd to the capital screaming that they had to “fight like hell” or else they wouldn’t have a country anymore.

      Trump then tried to have his driver take him to watch the chaos unfold.

      And then people like you, who would have been in the capital building that day hunting for Mike Pence, come out and say “no it wasn’t an attempt to violently overthrow the government, we swear”.

      Face it, the Orange would be tyrant is going to prison. Hopefully for the rest of his life. However long that is, for his bloated ass.

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        1 year ago

        Sigh.

        Again - I wouldn’t vote for trump in a million years. The guy is a moron. No, I would not have been there hunting for mike pence.

        You guys need to stop the baseless accusations.

        The Jan 6 Committee was a democrat PR job, nothing more. It was made by the democrats, for the democrats. Everyone knew what the outcome was going to be the second it was announced. Shockingly, the expected outcome was the outcome you got lol. Just like any companies “we investigated ourself and found we did no wrongdoing”, the democrats investigated the republican president and found he was a very naughty boy and of course was guilty of what they wanted him to be guilty of.

        Trump can rot in jail for the rest of his life for all I care. It doesn’t affect me. All I care about is the fairness of proceedings.

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          A Democrat PR job? They compiled a very thorough report that laid out exactly what Trump was doing, with full context. The fact that most Republicans refused to even join the committee when asked was telling. It says that almost all Republicans are okay with coup attempts if it’s a Republican making the attempt.

          Trump literally tried several coup strategies. Do you remember the Raffensperger phone call? Trump’s “perfect phone call”?

          That was a coup attempt.

          When it failed, he tried again, and again, and that all lead to the coup attempt on Jan 6th.

          The fact that you’re still trying to deflect and defend Trump is telling. Claiming that it’s “not fair” when the fucker should be in jail awaiting trial. That would be fair.