r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 15d ago

Possible Paywall Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt

https://newrepublic.com/post/215971/jack-smith-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-donald-trump-guilt
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 15d ago

Most of congress was there on Jan 6 and had to barricade themselves against the Lynch mob trump sent at them personally.

And then 2 days later 99% of Republicans refused to convict and remove trump from office when he had only 11 days left in his term.

No amount of pressure will get conservatives to act against trump. He is their cult leader.

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u/unmotivatedbacklight 15d ago

What kind of dirt do you think Trump has on Republicans to keep them in line like that?

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 15d ago edited 15d ago

Well a whole bunch of them were against him in 2016, and then Russia hacked both the DNC and GOP email servers, but only released the DNCs email.

And then all the anti trump life long Russia Hawks did a 180 and supplicated to trump and started showing up in Moscow on July 4 when summoned by Putin.

If I were to place a serious bet about what it was exactly, I'd say probably top Republicans explicitly talking about slashing US Embassy security budgets in order to provoke a deadly attack on Americans in order to get ammo to rail on Obama, which they did in 2014, 2 years before the hack. This would be proof that the attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi was a GOP design to attack Obama and his admin, who had just passed transformational policy on healthcare.

That and I'm positive the GOP knowingly and explicitly taking cash from hostile foreign governments and a whole massive pile of illegal backchanneling.

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u/unmotivatedbacklight 15d ago

Oh yeah, I remember Lindsey Graham saying "Trump is terrible, don't support him. Vote me out if I'm wrong."

And then...proceeded to attach his lips to Trump's giant orange cheeks.

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u/dmukya 15d ago

The public voting logs are a big problem. It would simply require a majority vote to modify the rules of procedure to change it so voting could be anonymized. Conservative senators are terrified of his cult.