I was thinking this during the Jack Smith hearing. As I say listening to it, I grew frustrated. The contempt shown for Mr Smith was palpable through the screen.
The primary concern seemed to be non disclosure around the toll records, and them feeling targeted. Instead of having a deeper discussion about that to address the why, they just didn't have it.
Senator Britt's concern was Mr Smith not looking into the partisaness of the investigation that came before him. Didn't give him a chance to speak and address it or have a discussion about it. The thing that bugged me most about it, was that Mr Smith was not doing the typical "talk about something else, insult the question, and run out the clock" games that we've seen recently. He was thoughtful, direct, and stick to the question.
Senator Schmitt? Well, I think we all know how that went. If Senator Schmitt's had better lines of questioning, he would've used them. Instead we got whatever that was. Senator Hawley was similar, just threats and unsubstantiated accusations.
I just don't know what was going on in that hearing. If Mr Smith had been partisan, let him talk and expose himself. That hearing was the opposite of that. I went into that hearing thinking he has was a good prosecutor. After listening to that hearing, I think he is a world class prosecutor that was driving for the truth.
The whole affair was clearly an attempt to trap Smith into perjury. That's why they were trying to get him angry so he thinks less before answering. It is obvious that the Republicans had marching orders from Trump, he is obsessed about punishing anyone who crossed him.
Smith didn't invoke the 5th and answered every question that was asked. They failed.
And it's not "doing it back to them". That would mean Democrats are running fake investigations into innocent people, trying to dig up anything.
Even if you disregard all the crimes Trump and Co are doing in plain sight, Trump's wealth has gone up exponentially since he took office. How? If anything he should have less time to run his businesses, right? At minimum shouldn't someone look into where all that money came from?
Same with his cabinet, all of his family members, all the other goobers dipping their hands into our money. Elon and DOGE alone should have its own investigative committee.
There were ten investigations into the Benghazi matter: one by the FBI; one by an independent board commissioned by the State Department; two by Democrat-controlled Senate Committees; and six by Republican-controlled House Committees.
After the first five Republican investigations found no evidence of wrongdoing by senior Obama administration officials, Republicans in 2014 opened a sixth investigation, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Trey Gowdy.
This investigation also failed to find any evidence of wrongdoing by senior Obama administration officials.
A possible political motive for the investigation was revealed on September 29, 2015, when Republican House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, then vying to become Speaker of the House, told Sean Hannity on Fox News that the investigation was part of a "strategy to fight and win,' adding "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.
What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping."[252][253] The United States Marines responsible for State Department security,[254] the security lapse was called "the result of opportunism" in 2012 by Carney.[255]
I’m fine with a Democratic congress doing this for 2 years, it would be more work than this pathetic Republican congress has done, basically shitting all over the constitution
Hey now! They also ruined historic buildings, wrecked relationships with all of our allies, started multiple wars, and grifted billions from hard-working Americans!
Yeah, keep filing simple bills that help regular Americans, watch republicans block them or vote them down. Simultaneously start gathering evidence for when we can prosecute people m
Yeah, I know this is a one-sided propaganda campaign because it's Fox, but the logical response to anyone making this stupid point about impeachments is simple:
What's the other option? More collapse? More of this monumental disaster that has been this congress and this presidential administration? The crux of what Congress has "accomplished" in these two years has been "Give all of our power to a guy who very likely has dementia"
You go after people like Hegseth. If the Iran war is still going on he might even become a scape goat. Might even be outright fired as the scapegoat for the midterms.
As a Canadian, impeachment of Trump, arrests of him and his entire cabinet, and a solid plan backed by legislation/ constitutional amendments of how this can never happen again, are all required to even begin trusting the US again.
I mean damn, if the entire administration wasn't completely incompetent, evil and up Trump's rump it would've happened a long time ago. Its been less than 2 years and he's done Godzilla levels of damage to the country.
If it can be proven with evidence especially in a court room that crimes were committed then the question becomes why wouldn't you want months and months of impeachments? Asking for anything less makes you traitor imo.
Yes because these criminals deserve to see the consequences of their actions. Unfortunately I doubt many will get the full punishment they truly deserve.
This is for people who don't understand it takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate which is completely unrealistic for the midterms. Which apparently includes a lot of liberals. I'm all for prosecuting Trump and his administration but it's simply not happening in the next two years.
Finally Congress will actually do some work. We have farm welfare and now congress welfare, they hardly work and when they do, you get a joke of a day like yesterday.
They extended Trumps hearings juuust long enough for him to avoid sentencing. If Kamala would have won he would have received sentencing this nightmare wouldn't have happened. Vote against republicans so our own Nuremberg trials can begin.
What every reasonable person in a rule of law society desires is that honesty and fairness prevail and those who committed crime be brought to justice throughout the duration of our life.
It is not a matter of going after the president and his orbit but the justice system tasked with pursuing criminality and bringing those whom have committed crime fulfilling its mandate.
That upholding the rule of law that is a backbone to our society may result in a swath of the Trump orbit facing legitimate legal consequence is just an outcome of properly administered justice.
"Don't do the crime if you don't want to face the time."
"If you elect these guys, you're gonna have YEARS of governance. Wars will end, gas and food prices will go down, and your tax dollars will start helping working class people instead of billionaires and corporations. And they'll start holding people accountable for crimes and corruption. Do you really want this?!?"
And will they discuss WHY they think all this impeachment could happen? What could have led to all the concerns about impeachment. Surely the administration has done everything on the level!?!?
The whole point here as that everyone admits there are impeachable offenses and admits that the cabinet, Trump and a number of GOP in Congress would be locked up. They are confirming that impeachment is absolutely necessary since they have gone too far in their corruption.
We live in a timeline where a corrupt administration can point out that they are corrupt and if they are held accountable then their voters will look bad and won’t be able to stick it to the libs anymore. That is enough to get them to double down and continue to vote against their best interests and the success of this country. This from the party that claims to be patriots.
Considering that imo most of the sitting republicans in government (all 3 branches not just executive and legislative) need to be impeached for wildly and blatantly abusing their power and ignoring their oaths I would be 100% for this.
I mean I get that this is designed to really try and get the core republican vote out to the polls but you would think that they would understand that this is actually motivation for the democrats voters as well as people who may be in the mushy middle but are sick of trump
Investigations into illegal activities. Convictions if people are found guilty of illegal activities. Democrats won’t weaponize the justice department. They are interested in holding people accountable for crimes committed.
Found it dumb my family watched the trials of al these women that were accused of heinous crimes. But maybe I het it now because Id watch these trials with fresh popcorn and coke every night.
They should show them in movie theaters. Box office boom!!!
He forgot, “…and then they’re going to freeze the assets of Trump and all his cronies, and redistribute the wealth and actually Make America Great Again!”
The fact they frame justice and doing the right thing as some major inconvenience. "Months of impeachments." Yes we can't afford to be fucking lazy about this shit. Get the corruption out.
Dems will write another strongly worded letter, pat themselves on the back, and not once pull their tiny little lady balls out. They are on the same side as the republicans, but offer performance opposition. I really hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am.
Please vote, but don’t be frustrated when there is only talk with no teeth if dems take it. They will start the “we need to move forward and come together, both sides” blah blah. Every.single.time.
I'm an independent who desperately wants to see all of that happen. Please. It would change my outlook for the better to finally see some bad things happen to truly bad people.
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u/IndependentTalk4413 4h ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time.