Posted on 07/03/2022 12:18:47 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Schiff is a self important idiot and likes attention enough to take credit for something he can’t do. He also knows that this panel can refer Trump to Garland for a possible indictment. I doubt that will happen because the hogwash presented by their committee may not pass the smell test officially. Face it, no one on that panel is there to challenge the so called evidence or refute any of it.
That said they are hoping their show trial will damage Trump enough so that he will decide to not run.
The midterm elections could be interesting and may determine whether Trump runs.
I hope you’re right, but these are very evil people and they set precedents.
When I said “For now they don’t dare make him a martyr.” I meant to kill him.
“What kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol and further incites that mob when his own vice president is under threat, when the Congress is under threat?” Cheney said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”
The DOJ charged THREE protesters - (out of thousands) of having a gun. One person had a loaded gun and an extra magazine... Check out USA Today link below:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/04/fact-check-fbi-says-bureau-didnt-recover-guns-capitol-riot/4578286001/
The 'weapon' of choice Jan 6 was flagpoles. NO ONE plans an insurrection with flagpoles. Only one loaded gun...
How about feet first no pants on and a ball gag in his mouth, in a fire ant mound
“What kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol...” Cheney said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”
The DOJ charged THREE protesters - (out of thousands) of having a gun. One person had a loaded gun and an extra magazine... Check out USA Today link below:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/04/fact-check-fbi-says-bureau-didnt-recover-guns-capitol-riot/4578286001/
The 'weapon' of choice Jan 6 was flagpoles. NO ONE plans an insurrection with flagpoles. Only one loaded gun...
Are you referring to this individual?
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Ed Buck sentenced to 30 years in prison for abuses that led to men’s drug deaths
BY MATTHEW ORMSETH
STAFF WRITER
Los Angeles Times
APRIL 14, 2022 UPDATED 3:23 PM PT
Ed Buck, once a fixture of West Hollywood’s political scene, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for drug and sex crimes that included providing lethal doses of methamphetamine to two men.
To the outside world, Buck was a champion of causes such as fur bans and AIDS awareness, and a donor to Democratic officeholders.
But behind the walls of his Laurel Avenue apartment was a nightmare. For nearly a decade, the wealthy, white Buck lured young Black men at the lowest points in their lives — homeless, addicted, resorting to subsistence-level sex work — into what he called “party and play” sessions.
Amid squalor that belied his reputation as a man who had achieved great wealth at a young age, Buck plied the men with drugs and then sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious or immobile. In two cases, he injected his victims with fatal amounts of methamphetamine.
A jury convicted Buck last year of a host of felonies, including distributing methamphetamine resulting in death and enticement to cross state lines to engage in prostitution.
In the lead-up to Thursday’s sentencing at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, Buck’s lawyers had asked that the 67-year-old receive a sentence that would one day allow him to return to society, while prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder to send Buck to prison for the rest of his life. Such a sentence was needed not only to punish Buck, they argued, but to protect the public.
“If Buck were ever released,” they wrote, “he would feed his compulsion to inject others until the day he died.”
On Thursday, Chelsea Norell, an assistant U.S. attorney, reiterated the need to put Buck behind bars for good, telling Snyder: “One death is a tragedy, but two is a pattern.”
Buck, speaking in a low, raspy voice, offered his “condolences” to the families of his victims but denied he had caused their deaths. Describing how he had spent much of his life advocating for political causes and gay and animal rights, he asked that Snyder “take a look at my life in total,” and not “the horrible caricature the government painted me as — a meth-fueled ax killer.”
Before sentencing Buck, Snyder said his case was “one of the most difficult and tragic” she had ever presided over.
What has happened here is reprehensible,” she said.
Drug abuse was at the heart of Buck’s sexual behavior, according to testimony and evidence presented at his 2021 trial, which opened a window into a dark subculture of Los Angeles’ gay community.
Buck moved in a world steeped in drugs and defined by power imbalances between the solicitors of sex and the often destitute men who supply it. He advertised on Adam4Adam, a gay hookup site, that he was interested in “party and play” sessions, widely known to mean using methamphetamine during sex.
A parade of men testified that Buck would offer them extra money if they “slammed,” or allowed him to inject them with the drug. In what prosecutors called a “carrot-and-stick approach,” he would sometimes withhold payment if they didn’t smoke enough methamphetamine or let him inject them.
In his squalid apartment, which was littered with drug paraphernalia and sex toys, Buck treated the men “like lab rats in his twisted experiments,” Norell wrote in a sentencing memo.
He drugged them to the limit of their bodies’ tolerance; once they were unconscious or immobile, he sexually assaulted them, choked them, slapped them. One man, injected with something that left him unable to move, managed to regain control of his body only when Buck revved a chain saw in front of him, sending adrenaline coursing.
Buck filmed many of the episodes. In a video played at trial, he gave stage directions to a masked man who was smoking methamphetamine: “Stare directly into the camera, flare your nostrils and blow it out slowly. Now, if you add wide-open eyes to that, it would be a perfect shot.”
Schiff has been saying this now for almost 6 years!
During that period he committed hundreds of crimes like lying to people or sniffing where prohibited, but that ok.
The reason they are hammering the attendees of Jan 6 is to prevent an uprising when they try to put Trump in Jail.
……won’t work
Not for nothing, but Hillary isn’t on that list.
Presumably she could be indicted, tried, convicted, and “LOCK HER UP”, without treading upon the centuries-long tradition you’ve highlighted.
Adam Schiff never tells the truth so why post his nonsense?
GP makes these kind of errors all the time. It’s inexcusable.”
Inexcusable it is. The conservative media does this crap all the time.
IMO its intentional on their part.
They want to stoke the political embers and keep people fired up.
McConnell was also the first individual to refer to Jan Six as an “insurrection”, doing so without a hint of irony, or a tongue in either cheek, directly from his lectern as majority leader that very day, immediately after the previously interrupted joint session of Congress reconvened.
WOLF, damn it. I cried WOLF! /Schiff for brains impression
Discussions of vengeance etc. against Trump only obscure the raw fact that this is a blatant grab for power.
The Jan 6 committee has the same Constitutional authority to indict Trump as I do them, which is zero.
Adumb Schitt should surrender to the nearest conservative DA.
Jan Six is looking increasingly like the U.S. version of Germany’s pre-war Reichstag Fire.
I think it is basically clickbait with all these websites trying to keep themselves going. There is plenty enough truly harmful stuff the left is doing to get people fired up. It just takes a little more talent and discipline to rise above the rest of the pack writing about that stuffm. So, they use sensationalism as a shortcut to get the clicks/money.
Well see, I expect that if Garland doesn't, they actually will. Even if they literally can't. They're crazy.
Good analogy...
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