Posted on 07/13/2022 6:33:52 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) said Tuesday during ABC’s coverage of the January 6 House Select Committee hearing that although it was politically devastating to Donald Trump, it also showed a Trump indictment would be “very tough” to get legally.
Anchor David Muir said, “What did you make of what you heard today?”
Heitkamp said, “I think it’s devastating to the former president. And these events, we’re covering them a lot like a trial, but they really are a political event. I think the president, the former president, sees his popularity waning, and it’s no small amount of publicity that he’s getting here in terms of his unwillingness to see a rational argument when it’s presented to them. So I think that’s politically, and that’s the way I look at these hearings. I think this has been devastating to the former president. Whether it’s going to have an effect on the midterms, I think, remaining to be seen. But as people still stand fast with the former president, I think that there’s going to be a need, eventually, for the party and for people like Kevin McCarthy to start distancing themselves. These are devastating revelations about the president’s behavior. I think Liz Cheney tried to get at that point that this is not someone who was duped. This is somebody who was leading the charge for an insurrection.”
She added, “It’s going to be up to the Justice Department. I agree with Dan. I think everything as a former prosecutor myself, everything that I’ve heard, I think it would be a very tough indictment to get, but I also think it would be tough, I think it would be very, very difficult, knowing what we know right now to see an indictment of this president.”
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Bwahahahaa, as if they would allow him to defend himself.
When are the members of President Trump’s Secret Service detail going to publicly testify about what really happened on Jan 6th. ???????? I’m not holding my breath.
RATs and RINOS fear Trump.
That's a fact. Just the excerpts I've heard of Cheney leading the witness make me sick. Still, many people are being convinced, but Garland has to know that it's not going to play out with both sides presented. He will take the heat and the left will claim that Trump got away with murder.
Kamala, is that you?
Oh, no. I see the use of an expanded vocabulary, substituting the word 'difficult' rather than a third use of 'tough' in the same sentence. Must be someone with superior intellect to Kamala Harris...
Well that proves it then. Hes an insurrectionist
A one sided “trial” with no defense witnesses is devastating? They see what they want to see and ignore the obvious or edit out what they don’t want to consider.
It was DEVASTATING, and the walls are closing in!
“But as people still stand fast with the former president, I think that there’s going to be a need, eventually, for the party and for people like Kevin McCarthy to start distancing themselves.”
Sure. Let the RINOs “distance themselves” all the way to the Democrat party. Good riddance.
They have only convicted the small fry that were at the he Capitol.
They will have failed without the orange man bad scape and everyone knows it.
2012 Nominee Heidi Heitkamp Rick Berg Party Democratic-NPL Republican Popular vote 161,337 158,401 Percentage 50.2% 49.3%
Nominee Barack Obama Mitt Romney Popular vote 124,966 188,320 Percentage 38.7% 58.3%
Even some of the Republicans the state elects are nothing to brag about. The current governor and close friend of Bill Gates is Exhibit A.
Yeah amazing how many democrat candidates seem to increasingly defy all formerly reliable election indicators that don’t go their way.
You thought 81 million was a miracle, wait until ‘24.
300 million.
These hearings are not politically devastating to President Trump - far from it - they actually help him.
For centuries the American public has mocked and made fun of third world countries and their Kangaroo courts. We have mocked and castigated Banana Republics and petty dictators. We know what a sho trial looks like.
The American people have been slow to recognize the threat of tyranny from within, but the Democrats are making it much easier to spot.
These Jan 6th hearings, the two fake impeachments, the stolen election and gaslighting and censorship that followed - this is not a good look for the Democrats. These hearings are being run exactly like Stalin’s show trials. There are no rebuttal witnesses, no cross examinations, no equal representation.
Plenty of voters are too dumb to get what’s going on, that’s true. But there are also plenty who do get it - and I think there will be a huge political backlash against Democrats for the choices they have made.
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