Posted on 12/06/2022 7:42:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It was just a matter of time before the January 6th committee did what it was always going to do. Namely, announce criminal referrals in relation to the unrest at the Capitol following the 2020 election.
On Tuesday, Chairman Bennie Thompson made it official, telling reporters that referrals were on the way and would be submitted as a separate document from the committee’s report.
House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals, chairman says https://t.co/esCgI5qvlk
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) December 6, 2022
Thompson didn’t announce exactly who the criminal referrals will target, but it’s not exactly a secret that Donald Trump is in the crosshairs. As the CNN article notes, the committee’s members have been in wide agreement that they feel the former president committed a crime. The lack of evidence to support such a contention hasn’t stopped them before and I see no reason to believe it’ll stop them now.
In short, Donald Trump is trouble, and that becomes clear when you take a step back and take a look at all the moving parts. Yes, the January 6th committee is a cog in all this, but it’s not the only one. The timing of the DOJ’s new special counsel targeting Trump isn’t a coincidence, and sure enough, on the same day Cheney and company announced criminal referrals were coming, here’s what the DOJ was working on.
BREAKING: DOJ special counsel subpoenas officials in several states, asking for communications with or involving former President Donald Trump, campaign aides and allies involved in his efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election.
https://t.co/X3mt3xX48u— The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2022
A revival of New York State’s criminal case against Trump also happened in the last month. Again, none of these things are happening separately from one another. It’s all part of a slow-moving operation to take down the former president once and for all. The January 6th committee is mostly theater, but the DOJ is playing off that theater to build its case and turn public opinion.
There’s only one outcome here: Donald Trump is going to be indicted.
And while I’ve often said that would be stupid as a matter of law, at the end of the day, nothing I or anyone else has to say really matters. The DOJ is hellbent on finishing what it started way back in 2016, and no amount of calling them corrupt is going to change that.
That leads me to my last point. A lot of people on the right, myself included, have begun the debate on who should be the Republican nominee in 2024. The typical points of tension revolve around whether Donald Trump has what it takes to put together a winning coalition. But amidst the various factions yelling at each other about matchup hypotheticals, the elephant in the room is being ignored: Donald Trump is going to be indicted, and there is no chance a DC jury doesn’t convict him of whatever the DOJ puts in front of them.
The only question left in my mind is whether the government officials behind that drive are going to time things so that Trump is already the nominee when he’s indicted, essentially leaving Republicans without a candidate for the 2024 election. The trap is being baited, and that’s going to leave some tough decisions ahead for the GOP.
Trump or nothing
So the fags and pedophiles finally got Trump, Huh? It only took the dumb bastards six years. Morons. LOL.
There is no crime so there is no criminal charge.
RE: finally got Trump,
For what exactly? Inquiring minds want to know.
This man is an idiot
We’ll have to wait until they release their indictments to find out. Probably indicted him for not being a fag.
I don’t doubt there will be referrals, but where in the CNN article does it quote Thompson saying that. I’ve read it ten times it says a reporter said he said it. There are other quotes in there, why not this one?
Trump or nothing. Accept no substitutes.
How can he be indicted for something that he would have immunity from as per the Constitution? Also, why can't he pardon himself after he left office if they are going to indict him after the fact?
And isn't the method of removing him Impeachment which was done illegally after he had left office. It was so bad the Chief Justice of the United States refused to oversee the debacle?
This has so many things wrong with it because they are reaching so hard. Talk about creating a Constitutional crisis these people are nutz!
Trump should make their heads explode by saying he pardoned himself while in office.
The liarcrats, of both parties, are the only ones guilty of seditious conspiracy.
Not Trump.
Yes they are "nutz", and they are very busy.
Agree...
If it was just this, I think Trump would fight it out, but if they go after his kids, that could be the ballgame.
His kids for what?
Legally nothing changes, but politically all the nevertrumpers and fair weather trump supporters will have cover to come out against him, deny him and his campaign access to resources, target and smear every campaign worker, activist or volunteer, and in some cases like in 2016 with crossfire hurricane, make up their own bogus charges against those people, either to use government resources to surveil the campaign, or to use law enforcement to harrass them. And as proven repeatedly, DC judges can and will do anything needed to support the establishment and DC juries are gleeful in supporting politically driven prosecutions.
The dems have learned from their mistakes of 2016 (well, Hillary hasn't, but as Biden has proven, the dems can rally around a sack of potatoes if need be). The republicans haven't learned from the failures of 2018, 2020 and 2022, and Trump himself has not learned from the failures of 2020. Whatever the 2024 primary season is going to be, the dems and the establishment are going to ensure that even if Trump isn’t the nominee (I think he will be, barring a medical issue), it will be Trump on the ballot and it will be a circus.
“Actually indicting Trump makes him almost unbeatable.”
Would love to hear more thought process on this...
BS. The opposite. Indicting Trump makes him a shoe in. He will be the next President. You Republican mainstreamers are burning your bridges stabbing Trump in the back. I f’g hate the GOPer with TDS at this point.
Do you think anything he says on Truth Social isn’t immediately posted on Twitter?
Was there ever any doubt that this administration would indict DJT?
The only way he could have avoided indictment would be if he had withdrawn from politics completely. And they still might have indicted out of pure nastiness.
Beria rules.
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