Summary
Democrats blame Attorney General Merrick Garland for delaying prosecution of Donald Trump over the January 6 Capitol attack, allowing him to win reelection before facing trial.
Critics argue Garland wasted critical time before appointing a special prosecutor in late 2022, enabling Trump to evade accountability due to DOJ policy barring prosecution of sitting presidents.
While Trump faces ongoing civil lawsuits, his return to power threatens pardons for convicted rioters and continued revisionism about the attack.
Despite public disapproval of Trump’s actions, he successfully leveraged misinformation to regain the presidency.
No shit, we should have prosecuted and jailed him the second that shit happened. Instead, we spent the entire time debating whether a president can be prosecuted, and then concluded, nah bro, presidents can’t be prosecuted, lol.
They let Hitler go free too (though he did do jail time). That turned out well.
the road to fascism is paved by the judiciary
If you all haven’t already, I’d like to suggest that you create a PAC for running for president. This is your license to commit federal crimes without any consequences.
State crimes TBD in a few weeks.
You have to be a Republican, though.
Easy enough to chuck a couple of bucks toward the GOP. For the sake of committing major crimes against the federal government, might be worth it.
Yes, anyone who would need to do this is already the type of criminal the GOP loves, so it’s win-win!
i don’t know whats worse: that this happened, or that i don’t know a single person irl who isn’t just pretending like nothing happened and everything is going to be fine–even staunchly liberal antitrumpers
What are you expecting them to be doing instead? What are you doing differently than them?
organize, prepare, contingency planning-- but it’s tough for one person acting alone because everyone just doesn’t want to think about unpleasant things. so they don’t.
This is the key question…
The “don’t look up” phase
and then Biden proved how weak he is by not immediately using that free pass to solve the problem.