Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.
Jack Smith’s report (***the report is 174 pages long) detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday.
Following the insurrection on 6 January, 2021, Smith was appointed as special counsel to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His investigation culminated in a detailed report, submitted to the attorney general, Merrick Garland.
Volume one of the report meticulously outlines Trump’s actions, including his efforts to pressure state officials, assemble alternate electors and encourage supporters to protest against the election results.
Well yes. I guess I was just assuming here on lemmy most people making that argument are claiming to be on the left, which is a smaller part of the problem.
Prior to the election, it seemed to me like there was a lot of astroturfing going on here; comments encouraging protest votes against Harris since she was “guaranteed to win anyway” and “one vote doesn’t matter”. I’m not sure how it was in other places, but it seemed like a concerted campaign to discourage voting for Harris, and then after the election, no comments on actually what to do now to help Palestinians.
Yes, exactly yes to all this. There are still a few third party people lurking and all those plus the astroturfers can fuck off