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The January 6 Select Committee
Abrignac Offline
#1 Posted:
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NPR wrote:
The panel comprises seven Democrats and two Republicans all appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She previously rejected several GOP members originally selected for the panel by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio — citing "statements and actions" made by the pair that she felt would "impact the integrity of the committee." Both Banks and Jordan had publicly expressed concerns over the panel


Sounds like a kangeroo court to me. It’s 💩 like this that will make any findings sound COMPLETELY partisan.
bgz Offline
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Kinda like the supreme court... except for in the one you mentioned, most the people being scrutinized have orange lips...

Oh wait, that's a similarity.

Damn... I used to like cheetos... now they just give me disturbing thoughts.
Dg west deptford Offline
#3 Posted:
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I like those white cheddar cheetos

Does that make me racist?

It's sad to hear about your disturbing TDS though Ben.

Feel better buddy
bgz Offline
#4 Posted:
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Hey, if I see that the sky is blue and I tell you that the sky is blue, it doesn't mean I believe the sky is falling... it's just that the sky... it looks blue...

And I hear you... I really do. I hear you buddy. I hear what you're trying to say.

You too have orange lips.

We can't all be perfect my man.
RayR Offline
#5 Posted:
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Ben has gone off the TDS cliff. Everything orange reminds him of TRUMP. Is there no cure? Is the condition terminal?
bgz Offline
#6 Posted:
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Been hittin' the cheetos Ray?
tailgater Offline
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bgz wrote:
Kinda like the supreme court... except for in the one you mentioned, most the people being scrutinized have orange lips...

Oh wait, that's a similarity.

Damn... I used to like cheetos... now they just give me disturbing thoughts.


Maybe it's where you put them.

RayR Offline
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bgz wrote:
Kinda like the supreme court... except for in the one you mentioned, most the people being scrutinized have orange lips...

Oh wait, that's a similarity.

Damn... I used to like cheetos... now they just give me disturbing thoughts.


I heard the lizard people want to pack the Supreme Court like they packed the Kangaroo Court.
bgz Offline
#9 Posted:
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RayR wrote:
I heard the lizard people want to pack the Supreme Court like they packed the Kangaroo Court.


With all your hate and anger, sounds like they packed you out behind the basketball court.
RayR Offline
#10 Posted:
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bgz wrote:
With all your hate and anger, sounds like they packed you out behind the basketball court.


Don't hate me because I hate the lizard people. 🦎
bgz Offline
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RayR wrote:
Don't hate me because I hate the lizard people. 🦎


In the set of all people and all lizard people, how big in percentage is the people subset that are not lizard people vs lizard people?

Expecting him to plead the 5th here.... (rule #5).
RayR Offline
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You shall know the lizard people by the tainted fruit of their labors Grasshopper .🦎
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Kinda a #5 with just a dash of #6 for seasoning
bgz Offline
#14 Posted:
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Yep, yep... kinda weak compared to some of his other samples...
Speyside2 Offline
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What are the final stages of a brain Tumour?
These symptoms include drowsiness, headaches, cognitive and personality changes, poor communication, seizures, delirium (confusion and difficulty thinking), focal neurological symptoms, and dysphagia. Some patients may have several of these symptoms, while others may have none.

Just sayin
HockeyDad Offline
#16 Posted:
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Speyside2 wrote:
What are the final stages of a brain Tumour?
These symptoms include drowsiness, headaches, cognitive and personality changes, poor communication, seizures, delirium (confusion and difficulty thinking), focal neurological symptoms, and dysphagia. Some patients may have several of these symptoms, while others may have none.

Just sayin


“It’s not a tumor” ~ President Biden
Sunoverbeach Offline
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"It's not a tumah" - Detective John Kimble
Speyside2 Offline
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I'll take the 5th about the 6th!
JGKAMIN Offline
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Abrignac wrote:
Sounds like a kangeroo court to me. It’s 💩 like this that will make any findings sound COMPLETELY partisan.

Especially when the 2 supposed Republicans are RINOs.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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My job is secure. No one else wants it.
DrMaddVibe Offline
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What is Adam Schiff Hiding?



Schiff tucked an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act that would prohibit any evidence collected in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act from being used in investigations. Why?

The then-acting attorney general—Rosen was appointed on December 24, 2020 to replace departing Attorney General William Barr—had assembled a team of elite and highly skilled government agents at Quantico, a nexus point between the FBI and U.S. military, the weekend before Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. At the same time he was rejecting President Donald Trump’s last-minute appeals to investigate election fraud, Rosen was managing a hush-hush operation in advance of planned rallies and protests in Washington on January 6.

“Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to deploy Justice Department and so-called ‘national’ forces,” Newsweek reporter William M. Arkin disclosed in a bombshell report earlier this year. “There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department—in fact, no external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the special operations forces lurking behind the scenes.”

Those assets, according to Arkin, included “commandos” with shoot-to-kill authority. And among them were members of the military.

“The presence of these extraordinary forces under the control of the Attorney General—and mostly operating under contingency plans that Congress and the U.S. Capitol Police were not privy to—added an additional layer of highly armed responders,” Arkin writes. “The role that the military played in this highly classified operation is still unknown, though FBI sources tell Newsweek that military operators seconded to the FBI, and those on alert as part of the National Mission Force, were present in the metropolitan area.”

Little else is known about Rosen’s secret mission. His testimony to the House Oversight Committee in May 2021 was just as obscure. Rosen, who publicly bragged to the January 6 select committee about his attempts to deter Team Trump from pursuing vote fraud days before the Capitol protest, said the FBI opened a multi-agency operation center, which included the Department of Defense, at FBI headquarters on January 5. “Each of these federal agencies supplied personnel to staff the [center] 24/7 beginning on January 5 and 6, and continuing for a period thereafter,” he said.

To avoid “interfering” in ongoing investigations, Rosen then declined to answer any questions from lawmakers at the time.

But if the military engaged in any civilian law enforcement activity, including surveillance or intelligence collection, before or during January 6, it would represent an egregious violation of the military’s code of conduct and federal law. Under the Posse Comitatus Act, military personnel cannot be used as local cops or investigators: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.” (Certain exclusions, such as the president’s invocation of the Insurrection Act and any use of the National Guard, apply.)

The law is both vague and specific at the same time—which brings us to Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Irrefutably the least trustworthy member of Congress, Schiff tucked an amendment into the massive National Defense Authorization Act that would prohibit any evidence collected in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act from being used in a number of proceedings, including criminal trials and congressional investigations.

The amendment’s timing, like everything else related to the infamous Russian collusion huckster, evidence forger, and nude photo seeker (to name a few of Schiff’s special talents), is highly suspect. Why would Schiff need to outlaw evidence collected unlawfully? Why is Schiff relying on this relatively arcane statute passed during Reconstruction that is rarely, if ever, enforced?

“No one has ever been convicted of violating PCA to my knowledge,” Dr. Jeffrey Addicott, a 20-year member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and director of the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary’s College, told American Greatness last week.

What is Adam Schiff, on behalf of the Biden regime and Trump foes in the U.S. military, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, trying to hide?

It is not a coincidence that Schiff introduced the amendment just a few months before a predicted Republican landslide in November, which will give control of Congress back to the GOP. House Minority Leader and presumptive Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is planning to conduct multiple investigations into the Biden regime next year including of the deadly and distrasrous withdrawal from Afghanistan; the Daily Caller reported this week that Republican lawmakers are “flooding the Biden administration with ‘hundreds of preservation notices’ asking that relevant documents be preserved.”

But one can easily see how Schiff’s amendment could be used as legislative cover to prevent production of any materials from Biden’s Department of Defense. After all, according to a 2018 congressional analysis of Posse Comitatus, “compliance [of the act] is ordinarily the result of military self-restraint.” So, too, is enforcement: “The act is a criminal statute under which there has been but a handful of known prosecutions,” the same report explained.

This is the sort of vehicle that Democrats know how to use and exploit for political advantage. If interpretation and enforcement is totally arbitrary, who decides? Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin? The Justice Department? Biden’s White House lawyers?

Imagine how Democrats could conceal the use of military personnel related to the events of January 6. Congressional Republicans send a request to Austin seeking all records, documents, and communications pertaining to the military’s involvement before and during the Capitol protest. Austin replies that he has determined the military—under control of President Trump at the time, no less—violated Posse Comitatus and therefore the requested materials cannot be produced under authority of the Schiff amendment.

Republicans can howl and scream but they have no legal remedy. Austin won’t investigate and Attorney General Merrick Garland won’t prosecute.

This scenario could be repeated for every Republican inquiry into Biden’s Defense Department. Does anyone really think this regime will hand over information to GOP investigators and committees without pulling every trick in the book, starting with Schiff’s amendment?

On Thursday afternoon, the House narrowly passed Schiff’s amendment by a vote of 215-213; every Republican and two Democrats voted no. (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to the floor to vote in a rare move.) Passage in the Senate is uncertain.

If his amendment fails to advance, Schiff nonetheless has done Republicans a tremendous favor; he’s tipped off the GOP that there’s plenty of digging to be done at the Department of Defense, where a trove of scandals awaits political sunshine.

Republicans would be wise to take his cue—and start with January 6.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/14/what-is-adam-schiff-hiding/


Yeah...everything they accuse people of...they're doing themselves. Best wake up, the lies aren't going to stop.
ZRX1200 Offline
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He just looks like a POS….
Burner02 Offline
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
What is Adam Schiff Hiding?


Not that he is a POS liar.

Must be all of the Russia, Russia, Russia evidence that he has and never released.




rfenst Offline
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Schiff bad.
Criminals should excused?
Burner02 Offline
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The Most Important Story From The January 6 Hearings

By Brad Schaeffer-DailyWire.com

As anyone with a TV or newspaper well knows, the news media have relentlessly pounded us with coverage of the January 6 Congressional hearings. ABC Nightly News has at times devoted almost a third of their airtime to reportage from the Capitol, complete with Jon Karl shamelessly plugging his book while ostensibly pretending to be a man on the scene reporter (“As I write in my book, Betrayal…”). Every major TV network but Fox carved out blocks of their prime-time space in an attempt to recapture the glory of the Watergate years. And, of course, the cable news networks are in a lather.

What happened on January 6 was indeed big news. It was very ugly. It was also a futile gesture. And it handed the Democrats – the very people many storming the Capitol believed to have illegitimately attained power through ballot box chicanery – talking points to carry them right through to the midterms. Anyone thinking rationally that day should have seen it. But, from Donald Trump on down, we see that rationality gave way to raw emotion and a frustration that stemmed from utter disbelief that over 81 million could cast their ballot for an uninspiring, corrupt septuagenarian, who is the consummate DC insider. Not to mention a candidate so obviously mentally enfeebled that he was relegated to meticulously choreographed Q&A sessions from his basement with journalists so overtly biased they may as well have been on the DNC payroll. And who knows, maybe they were?

And that last observation presents us with the bigger story of the riots. There are questions looming above the January 6 events that are more salient than the information being gathered in the hearings. They have to do with vital American institutions themselves. First and foremost, the press. No republic like ours can last without a diligent media questioning authority and keeping them at bay; human nature will always gravitate towards the accumulation of power if left unchecked. The Framers understood this. And yet the difference in coverage between the four-hour January 6 riots and those that occurred throughout the nation during the year preceding these events is telling, and disturbing for those who believe in the vital necessity of the Fourth Estate.

In 2020 over 200 cities were the scenes of riotous behavior, looting, vandalism and arson. Over two dozen innocents like Italia Kelly and David Dorn were murdered in cold blood. Police headquarters as well as businesses were set ablaze. Some 1,000 police officers were assaulted, and roughly $2 billion in property damage occurred, mostly in minority neighborhoods.

And yet, the same media that seems so hellbent to crucify the man who took a selfie in Pelosi’s office performed rhetorical yoga that would make a swami wince when reporting the stories of the mass lawlessness across the country – some of it literally going on right behind the very reporters who with a straight face called them, and this is my favorite from CNN, “fiery but mostly peaceful protests.” Sure, and but for that unfortunate Booth-Lincoln incident, all-in-all the night out at Ford’s Theater was pretty fun.

Publications like the Washington Post went out of their way to declare that the protests were “overwhelmingly non-violent.” That only seven percent of the estimated 15 to 26 million people who hit the streets engaged in rank criminality. So that means only between a mere one and two million torched and ransacked their own cities? Well, that’s a relief. Yet, were one to use these same soothing parameters as a measure of the “peacefulness” of the January 6 gathering, what percent of the estimated 120,000 who marched in D.C. to protest what they believed to be a fraudulent election actually stormed the Capitol? As of this writing, 884 have been arrested and charged.

I’m no math wizard, but that means of the 120,000 in D.C. that day, it wasn’t seven percent who were lawless, but rather seven-tenths of one percent. Bump it up to an estimated 2,000 who actually stormed the Capitol itself. That’s one-and-a-half percent. Yet, the media was loath to call it an “overwhelmingly peaceful” protest. Why? Because this doesn’t suit the narrative the Democrats wish to impose upon the country through their reliable conduits in the newsroom.

Such obvious water-carrying for one party might be behind a new Gallup poll showing Americans’ trust in the news media is at an all-time low. Of self-identified Republicans, only five percent trust newspapers and eight percent trust TV news. This is to be somewhat expected as conservatives have for decades had to wade through the now flagrant but always present left-wing bias in the newsrooms. But more tellingly, of Democrats, only 35% trust newspapers and a mere 20% trust TV news. Even they get it.

This collapse in media trust, and the broader erosion of journalistic standards of objectivity and proper sourcing (see: Russia collusion hoax) as relates to such an important foundation upon which any nation run by flawed human beings must rest, is being played out in the January 6 hearings. Americans wonder, why do these people care so much about what happened for four hours in one city in one day, wherein the only person to die was a four-tour veteran shot by a criminally trigger-happy Capitol Hill policeman (who was never prosecuted, of course) and so little about our nation’s cities in flames from coast-to-coast for eight months? Why did the media happily proffer the demonstrable lie, one which Pelosi still shamelessly touts, that four officers died that day? Why do they care so much about a man in a horn hat roaming the Capitol yet actively suppress a story of the president’s own son’s validated laptop implicating a then sitting vice president, and now titular president, in a lucrative influence peddling scheme with our enemies? Why does the media do the bidding of the very State apparatus it is supposed to diligently police?

What we have seen in the January 6 process is more akin to a Stalinesque show trial. The Democrats are mining the hearings for political ore so as to distract Americans’ attention from the staggeringly disastrous Biden (or whomever is pulling his strings) presidency thus far. And if it serves to put those who would dare threaten their power on notice by making examples of imprisoning the likes of Steve Bannon—not my favorite guy, but clearly a pawn in a larger game—who dare challenge their authority and, the worst crime of all, supported Donald Trump, then all the better.

Meanwhile, a press that will devote precious air-time to cover the Bannon story shows no curiosity at all as to how we have a former NSA and CIA director who blatantly perjured themselves before Congress walking free without consequence. Indeed, as if to underscore the nation’s suspicion that the media is nothing more than an appendage of the State, they now serve as paid consultants with CNN and MSNBC respectively. Nothing to see here. On the other hand, Michael Flynn, a decent and honorable military man who chose the wrong president to serve, had his life ruined for far less.

As is the mantra of all tinhorn dictatorships that seems to guide the dangerously politicized Department of Justice these days: “For my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law.” The same now could be said of the press. For their friends “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” and paid consultant gigs. For their enemies, a hyperbolic comparison to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, and a gleefully covered perp walk.

Although an estimated 17 million Americans have watched the hearings, most polls indicate that, but for an erosion of support for Trump himself (which actually plays into GOP hands as they believe he is the only one who could lose to Biden in a free and fair election), the political needle hasn’t budged. The reason could be that many Americans now view the reporting of said hearings through the lens of the skeptic and the cynic. They know that, with a media that votes for and contributes to one party in vast numbers, they are as likely to be subject to that party’s propaganda as hard news. And it gets exhausting constantly trying to filter out the former to find the latter. So they have thrown up their hands and said, I’ll watch you and read you, but I won’t trust you.

Without trust, the press is impotent and doomed. Without the press, the Republic will continue to decay. Maybe, in a way, that is the most important message of January 6 being lost in all the noise of Liz Cheney’s self-serving moralizing and Adam Schiff’s serial mendacity. The riot wasn’t so much an attempt to overthrow the government, as it was a manifestation of the collective mistrust of our most vital institutions. A desperate cry out that something is rotten at the very core of this nation. And most disconcerting to anyone who cares about the future of the country, if history is any guide, such mass public mistrust can only be held at bay for so long.

If the news media really wanted to get to the heart of the January 6 story, this is what they would be investigating. But that would mean investigating themselves.
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Getting ALL of the evidence out there? Investigating themselves?

What is this silliness you speak of?
Burner02 Offline
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Getting ALL of the evidence out there? Investigating themselves?

What is this silliness you speak of?




The truth!
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Burner02 wrote:
The truth!



You've forgotten Rule #1.


"We do not negotiate with terrorists"

The DNC is a terrorist organization.

I'm not kidding. Look at their history, the way they behave and the harm they have caused America.
Burner02 Offline
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
You've forgotten Rule #1.

"We do not negotiate with terrorists"


You forget that Obama flipped the script giving the left a new way forward.
RayR Offline
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The only rule D.C. reptiles believe in is rules are meant to be broken. 🦎
bgz Offline
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I'm starting to rethink my position on lizard people.

I think it's possible that RayR might be a plant lizard people put here to make people think lizard people are absurd.

The greatest triumph of the lizard people was to convince you that the lizard people don't exist.

RayR is a lizard people.
HockeyDad Offline
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bgz wrote:
I'm starting to rethink my position on lizard people.

I think it's possible that RayR might be a plant lizard people put here to make people think lizard people are obserd.

The greatest triumph of the lizard people was to convince you that the lizard people don't exist.

RayR is a lizard people.


That would be something lizard people would do. It’s plausible.
Speyside2 Offline
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He is a plant, government lizard people are so menial that they barely count. The true power is the unseen world cabal. Underground, unseen, not mentioned. Yet he only mentions the obvious. On the other hand who would benefit most from total anarchy? Lizard people. Imagine that.
RayR Offline
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Nice try but you reptoids are pathetic as always with your conspiracy theories.🦎
Brewha Offline
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Abrignac wrote:
Sounds like a kangeroo court to me. It’s 💩 like this that will make any findings sound COMPLETELY partisan.

Have you watched it?
Brewha Offline
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bgz wrote:
Been hittin' the cheetos Ray?

I think is is called "smoking the big cheeto"
bgz Offline
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Even that is orange?
Brewha Offline
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I am McLovin’ this. All these MAGA Spankies crying “witch hunt” no matter the evidence or who said it.

Trump tried to block the certification?
Trump said he “loved” the people who overran the White House and that they were ”very special”??
Trump lied about the election results in order to invite insurrection???

Obviously all partisan - sh1t.



What a bunch of chumps.
delta1 Offline
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He approved that the crowd of his followers wanted to hang Mike Pence, who he said deserved it...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/jan-6-hearing-trump-thought-pence-deserved-chants-to-hang-him-aide-says.html


do Americans really support a man who wanted to see his VP lynched?


this House committee has turned over more factual evidence in a couple months than the House committees looking into Hillary did in two years...history will show which was the real witch hunt...
RayR Offline
#40 Posted:
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Delta and Brewha, yooz guys spend way too much time on gossip and speculating about all those vast right-wing conspiracy theories when the real world action is with the Biden Crime regime and its extended DNC family. I know...I know that makes for uncomfortable thoughts, like questioning your sanity for supporting bad men.

If there is one reason Pence deserves to be lynched, it's because he is a walking talking cure for insomnia. Sleep
bgz Offline
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delta1 wrote:
He approved that the crowd of his followers wanted to hang Mike Pence, who he said deserved it...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/jan-6-hearing-trump-thought-pence-deserved-chants-to-hang-him-aide-says.html


do Americans really support a man who wanted to see his VP lynched?


this House committee has turned over more factual evidence in a couple months than the House committees looking into Hillary did in two years...history will show which was the real witch hunt...


To be fair, Hillary could possibly be a real witch, Trump is just a criminal.
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