Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - “ It was a violent insurrection”

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  1. mdrobster

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    Both of them allowed Trump to get out of hand, it is about time.
     
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    grapeape Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ahhhh, now it’s about Trump again…

    You may want to red the FBI report. They said it was not enough evidence that it was a single coordinated attack. They said It was a very disjointed attack by MANY groups, all with different levels of coordination and goals.
     
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    grapeape Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I will have to find where he said that. Impeachment is purely a political process, so not sure how that would stop a legal proceeding. But I also believe that Trump will never be legally charged with anything, but I also believe that most presidents are above the law and will never be legally held liable in any criminal court. Nixon, Clinton both should be in jail because what they did was criminal, but they wont ever because the powers that be believe that would be bad for America
     
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    America 1st sounds too much like “O’doyle Rules!!”. Can’t we get a slogan that doesn’t sound like it was made on a school playground? Something that shows leadership on the world stage rather than makes us look like some Scrooge like miserly country that is giving the rest of the world the finger.
    Oil independence is a lie, and a path that will soon guarantee we fall from greatness. The time of fossil fuels is at an end. We need to find new energy sources. I believe fusion is the answer. Europe is making huge strides in this direction.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633
     
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    No way McConnell is that stupid..... he knew then and knows today that impeachment wouldn't stop a legal process. He just wanted to get that decision out of his extensive lap...

    He stood on the thinnest of rationales for not impeaching, that it was too late to impeach, essentially giving Presidents carte blanche to do pretty much anything during the transition period (which I think we can all agree is ridiculously long)

    Indefensible decision, if he TRULY thought:

    A: 1/6 was a "violent insurrection" and B: T**** was "practically and morally responsible" (Both direct quotes)
     
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    Its mid-term year, and they people crunching the data to figure out which stance brings in more votes and it seems they figure most prefer the GOP openly admit Jan-6 was what it was.

    Maybe GOP wants to re-invent itself as a conservative party again. That would definitely be a good thing
     
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    Don't fall for the convenient contortion. This is because Mitch wants to be Senate Majority Leader. Once (if) they win back the Senate and the House, they will be bear hugging Trump if that's where the base and donation train is at.
     
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    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/13/mitch-mcconnell-trump-republicans
    I took it to mean Mitchelton was hoping Trump would be criminally prosecuted
     
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    This is why they want to get an idea of what went on in the “war room”. If anything I think Bannondrove a lot of it
     
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    You and Adam Schiff....
     
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    grapeape Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I completely agree with that. There was coordination, but most of those "rioters" were not in the loop, if that makes sense

    We know this was coordinated simply by the fact that there WAS a war-room. Hell, Stevie Wonder can see that far !
     
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    Perhaps because he did not push Pelosi and Bowser to sign the Presidental order to call up to 20k National Guard troops....
     
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    A disjointed attack is hardly an insurrection. We had disjointed attacks all over our cities that summer and many dead. Hardly no investigations and few prosecutions but many dead, and property destroyed. Who are you kidding? The Jan. 6th Partisan investigation committee is ALL about Trump!
     
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    Bannon was the one with the podcast he was stoking the flames before Jan 6 so as far as I am concerned he is guilty
     
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    Love to see some sort of link that proves they had the authority to do that
     
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    My thought is that if T**** actually wanted the National Guard at the Capitol that day, pre-riot, it was only to instigate several shootings of his rioters out on the grounds, which is politically preferable for him to a single shooting inside the building itself.....
     
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    Bowser was the Mayor.

    Pelosi with the Sergeant of Arms leads the Capital Police.
     
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    Don't recall where I read it but it wrote of things, Trump or no, can never be unseen. We have a ruling globalist elite that do not give a whit about law or our nation. Our election system is highly vulnerable and needs to be fixed. While we can question the wisdom of being in the WHO or NATO, we have every right to expect and demand that others pay their fair share. And our corporate owned globalist legacy media is fully in the hands of these kinds of people. Resistance means finding new sources of communications.
    ITMT: the Republican rank and file I would think, have little use for McConnell. I hope we find a way to censure and remove him ASAP, in favor of a populist.
     
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    And their authority to act in this instance????
     
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    The President is not in the Chain of Command of the Capital Police.
     
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    You lost me at “ruling globalist elite” :roll:
     
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    Then you should be able to provide a link to who WAS in chain of command
     
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    I did. FFS I dont want this to turn into a back and forth that ends with your insults and memes for some cheap likes..

    Research it with a source you approve of.
     
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    You did??
     

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