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  “The central cause of January 6 was one man, former president Donald Trump, who many others followed,” the committee wrote in a detailed summary of its findings a few days before the release of its final 800-plus-page report on Thursday.
context: Donnie Jon is obviously guilty of a dozen infractions. It's insane he wasn't convicted of fraud decades agom >
  
  back then he was more low-key. Kept his mouth shut more often than not. The moment he decided to run for office (the second time) and became president, is when all that went out the window. (normal) People quickly started noticing he wasn't the genius he always blabbed about nor the savvy businessman. Just a rich fucking imbecile with a fragile ego. Same Thing can be said for Kanye, Elon and Putin. >
  
  They are much better off staying low key, but their narcissism and egos wouldn’t allow it. >
  
  I am praying they announce the indictment on January 6th 2023 >
  
  January's going to be juicy.  DOJ will have to act or respond.  Either is going to be interesting. >
  
  
  DOJ will have to act or respond.
  
  My money is on them acting like the feckless pussies they have been for the past two years.
  Indicting the common folk by the hundreds is real brave, working class people who are stupid and misled by a conman.
  But the people who led the insurrection and supporters to commit these crimes? All comfortably at home, many still in office, the ring leader running for fucking president again. >
  
  If they intended to do nothing they would be doing nothing. They certainly wouldn't send the FBI to raid the home of a former president and appoint a war crimes prosecutor as special counsel. >
  
  That was for a different crime of taking classified documents, and Garland that limp noodle practically begged him for over a year to return the documents without taking any kind of action, and still refused to raid his other properties even though everyone was screaming at him that Trump had more documents, which also turned out to be true when Trump submitted them only a month or so ago >
  
  I can't prove it, because I'd need inter-departmental messages to, but I'm willing to bet the National Archives essentially forced Garland's hand with the classified document situation. >
  
  Fully agree, what a huge disappointment Garland is, completely the wrong man for the moment >
  
  Until he’s in handcuffs, all these headlines mean little to me at this point. >
  
  They never put rich guys in handcuffs... their attorneys just arrange a "gentleman's" arrest by showing up voluntarily. >
  
  Trump will never, ever, ever show up voluntarily. >
  
  And I’ll love to watch him in cuffs doing the perp walk. I live for that moment. >
  
  Either he will be dead before that moment, or you will be dead before that moment, because that moment is never going to come at this pace. >
  
  Probably. But a feller can dream…. >
  
  I vote for Jennifer Coolidge to play Melania in the Tell All movie of Trump’s presidency. >
  
  Stifler's mom? Seconded! >
  
  “The central cause of January 6 was one man, former president Donald Trump, who many others followed,” the committee wrote in a detailed summary of its findings a few days before the release of its final 800-plus-page report on Thursday. >
  
  Laymen say it too. >
  
  Well then, arrest him. >
  
  Of all the illegal and immoral things he’s done, what angers me the most is that he is getting away with it. >
  
  He will be indicted... He won't be allowed to get away with what he did... Even if he never goes to prison. He will banished and disgraced for all time..  Everyone around him knows it. The likes of Hannity and others went to these grand juries and told the truth because lying to the DOJ will send your ass to prison and they aren't going to risk that. >
  
  I'll believe it when I see it. He was already known to be criminally unqualified for office when he started his campaign in 2016, it's now 6 years and multiple publicly committed felonies later and he has faced no consequences whatsoever.
  Should all this happen to him? Yes, obviously. Will it? I'm not holding my breath. >
  
  Trump was criminally unqualified then, and he is now - and he's running for president yet again. >
  
  Say the line!!! >
  
  Still haven't heard anyone say how they are going to get 12 Americans to agree to convict him >
  
  Prosecutors get to hand-select the jury, and can deny anyone for anything they say, do, or how they look, as long it's not explicitly discriminatory against a protected class. That's how we get all-white juries against black defendants. >
  
  They only get to remove a certain amount of people. The percentage of black people is much lower than the percentage of MAGA voters. >
  
  If this is in DC i don’t know, DC hates him >
  
  Even in DC he got almost 20,000 votes.  And that reason would likely be used to move the trial since they will say it is impossible to get a fair trial there. >
  
  God I hate these "experts say" articles. If something actually happens, post it. If it's just people talking, who cares. >
  
  More than a couple people here are making the point that it’s better to not charge him than it is to charge him and not win.   I think that’s BS.   If every part of our justice system failed to act because they assumed some problematic outcome further on down the line… well, you’d have what we have now.   A system where rich fucks get to break the law with impunity while you and I would be getting speed-prosecuted for the same crimes. 
  You have to at least try to do the right thing even if you think it’s an uphill battle. >
  
  
  January 6 panel's body of work boosts DoJ case against Trump
  
  The report is very well written with all sorts of interesting nuggets that couldn’t make it into the live hearings, but it’s also a huge tease because congressional hearings don’t have the same restrictions as a court.  So DoJ will have to do far more work to get some of that same evidence admitted in a trial.  I do think they’re up to the task though, partly because they also have a lot more teeth than a congressional hearing. >
  
  Let’s see how fast Melania will file for divorce >
  
  He will be dead of old age before there are any real consequences >
  
  Great headline, but zero is being done. I think EVERYONE is saying "put him in handcuffs or shut the hell up." Dems are too cowardly to do shit and republicans still hope he doesn't break away for a 3rd party run so they don't wanna piss him off but still think they can maybe control him. It's all funny to watch how cowardly BOTH sides are to this con. 
  It's clear on many levels laws were broke by Trump. >
  
  What case? They aren’t doing shit but going after small fish. >
  
  I’m sure it will make a great addition to the historical record, but I can’t make myself feel at all optimistic about Trump actually answering for anything. >
  
  The DOJ had 2 years - and they've done nothing to prosecute any of the politicians and high-level government employees yet. The DOJ has 24/7 access to the best lawyers in the country, the best investigators, and, can hire an unlimited number of them - yet they haven't. 
  Bringing on Jack Smith is a good move (and I'm sure he has quite a large staff helping him), but it seemed to me that Garland did this not because of the DOJ rule (which says he shouldn't investigate the president that appointed him - meaning there was no problem with him investigating Trump) but rather because he was handing off the case.
  IMHO, I just don't think we're going to see any charges against Trump or Congressmen, etc; I think that the DOJ wants to get all the TS/SCI documents back, and after they receive them, this case will close the case. 
  Even if they do indict Trump et al, it's been 2 years since the coup, so this won't have the impact that it would have had it been shortly after 1/6. I mean, Trump is actively calling for people to attack the government and the FBI - clearly he feels very confident. Remember how just after 1/6 the GOP Congressmen involved in the coup for the most part went silent? They were terrified. Garland and the DOJ dropped the ball bigtime. >
  
  With something so high profile, unprecedented and politically charged, if they take their time and do it solidly, leaving no stone unturned, it takes a while. Nothing would be worse than having a mistrial, some disqualifying investigatory or legal hitch, or other such snafu to tank the effort. That's all that is needed to create an even worse conspiracy theory or double down issue for the MAGA folks. >
  
  What is better for Trump:  Being charged and then winning the case or never being charged?  Doesn't a non-conviction make him look better because it makes it look like he was right? >
  
  Dear lawd I would flippin hope so! >
  
  Why Treason/Criminal walking free?  If we are a nation of laws!?!? >
  
  Then do it.  They’ve had all the evidence for months if not longer.  They don’t have to wait till they have all the cases locked up, indict him today for one crime today and then another next week and repeat…
  Just do it. >
  
  Donnie Jon is obviously guilty of a dozen infractions. It's insane he wasn't convicted of fraud decades agom >
  
  back then he was more low-key. Kept his mouth shut more often than not. The moment he decided to run for office (the second time) and became president, is when all that went out the window. (normal) People quickly started noticing he wasn't the genius he always blabbed about nor the savvy businessman. Just a rich fucking imbecile with a fragile ego. Same Thing can be said for Kanye, Elon and Putin. >
  
  They are much better off staying low key, but their narcissism and egos wouldn’t allow it. >
  
  I am praying they announce the indictment on January 6th 2023 >
  
  January's going to be juicy.  DOJ will have to act or respond.  Either is going to be interesting. >
  
  
  DOJ will have to act or respond.
  
  My money is on them acting like the feckless pussies they have been for the past two years.
  Indicting the common folk by the hundreds is real brave, working class people who are stupid and misled by a conman.
  But the people who led the insurrection and supporters to commit these crimes? All comfortably at home, many still in office, the ring leader running for fucking president again. >
  
  If they intended to do nothing they would be doing nothing. They certainly wouldn't send the FBI to raid the home of a former president and appoint a war crimes prosecutor as special counsel. >
  
  That was for a different crime of taking classified documents, and Garland that limp noodle practically begged him for over a year to return the documents without taking any kind of action, and still refused to raid his other properties even though everyone was screaming at him that Trump had more documents, which also turned out to be true when Trump submitted them only a month or so ago >
  
  I can't prove it, because I'd need inter-departmental messages to, but I'm willing to bet the National Archives essentially forced Garland's hand with the classified document situation. >
  
  Fully agree, what a huge disappointment Garland is, completely the wrong man for the moment >
  
  Until he’s in handcuffs, all these headlines mean little to me at this point. >
  
  They never put rich guys in handcuffs... their attorneys just arrange a "gentleman's" arrest by showing up voluntarily. >
  
  Trump will never, ever, ever show up voluntarily. >
  
  And I’ll love to watch him in cuffs doing the perp walk. I live for that moment. >
  
  Either he will be dead before that moment, or you will be dead before that moment, because that moment is never going to come at this pace. >
  
  Probably. But a feller can dream…. >
  
  I vote for Jennifer Coolidge to play Melania in the Tell All movie of Trump’s presidency. >
  
  Stifler's mom? Seconded!