January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

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Bannon's sentence is 4 months. Welp

$6500 fine. Sentence stayed while he pursues his appeals.

Slap on the wrist. Creates a dangerous precedent if people can ignore a congressional subpoena with little to no consequences.

Yep -when the MAGAT-dominated Republican House start issuing subpoenas, Biden admin officials will now know they could safely ignore them.

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I am not happy about this either:

Jan. 6 committee staffers told preliminary plan for final report would focus largely on Trump, not on law enforcement failures, sources say
The House resolution that created the committee said its mission included examining “the preparedness and response” of Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies.

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We have a sneak-peak on what the final report of the January 6 Commission is going to look like when it comes out on December 21st:

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1602264509711884289

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We have a sneak-peak on what the final report of the January 6 Commission is going to look like when it comes out on December 21st:

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1602264509711884289

Here is the summary of the final report:

Read the Jan. 6 Committee Report Executive Summary

And for those who don't have or want a New York Times subscription, here is the direct link.

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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1606122574479609856

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This seems to be the main points from the Executive Summary. Obviously not going to read the whole thing.

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It is eventually going to be coming out in book form, like the Mueller Report, so you still can if you really want to.  

Edit: Wait, they already have!

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Perhaps it is time to unsticky this thread, now that the January 6 Commission is history, having issued its criminal referrals and the final report?

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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1609885596268232704

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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1626263145797849089

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Georgia Republicans, in their zeal to prove they have Trump's back, have Fani Willis squarely in their cross-hairs:

Republican Lawmakers in Georgia Move to Curb District Attorney Powers Ahead of Potential Trump Indictment

Republican lawmakers in Georgia are pushing a pair of bills that would establish an oversight board to discipline or oust district attorneys that fail to pursue low-level offenses – the latest and most serious conservative effort yet to stunt the authority of local prosecutors or to add aggressive new oversight checks on those they deem too political.

The legislative efforts come as Fani Willis, the district attorney in Atlanta, is pursuing a criminal investigation against former President Donald Trump and his supporters for attempting to undermine and interfere with the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, where he narrowly lost. In building what she’s said could become racketeering or conspiracy cases, she’s subpoenaed some of the Republican Party’s biggest names and drawn the ire of the former president, who most recently called her a “radical left prosecutor.”

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Even his own campaign essentially admitted the 2020 'stolen election' myth was precisely that -a myth:

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1636700420222468096

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Yes -it is about time:

Jan. 6 rioters are raking in thousands in donations. Now the US is coming after their haul

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Yes, although I don't see him spending a day in a prison cell.  After he loses his 2024 election bid, he will be hightailing it out of the United States permanently.  Which is fine with me -so long as he never again participates in our politics, I will be satisfied with his self-exile.  

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From what I read the biggest fear now is that judge Henderson is dragging his feet in regards to the DC Circuit immunity decision in order to delay the trial for after the election.
And that when the case reaches SCOTUS conservative justices will do the same.

So combined with the collusion on the other cases Trump is facing, if he loses in November he will have enough time to plan his getaway out of the country before he is convicted and sentenced in absentia.    

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It's pretty sickening, though unsurprising, that Trump may get away with his delay tactics.

In a way, though, it will make his loss this November that much more devastating to him than it would to a normal political opponent in a functioning democracy.  Everything would be happening to him in quick succession upon his loss with one guilty verdict after another, his property assets being seized, his business being destroyed, his family being torn apart, Trump facing serious time in prison in subsequent sentencing hearings -his goose would be well and truly cooked with his luck finally having run out on him.  Which is why I don't see him sticking around long in this country after the end of this year.  Maybe there will be a subsequent Republican administration elected in 2028 that could offer him a pardon, but it is more likely to be posthumous (in which case, what's the point?) as I don't see Trump surviving long enough to take it.  Not after everything that will happen to him that I pointed out which will likely destroy his will to live.   

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The alternate mediaverse that most Republicans exist in has convinced them (of course) that Trump is being treated unfairly in all his court cases:

Most Republicans in new poll believe Trump’s legal cases are being handled ‘unfairly’

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Trump just won the election.

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So Trump is going to lose this November, then.  Good.  I prefer Biden to win re-election on his record, and not because of a Trump conviction, so that works out perfectly.