January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

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Lol we all know where all this stuff is heading.

1. The Jan 6 commission will get shut down once Republicans win in the midterms
2. DOJ won't prosecute Trump
3. Trump may get into some legal trouble, but he won't go to jail or have any big consequences
4. Trump wins in 2024 and pardons everyone who did get legal consequences from what they did relating to Jan 6

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That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Good news!

Say hello to Speaker Jim Jordan!

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Most of the House Freedom Caucus was involved in plotting Trump's coup.

Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with former President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020, according to new evidence filed in federal court late Friday.

Deposition excerpts filed by the Jan 6. select committee — part of an effort to force former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to appear for an interview — suggest that some of Trump’s top allies in Congress were frequently present in meetings where a handful of strategies to prevent then-President-elect Joe Biden from taking office were discussed, including efforts to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with figures who would sow doubts about the legitimacy of the election.


Lawmakers who attended meetings, in person or by phone, included Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and numerous members of the House Freedom Caucus, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Meadows who provided key testimony about the conversations and meetings Meadows had in December 2020.


The new evidence underscores the expansive cast of elected Republicans who had ultimately enlisted themselves in Trump’s last-ditch effort to cling to power. Members traded theories about ways to push then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly stop Biden’s election, they parried with the White House Counsel’s Office on the boundaries of the law regarding presidential electors and they met directly with Pence’s staff to encourage him to take direct action on Jan. 6, when Congress convened to count electoral votes.

“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the States,” Hutchinson recalled.

The disclosure came as part of a Friday evening court filing by the select panel asking a federal court to throw out Meadows’ lawsuit against the committee. In the filing, the select committee revealed that Meadows turned over 2,319 text messages during a brief period of cooperation but withheld more than 1,000, citing various privileges.

“[H]e was not acting as anything like a typical White House Chief of Staff advising the President on official matters of government policy,” House General Counsel Doug Letter wrote. “Mr. Meadows was playing a campaign role, attempting to facilitate a strategy that would have reversed the certified results of the 2020 election.”



The committee indicated that Meadows told Jordan in a text message that he supported efforts to convince Pence to send the election back to the states.

“I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen,” Meadows texted Jordan early in the morning on Jan. 6.

Some of the GOP lawmakers were present in December meetings, Hutchinson recalled, when members of the White House Counsel’s Office raised significant legal doubts about a plan for pro-Trump activists to submit “alternate” electors in states won by Joe Biden.

Others attended a Dec. 21 meeting where Rudy Giuliani, then the president’s personal lawyer, and some associates advocated a plan for Pence to unilaterally refuse to count Biden’s electors and instead send the election back to various GOP-controlled state legislatures to replace Biden’s electors with Trump’s.

Did anyone not assume this stuff was going on?

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Did anyone not assume this stuff was going on?

Judging by the responses from people like Fuzzy Bear, Grumps, etc they simply don’t care.

I don't care either. I'm just saying that this surprised literally no one.

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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1519765115184324609
The first hearing is planned for June 9.

Will certainly be entertaining no matter your thoughts on all this.

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LOL all this drama in the hearings and Trump is gonna still become president again in a couple years

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LOL all this drama in the hearings and Trump is gonna still become president again in a couple years

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These hearings are not about stopping Republicans' treason. They're not about justice for Trump and his fellow traitors. These hearings are a record.

They are making certain that, if and when people vote for Donald the Traitor again, no American can legitimately claim they "didn't know" or "don't believe" that January 6th, 2021, and everything leading up to it, was a shameless, naked assault on Americans, our Republic, and our freedoms.

This is about an end to pretense and excuses. No matter what happens in coming years, Donald Trump,and the Republican Party will never escape these hearings.  If the Republican Party is so foolish and wicked as to once again nominate Donald Trump, they will be declaring war on the United States. Should he somehow win, be it by hook and crook or through a very real electoral victory,  he and his government will still lack the legitimacy that all prior Presidential Administrations, even his own, have enjoyed.

Trump will win in 2024 and still be viewed as a legitimate president by more people than Biden is currently lmao.
Not to mention he'll have a way more loyal Senate and House majority that won't block everything he wants to do, and likely an immensely loyal Trumpy cabinet.
Of course the Republican party won't escape these hearings, they'll be embraced as part of the agenda. And they'll win on it.