January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[OSR stands with Israel]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1688995093267480576

* Stocks up on popcorn *

Trump could have been relaxing at Mar-A-Lago if he just conceded in 2020 and then grifted of the fact he was a former president for the rest of his life

[Progressive Pessimist]

More evidence of the obvious that Trump hates America.

Imagine if a Democrat said what he did right there.

[GeorgiaModerate]

More evidence of the obvious that Trump hates America.

Imagine if a Democrat said what he did right there.

Or most Republicans.  It would be a campaign-ending gaffe for any other candidate, but for Trump it's just a day ending in "y".

[Middle-aged Europe]

I long for the day we no longer have to discuss Donald Trump every day.

Will that day ever come?

When he’s in jail or dead

Donald Trump's death is inevitable.

[Yoda]

More evidence of the obvious that Trump hates America.

Imagine if a Democrat said what he did right there.

It reads like something republicans would claim that John Kerry had said in '04, but of course it would turn out he never had. Which just goes to show for the 10,000,000th time, that with republicans, it's ALWAYS projection.

[emailking]

Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win
The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation did not uncover the memo, whose existence first came to light in last week’s indictment.

A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a criminal conspiracy.

The existence of the Dec. 6, 2020, memo came to light in last week’s indictment of Mr. Trump, though its details remained unclear. But a copy obtained by The New York Times shows for the first time that the lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, acknowledged from the start that he was proposing “a bold, controversial strategy” that the Supreme Court “likely” would reject in the end.

But even if the plan did not ultimately pass legal muster at the highest level, Mr. Chesebro argued that it would achieve two goals. It would focus attention on claims of voter fraud and “buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/trump-indictment-fake-electors-memo.html

[Badger]

I'm not sure "I'd rather be in France than the country I'm running to be President of" is the best campaign message.

His cultists, including the disgraceful unpatriotic losers on this forum, will not care in the slightest.

[DaleCooper]

Oh my god, he looks like crap in that video.

[emailking]

‘I will talk’: Trump holds post-indictment rally in New Hampshire

Former President Donald Trump delivered remarks at a campaign event in Windham, N.H., on Tuesday for the first time since being indicted.

Trump told the crowd that President Joe Biden wants to take away his First Amendment rights so that he can’t speak about the indictment.

“I will talk about it. I will,” Trump said. “They’re not taking away my First Amendment rights.” Trump also said he expects to have “four (indictments) by some time next week.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-will-talk-trump-holds-post-indictment-rally-in-new-hampshire/ar-AA1eYUy2

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

‘I will talk’: Trump holds post-indictment rally in New Hampshire

Former President Donald Trump delivered remarks at a campaign event in Windham, N.H., on Tuesday for the first time since being indicted.

Trump told the crowd that President Joe Biden wants to take away his First Amendment rights so that he can’t speak about the indictment.

“I will talk about it. I will,” Trump said. “They’re not taking away my First Amendment rights.” Trump also said he expects to have “four (indictments) by some time next week.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-will-talk-trump-holds-post-indictment-rally-in-new-hampshire/ar-AA1eYUy2

You left out the truest, most-fitting, most un-self-aware, and possibly the funniest moment in the history of the Trump cult and its orange prophet:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1688993621163548673


(For once I don't even feel bad linking the dead birdsite, since it's such an appropriate medium in this case.)

[Sir Mohamed]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1688995093267480576

* Stocks up on popcorn *

Trump could have been relaxing at Mar-A-Lago if he just conceded in 2020 and then grifted of the fact he was a former president for the rest of his life

Yup, he even would have gotten away with everything else then. But his ego narcissistic personality disorder just couldn't bring himself to admit defeat.

[Inmate Trump]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1688995093267480576

* Stocks up on popcorn *

Trump could have been relaxing at Mar-A-Lago if he just conceded in 2020 and then grifted of the fact he was a former president for the rest of his life

Yup, he even would have gotten away with everything else then. But his ego narcissistic personality disorder just couldn't bring himself to admit defeat.

If not for all his antics Republicans probably would’ve won the GA Senate runoffs in 2020/2021 and would’ve had a meaningful victory in the 2022 midterms.

But the cult remains with him even as he costs them. Pure idiocy.

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1689313590149263360?s=20

[emailking]

Here are some more details. They apparently litigated this in secret for months whether Trump would be told about the search warrant. He was finally told it occurred but not who sought it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/special-counsel-trump-twitter-search-warrant/index.html

[Redban]

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1689349373539315713

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1689349373539315713

Tough but fair

[2016]

Put TRUMP behind bars, NOW!!!!

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1689349373539315713

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1688994544858083328

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1689349373539315713

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1688994544858083328

Hey using Trump’s own words against his supporters fake partisan talking points isn’t fair

[ProudModerate2]

... Also, the bit about how he'd rather be in France seems like it wil make a great campaign commercial.

Do you think trump would settle being sent to the island of Elba or the island of Saint Helena.
I'm sure some special arrangement could be made.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/jamiegangel/status/1689360873750478848

[Roll Roons]

It's worth reminding ourselves that the Ivy League is just an athletic conference:
https://twitter.com/pawprinceton/status/1686841276107227137

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1689696118441967616

[emailking]

Nice! Since Cannon rejected that time slot for MAL it's left nicely open for this.

If they did that schedule we might have a verdict before Super Tuesday. Although my guess if the judge will give it a few more months given quantity of discovery.

[2016]

Nice! Since Cannon rejected that time slot for MAL it's left nicely open for this.

If they did that schedule we might have a verdict before Super Tuesday. Although my guess if the judge will give it a few more months given quantity of discovery.

TRUMP is going to get convicted before the General Election at least in one case, maybe more. That's the big thing here.

Good Luck to the Republican Party to cope with this!