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Dulcinea

(7,191 posts) Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:19 AM Sep 7

The Cases of January 6th

(AP) Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.

But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.

The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage. Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November.

https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/

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The Cases of January 6th (Original Post) Dulcinea Sep 7 OP

It seems to be takng an awfully long time... Think. Again. Sep 7 #1

Congress conducted an investigation and produced mountains of evidence proving Trump's complicity. lees1975 Sep 8 #2

Think. Again.

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1. It seems to be takng an awfully long time...

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:22 AM

Sep 7

...for the doj to work upward from the bottom, as they said they planned to do.

lees1975

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2. Congress conducted an investigation and produced mountains of evidence proving Trump's complicity.

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Sun Sep 8, 2024, 09:26 PM

Sep 8

These trials, hundreds of them, have only added to that as literally thousands of jurors, among them many Republican Trump supporters, have heard the evidence and issued guilty verdicts time after time.

It is a prime piece of evidence that justice in this country is broken, that the perpetrator and instigator of this insurrection has not yet been brought to trial, even though there is more evidence against him than any single defendant in this whole case.

And that raises a huge question of accountability and competence when it comes to the Attorney General of the United States. With the FBI as his law enforcement arm, and the mountain of evidence in hand, it is legitimate to question why nothing has yet happened, why it has taken four years with still no results and why this case does not appear headed to trial before the election. We, the people, deserve an answer NOW.

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