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babylonsister

(171,076 posts)
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:58 AM Jan 2022

1/6 Committee Is Already Getting Documents That Trump Tried To Hide

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/01/20/1-6-committee-is-already-getting-documents-that-trump-tried-to-hide.html

Posted on Thu, Jan 20th, 2022 by Jason Easley
1/6 Committee Is Already Getting Documents That Trump Tried To Hide


Thanks to the Supreme Court rejecting his executive privilege claim, the 1/6 Committee is already getting documents that Trump tried to hide.

After the SCOTUS ruling, the Committee tweeted:

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Trump is trying to run Liz Cheney out of the Republican Party, and she is going to have access to over 700 pages of possibly incriminating documents that Trump tried to hide.

Donald Trump lost at the Supreme Court for the same reason that he lost the case in the lower courts. He could not provide any reason why the documents should be hidden from public view. It turns out that wanting to hide information from investigators because it is bad for you is not a valid legal argument.

The Committee probably had a lot of the information in those documents from witness testimony, but the docs represent physical proof of what Trump was doing and what was happening at the White House before, during, and after the Capitol attack.

The 1/6 investigation has taken a huge leap forward, and Trump’s idea of executive privilege for life was crushed by the Supreme Court.
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1/6 Committee Is Already Getting Documents That Trump Tried To Hide (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2022 OP
What's nice is there is no tweet storm about the unselect this and unfair that Fullduplexxx Jan 2022 #1
It is such a solace that we don't have to see his ravings anymore. lark Jan 2022 #2
Not yet, but I don't expect the silence to last. nt babylonsister Jan 2022 #3
How Sweet It Is! True Blue American Jan 2022 #4
What a way to begin Biden's Year #2 in office FakeNoose Jan 2022 #5

Fullduplexxx

(7,866 posts)
1. What's nice is there is no tweet storm about the unselect this and unfair that
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 10:01 AM
Jan 2022

And all the crying about fix rigged blah blah blah

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