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'He learned he can get away with it': Jake Tapper draws chilling conclusion from Senate's failure to convict Trump
By Matthew Chapman
Published March 29, 2022
On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," anchor Jake Tapper discussed former President Donald Trump's call for Vladimir Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden with former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara.
"Just to be clear what he is talking about, a Senate report showed that a Russian oligarch and then wife of Moscow's mayor gave $3.5 million a decade ago to a company that Hunter Biden says he had no affiliation with," said Tapper. "But more broadly, what do you make of this? Here is Trump asking an adversary of the United States, fully engaged in attack on an ally now, Ukraine, to give information to damage the president of the United States and his son. This is exactly what he was impeached but not convicted for."
"I think of it what any normal person of reason would think of it," said Bharara. "A person that acts crazy sometimes, trying to deflect attention from himself because there's a lot of attention. 7 hours 37 minutes of logs missing. They're beginning to prove and make the case he was involved at a more significant way than previously known. You have a judge in the last couple days who in parallel proceeding made a point there's evidence that Donald Trump and others conspired to violate criminal law, meaning certain documents have to be released on the crime-fraud exception. This is what he does. The fact he is doing it now with a country who is at war in Ukraine, an ally, indiscriminately bombing and killing innocent people and children is, I think, something of a new level.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2657057902/
Yepper....... and damn near "every" republican senators let him get away with it....
JHB
(37,160 posts)They fell in to the Party Line with Soviet Politburo-grade uniformity.
They ignored the evidence and played games they could turn into clips for FOX News.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Amazing. So, who didn't vote to convict the former guy on the two occasions he was impeached? Was it the Democrats? The Republicans? A mixture of Democrats and Republicans? Some unknowable force in the universe that affects things in the most mysterious ways? If only such knowledge was not beyond the grasp of mere mortals, we'd know, by golly! We would know.
dem4decades
(11,293 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)What will the BREAKING NEWS chyron read the day our democracy collapses thanks to cowardice, apathy and stupidity?
LuvLoogie
(7,003 posts)"After decades of gridlock and legislative failures, congress has relied less on voter participation and more on constitutional maneuvering before sympathetic courts.
" This has led many to ask, 'Do we really need democracy?'
"Well, Jake, do we? Do we really need all this perpetual campaigning and money spent on a fickle electorate?"
Jarqui
(10,125 posts)it is the Pee Pee tapes !
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)people at Trump rallies would be joyfully peeing all over each other while they chant USA! USA! USA!
Traildogbob
(8,739 posts)You most certainly be correct.
Jarqui
(10,125 posts)but that just might be the one.
I think some like the evangelicals would find that as a bridge too far for their continued support.
The GOP are not going to let him run again anyway.
He's just fodder for the media now - to take a bunch of slings and arrows for their real candidate TBA later.
LuvLoogie
(7,003 posts)Barack's gallery would be huge. So much bigger than trump's.
Jarqui
(10,125 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)gab13by13
(21,337 posts)People had better realize that Trump is not stupid, he pretends to be stupid.
To be convicted of a criminal offense, criminal intent must be proven. So when Trump says to find 11,780 votes, people say, oh trump really believes he won Georgia, No The Fuck He Doesn't, he pretends he does.
The 7 1/2 hours of missing White House phone calls shows consciousness of guilt, criminal intent. Trump knew what he was doing on 1/6 was wrong. DOJ needs to create an informational grand jury to be able to get this shit moving.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)sop
(10,177 posts)"You have a judge in the last couple days who in parallel proceeding made a point there's evidence that Donald Trump and others conspired to violate criminal law, meaning certain documents have to be released on the crime-fraud exception."