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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCONFIRMED: DOJ has declined to charge Mark MEADOWS and Dan SCAVINO with contempt of Congress...
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JohnSJ
(92,422 posts)agingdem
(7,860 posts)they've given the J6 committee what they asked for which was the point of the contempt charge...this does not exonerate them from the bigger picture, the coup...
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)agingdem
(7,860 posts)the J6 committee contempt of congress referral is "small potatoes" compared to the blizzard of evidence against Meadows...and nothing says "cooperate or else" like Navarro's humiliating arrest..
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)I was wrong...
I was god damn wrong...
I was fucking wrong...
I was wrong...
I was god damn wrong...
I was fucking wrong...
I was wrong...
I was god damn wrong...
I was fucking wrong...
I was wrong...
I was god damn wrong...
I was fucking wrong...
For context I predicted neither trump or any high-up's would go to jail. Or even be indicted. I said this over and over in large part to MAKE THE POINT that we sure as hell BETTER be indicting them, and maybe get people mad.
Fingers crossed!
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)All the way.
I hope we get to say this.
JohnSJ
(92,422 posts)gab13by13
(21,408 posts)he believes that conversations between a president and chief of staff are sacred.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,658 posts)gab13by13
(21,408 posts)it is why Garland is defending the office of the presidency for Donald Trump v E. Jeanne Carroll in her defamation law suit. Garland did not have to defend Trump (the office) in the E. Jeanne Carrol case, but he did.
When DOJ indicts Navarro for seditious conspiracy or obstructing or impeding an official act of Congress get back with me.
The select committee has plenty of evidence of crimes from many people, too bad the select committee is just a legislative committee.
agingdem
(7,860 posts)the contempt of congress charge was a ploy to get them to flip, to get the documents they asked for..you can bet the J6 committee lawyers let Meadows/ Scavino attorneys know they really don't need their testimony because they already have a shit-ton of corroborating evidence, but it would be to their advantage to cooperate...
do not come down on Garland..he did the right thing...
gab13by13
(21,408 posts)if Navarro turns documents over to the select committee?
agingdem
(7,860 posts)J6 committee documents be turned over...
gab13by13
(21,408 posts)agingdem
(7,860 posts)said he would turn them over after the hearings...
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Everyone has limits.
agingdem
(7,860 posts)when the president and the chief of staff conspire to overthrow an election/incite an insurrection
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Where are all the posters who told us Meadows et al were going down?
agingdem
(7,860 posts)to DOJ felony conviction...one does not preclude the other...
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)What they already have from them is sufficient. Subtly, they have rewarded those who cooperated and arrested those who didn't.
agingdem
(7,860 posts)Jordan, Perry, McCarthy, Biggs, Brooks give us what we want or you're fucked..does the name Peter Navarro ring a bell??
gab13by13
(21,408 posts)If the GQP takes back the House, those people are safe.
agingdem
(7,860 posts)Biden is still the President and Garland is still Attorney General..relax..
Fiendish Thingy
(15,658 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)And you can "take that to the bank."
agingdem
(7,860 posts)Garland's going after Trump..Meadows is talking but he will not walk..he was coup central, he shredded documents..that a federal no-no..
Fiendish Thingy
(15,658 posts)TeamProg
(6,251 posts)charged with FAR MORE SERIOUS crimes!
(and for voter fraud for not actually living where he was registered, ooops)
gab13by13
(21,408 posts)gab13by13
(21,408 posts)I can't understand why 10 GQP Senators voted to confirm Merrick Garland.
I can't understand why Mike Lee wanted Donald Trump to appoint Merrick Garland to replace James Comey.
I believe that Garland is an honest dedicated civil servant, but he is a self-avowed institutionalist.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Shocked I tell you.