“I think the chances of a guilty verdict are fairly high, and the chances of real jail time are pretty high.”
— Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, in a GB News interview.
@DemocracyMattersALot
In other news, #fascist #collaborators are trying to rehabilitate their reputations, and the media are helping them do it.
John Bolton Says Classified Documents Case Should End Trump’s Career https://newrepublic.com/post/173575/john-bolton-says-classified-documents-case-end-trumps-career
Compromise struck to preserve Obamacare’s preventive care mandate https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/12/compromise-struck-to-preserve-obamacares-preventive-care-mandate-00101595?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Former Watergate attorney John Dean told CNN that Trump body man Walt Nauta should cooperate with the government against the former president.
Said Dean: “I’d suggest a plea deal. He’s facing 20 years — it’s overwhelming evidence and looks like beyond a reasonable doubt almost off of the material that is raised in the indictment — and I don’t know how he can win this. So, he could strike a good deal and help put it away for the government. I don’t know why he got himself involved this way.”
Politics/January 6
Yes, he should. He should have to work at the board of elections and donate the "volunteer" money to the Capitol.
✔️ Via Lawrence O'Donnell:
Imagine where this country would be today without the anti-democratic institution of the #ElectoralCollege which no democracy born after ours has copied.
#Trump never would’ve seen a classified document were it not for the Electoral College.
#TrumpIndictment
🤦♀️ Via Joe Perticone:
Chuck Grassley tells me he hasn’t read the #TrumpIndictment because he’s “not a legal analyst” (he previously chaired the judiciary committee)
Joni Ernst - concerned if allegations are true
Steve Daines - concerned about Biden
Deb Fischer - wouldn’t answer
All told me they haven’t read it. #GOPfail
Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country.
They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.
60 years ago today, Mississippi @naacp field secretary Medgar Evers, a #WW2 veteran who fought in Normandy, was murdered outside his home in Jackson. His case was reopened in 1989, & his assassin finally convicted 5 years later. #history
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/06/12/on-this-day-in-1963-medgar-evers-was-assassinated/
On Earth 2.0, Republican leaders could urge the base to keep calm and carry on, trusting the rule of law and the criminal justice system.
But, as we have frequently noted, we do not live in this world.
Number of military planning documents Hillary Clinton took, had lying around her residence and showed to visitors, and retained, concealed, and lied about after their return was requested--so that our government didn't know what secrets foreign adversaries had access to?
Zero.
https://bird.makeup/users/LindseyGrahamSC/statuses/1667892656184127488
"Their civil war is imaginary, but there really are men with guns, more now than I’ve seen in 20 years of reporting on the right." do not laugh off right-wing threats of violence over the #TrumpIndictment https://www.rawstory.com/clay-higgins-civil-war/
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