Originally published at: Incoming President Threatens Prison For Jan. 6 Committee Members - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Don’t Blink While Donald Trump’s vow to jail members of the Congress who investigated his efforts to subvert the 2020 election has been repeated ad nauseam, it remains an unprecedented and extraordinary threat to the…
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Sorry incoming president moron, but members of congress are immune from prosecution for their official acts. Dumbass.
(ETA: Remember how they were trying to claim that Pence was acting as “president of the Senate” on January 6th as a way to reach that immunity? And that Sen. Graham was acting in his “official capacity” when he was making calls to Georgia election officials to “find more votes”?)
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We can mourn our lost illusions and still savor the relief of knowing what’s true.
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If TCF and his cult members come after the members of the January 6th committee, their staffers as well as their supporters and family members they need to stick together. Be brave like the South Korean woman activist who grabbed the barrel of the soldiers gun and scared the wits out him until he scampered away.
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Oh? How many rapes have YOU committed, Mr. Roy?
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He 's just venting. He took it personally that they went after him for J6, and saying they should go to prison is just blowing hot air. He constantly spouts what “should” happen to people and nothing ever comes of it.
Which is why I hope Biden doesn’t hand out any preemptive pardons for Cheney or anyone else. That would be a prime example of Obeying in Advance to a wannabe dictator. If Bondi wants to pursue this on her own, then let her make a fool of herself and fail spectacularly in court.
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Pose for 5 minutes: appears to be a salute.
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Birthright citizenship? Was hoping Trump’s mom was naturalized after Trump’s birth, but alas…
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The Post had a long story yesterday on this threat but never once mentioned that the members of the J6 committee had committed no crimes. Trump himself doesn’t even name any crimes. He just suggests that opposing Donald Trump, or trying to hold him to account, are crimes. And the Washington Post offers no rejoinder. If Trump gins up indictments the Post will treat them “objectively,” that is, it will proceed from the presumption that they are legitimate.
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F@ck the Post.
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An institution of government that the public has abosolutly no control over as Congress has relinquished that power.
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“… like the South Korean woman…” Elders in Asian cultures hold a decidedly different status than seniors in the U.S. do. Grabbing a gun barrel here would likely hold rapidly diminishing returns; and is definitely inadvisable. To your point, though, resist, and resist some more.
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We’re gonna need a bigger handbasket.
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Is this what the Supreme Court meant when they said that the President has immunity from “official acts?”
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tcf’s bluster about putting members of the J6 Committee in jail got a nice response from Adam Kinzinger. I appreciate his chuckle:
I do hope that there are moneyfolk creating a legal defense fund anyway. That’s always part of tcf’s goal: drag things out in court, and lawyers cost money.
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Over the weekend I read that trump wants to end birthright citizenship and he thinks he can do it himself by some sort of executive order. I think he still does not get how the Constitution operates or that adding an amendment takes approval of 2/3rds of House and Senate at minimum
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The cost of Trumps Big Lie. From 2021 When you add the additional costs in the subsequent years from lawsuits from the Dominion and Smartmatic cases as well as the Giuliani defamation case its over $1 billion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/cost-trump-election-fraud/
"President Donald Trump’s onslaught of falsehoods about the November election misled millions of Americans, undermined faith in the electoral system, sparked a deadly riot — and has now left taxpayers with a large, and growing, bill.
The total so far: $519 million.
The costs have mounted daily as government agencies at all levels have been forced to devote public funds to respond to actions taken by Trump and his supporters, according to a Washington Post review of local, state and federal spending records, as well as interviews with government officials. The expenditures include legal fees prompted by dozens of fruitless lawsuits, enhanced security in response to death threats against poll workers, and costly repairs needed after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. That attack triggered the expensive massing of thousands of National Guard troops on the streets of Washington amid fears of additional extremist violence.
Although more than $480 million of the total is attributable to the military’s estimated expenses for the troop deployment through mid-March, the financial impact of the president’s refusal to concede the election is probably much higher than what has been documented thus far, and the true costs may never be known."
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