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I Hope He’s Right

From The Palmer Report:

Last month, in a leak that could only have come from the January 6th Committee itself, the New York Times reported that the committee was looking at referring Donald Trump to the DOJ for criminal prosecution on crimes including obstruction of Congress and wire fraud. Now, in a new leak that could also have only come from the committee itself, the Guardian is reporting that the committee is looking at also referring Trump for a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the election.

With these leaks, the committee is giving away a lot about what it’s currently sitting on, and how it intends to play this. First, if you’re a congressional committee, you don’t leak you’re even “considering” a criminal referral against the former President of the United States unless you already have more than enough evidence to make the criminal referral legitimate in the eyes of the law and in the court of public opinion.

Second, by leaking that different kinds of charges are being considered, the committee is laying the groundwork for demonstrating that Trump committed a broad swath of crimes in relation to January 6th. It’s not simply a question of whether Trump, recklessly or intentionally, incited the Capitol attack. It’s that the moment in question was part of an ongoing crime spree.

But the most intriguing part of these leaks may be the fact that the January 6th Committee obviously knows the Department of Justice is paying attention. While the DOJ has been very quiet about what if any criminal avenues it’s pursuing against Donald Trump, the committee is now giving the DOJ a very blatant heads up about the kinds of criminal referrals it could end up receiving against Trump.

This is notable because even if the DOJ has been pursuing January 6th and/or Donald Trump from very different directions, it’ll have to take immediate notice if Congress hands it a comprehensive criminal case against Trump from these specific directions. Now that the DOJ is aware that it could soon be receiving a criminal referral against Trump on the kinds of charges that the committee is leaking, the DOJ has time to steer its own efforts in those general directions. This doesn’t guarantee the DOJ will bring charges against Trump. But if the committee hands over a complete criminal case that’s likely to win at trial, the DOJ would have a hard time – from a legal standpoint and a perception standpoint – not bringing the charges.

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Welcome to the Grievance Journal

I bought this for one purpose: to liven things up around here at Voenix Rising. I’m going to start posing questions that were provided as food-for-thought in this book. Participation is not required, but it might be fun for y’all to vent anonymously…

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Preach, Sister!

From Lady Bunny on Instagram:

Former Dem presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Twitter making the simple point that politicians should do things people like. Democrats campaigned on all she mentioned, yet after one year of controlling the White House, the House and the Senate, they’ve achieved none of them. It shouldn’t be necessary to point out that politicians should do what voters want to do because they (allegedly) represent us, but it is. For too many Democrats, simply bashing Trump and the GOP is considered better politics than doing what you campaigned on. Many of you will excuse Democrats’ inaction by claiming that the issue blocking Dems’ agenda is Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. It’s not. These conservative Dems have more in common with Biden and Pelosi/Schumer than they do Bernie/AOC. Biden and Pelosi unlinked the infrastructure bill with Build Back Better social spending bill, ensuring it’s failure. And Biden was pushed by those saying he could work well with the GOP. Yet he can’t even work with Republican lites like Manchin and Sinema in his own party.

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