C'mon man, you don't honestly believe that. That would be thrown out of court so fast unless you're represented by someone like Rudy G...oh wait I see where this is going.

Not all investigations have to be criminal. The goal of the Jan 6th committee isn't to pass legislation that could have been hammered out in back doors, nor does Congress want Trump's taxes because they think there's some greater legislative purpose. The intent is simply to damage Trump.

It's a dangerous game to play. You can be sure that Republicans will employ these exact same tactics once they seize control of Congress. It's very hard to roll back precedent once set. At this rate, TDS will unravel the republic.

I guess Democrats rely on a sympathetic FBI and intelligence community to insulate them against a potential backlash coming out of a Republican Congress.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 10 2022 03:17pm

That's something that the next Republican administration is sure to try and rectify. The Trump administration gave no thought to who they wanted staffing key positions, and the new right doesn't have a great pool of candidates to draw on in the first place. That's the price of being an outsider. I can't see any future Republican administration not cleaning house and starting things off with a bang. Trump is certain to do it if he wins, he's said as much, but I don't think DeSantis would do it much differently. The bureaucracy has been left since Nixon, the gloves have to come off.

Rule of law is clearly no longer the limiting factor here. The entire raid was premised on untested novel legal theory



Honestly I don't see any clean answer without the 'unraveling the republic' part, short of disbanding the FBI entirely and returning all law enforcement capacity to the states until federal agencies can be reformed from the ground up.
2016 onwards has shown them to have completely gone off the rails, not just on political crusades but abdicating their responsibilities to pursue mundane criminals

The alternative is the Republicans trying to seize control of the corrupt agency and bend it to their will and weaponize it against democrats. And history has shown that Republicans are far more efficient at wielding corrupt levers of government

Yes but Donald Trump kept a cocktail napkin locked up in a safe in his private collection.

And Alex Jones just covered his damages

I'm pretty sure that there needs to be a criminal element for the DOJ to be involved. A judge isn't going to sign off on a warrant unless there is a specific crime.

As for the committee, that's very different than what happened at MAL. There's no doubt that one of the primary purposes of the Jan 6 Committee is to damage Trump. How is that new though? Committee hearings and investigations have been used to push a political point of view for centuries. I fully expect the GOP to investigate the Biden administration because that's literally part of the job. If the administration hasn't done anything wrong, they have nothing to hide. If the administration can't explain a particular policy or action, that's their fault for not being prepared. We shouldn't have sympathy for politicians who are bad at politics.



I disagree. Trump and DeSantis would govern VERY differently which is why DeSantis is preferred by folks like McConnell.

Anyway, I think you'd enjoy these articles (long but great info). If you're worried about legislative whiplash due to the filibuster going away, you're going to see WAY more of that in the future:
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/23/donald-trump-news-schedule-f-executive-order



Wild speculation. You could be right but you have no justification to think this and we need to wait for more information. Trump could release the warrant to put this to rest but it would be political suicide. Trump needs to come across as a victim as much as possible.

I would’ve put my money on ashy males