It took 3 grand juries to even be able to bring the case, it was always going to end in acquittal. Sure, it’s technically assault, but nobody was going to convict for that.

I was kind of hoping the defence would produce a receipt that confirmed it was a BLT without onions, hence proving the agent committed perjury.

I feel like that stuff might be horrifying to most, it’s exactly what his base wanted. I guess it might peel off the ones that just believed his economic ‘message’.

I mean, when he was on the ballot last time he did win. He has a way of drawing out his voters that luckily doesn’t easily transfer to other Republicans.

Congress has cameras. If you’re lying to Congress about factual things, your memory of the event shouldn’t matter.

Democrats should definitely take something from that playbook, but there’s been many cases of someone lying in front of Congress and not facing consequences. It happened in the leadup of both Iraq wars, and I don’t think people should just be allowed to get away with stuff like that just because the clock ran out.

Obviously part of the problem is that Democrats don’t seem to be interested in prosecuting stuff like that in the name of bipartisanship, but that’s how they got where they got now.

The problem is that the DOJ isn’t as independent as people would like it to be, so you basically need a change in administration to hold someone to account, which could take longer than 5 years.

I know these particular charges are probably bullshit, but I don’t think there should be a statute of limitations for lying to Congress.

Guess it was more important to make sure children kept getting massacred than winning the Muslim vote in Michigan.

You probably don’t want to look up what she said when a crazy right wing guy shot a bunch of politicians in Minnesota.

Is this all stuff everyone’s already seen like the last times they ‘released’ them, or is there anything new here?

He’s already distanced himself from globalise the Intifada, they just keep moving the goalposts on him .

Pretty much every President since Roosevelt can be argued to have been a war criminal, so I don’t see why countries would suddenly start holding the US accountable.

He’s going to do the bear hug strategy, worked out great when Biden did it with Bibi.

Just keep giving in until everyone’s starving.

More 👏 LGBTQ+ 👏 ICE 👏 agents.

If you were to go off past experience.

Yeah, the thing about international law is that there’s no real enforcement mechanism. If you break it, either your own country has to arrest you, or you’d have to be dumb enough to travel to a country that will do that. It’s why Putin didn’t travel to South Africa for a summit, and why Netanyahu is happily travelling all over the US and Europe while continuing a genocide.

For one, ask for the release of everything instead of just the stuff that mentions Trump. It would be great if there was consequences for all of them.

I didn’t see any of that energy for stopping Trump from the democrats. They’d rather have fascism over free buses.

Same thing for Mehdi Hassan. It’s obvious even if they’ll never outright say it.

Even then, they won’t stop, they’ll play the victim after shooting the guy. If you shoot back, even if you didn’t know they were police or federal agents you’ll still get prosecuted.