A promising sign from Garland

[berg80]

Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Short confirmed to ABC News.

Short, in an interview Monday night with ABC News' Linsey Davis, said he was subpoenaed by a grand jury and complied with the subpoena, adding he "really can't comment further than that" upon the advice of his legal counsel.

ABC News first reported early Monday that Short had appeared last week before the grand jury.

Short was caught by an ABC News camera departing D.C. District Court on Friday alongside his attorney, Emmet Flood.

Short is the highest-ranking Trump White House official known to have appeared before the grand jury.
Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

There has been some reporting suggesting the DoJ is looking at two aspects of the coup attempt. One is the scheme to use fake slates of electors to justify Pence's theoretical refusal to certify the legitimate EC votes. The other was Trump's corrupt use of the DoJ, specifically Jeff Clark, to pretend the DoJ was fully behind questioning the election results.

It seems likely Short's testimony has more to do with the former than the latter. In any event, as the article points out, the DoJ is working up the food chain by interviewing such a high ranking WH official. The top guy in Penceworld. It's a welcome sign for those of us who fear Merrick's over sensitivity to the appearance of being political will allow certain criminals to escape prosecution.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Need to hurry because November is almost here and the House is going to flip to GOP and in 2024 Trump will run and could win the Electoral College again which would mean he would have another chance to destroy any ability to chase after him.

 

[berg80]

In the last week, local prosecutors in Atlanta barreled ahead with their criminal investigation into the effort by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, targeting fake electors, issuing a subpoena to a member of Congress and winning a court battle forcing Rudolph W. Giuliani to testify to a grand jury.

In Washington, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack unfurled its latest batch of damning disclosures about Mr. Trump at a prime-time hearing, and directly suggested that Mr. Trump needs to be prosecuted before he destroys the country’s democracy.

The Justice Department, where the gears of justice always seem to move the slowest, was shown on Monday to be taking some steps of its own, as word emerged that two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence had testified to a federal grand jury investigating Jan. 6 and what led up to it.

Sharp Contrasts With Other Jan. 6 Inquiries Increase Pressure on Garland (Published 2022)

The continued revelations from the House select committee and the rapid pace of the Georgia investigation have left the Justice Department on the defensive.

www.nytimes.com

Garland had a short press conference last week in which he said the investigation will follow DoJ protocols. Meaning he will not conduct it publicly the way Comey did in keeping the public abreast of every move he made in Hillary's investigation. Garland is getting the PR side right. Whether he's being as aggressive as he should be in looking at Trump's crimes is another matter.

 

[JGalt]

In the last week, local prosecutors in Atlanta barreled ahead with their criminal investigation into the effort by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, targeting fake electors, issuing a subpoena to a member of Congress and winning a court battle forcing Rudolph W. Giuliani to testify to a grand jury.

In Washington, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack unfurled its latest batch of damning disclosures about Mr. Trump at a prime-time hearing, and directly suggested that Mr. Trump needs to be prosecuted before he destroys the country’s democracy.

The Justice Department, where the gears of justice always seem to move the slowest, was shown on Monday to be taking some steps of its own, as word emerged that two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence had testified to a federal grand jury investigating Jan. 6 and what led up to it.

Sharp Contrasts With Other Jan. 6 Inquiries Increase Pressure on Garland (Published 2022)

The continued revelations from the House select committee and the rapid pace of the Georgia investigation have left the Justice Department on the defensive.

www.nytimes.com

Garland had a short press conference last week in which he said the investigation will follow DoJ protocols. Meaning he will not conduct it publicly the way Comey did in keeping the public abreast of every move he made in Hillary's investigation. Garland is getting the PR side right. Whether he's being as aggressive as he should be in looking at Trump's crimes is another matter.

Trump permanently wrecked you, bro.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Trump permanently wrecked you, bro.

As did Obama and Hillary for you and Biden and Harris will be in your wet dreams for years to come!

 

[22lcidw]

As did Obama and Hillary for you and Biden and Harris will be in your wet dreams for years to come!

When the next era of exterminations comes, if the Christians get it this time, the usual suspects behind them will also.

 

[berg80]

Trump permanently wrecked you, bro.

He certainly wrecked the country. Hopefully, only temporarily.

 

[jknowgood]

He certainly wrecked the country. Hopefully, only temporarily.

We know you Don't want a prosperous country, as you support Biden and his record highs of destroying this country.

 

[JGalt]

He certainly wrecked the country. Hopefully, only temporarily.

"Wrecked"? How did Trump "wreck" the country?

Do you mean like this?

Gasoline rising to twice the price it was during 2018, a 9.1% inflation rate which is almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019, a recession, and retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars just over the last year. The price of oil jumping up to $130 per barrel, having to beg Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil while draining our own strategic reserves, sporadic shortages on the store shelves, supply line disruptions, a steadily-increasing trade imbalance with China, an spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs, 4 million more illegals within the last two years, more COVID deaths than in 2020, a dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives, a weakened military, Iran's nuclear program having enough nuclear material to build a bomb, a revitalized Russian oil industry, a major war in Europe that could even go nuclear, and a bumbling, shuffling leader who can't even read a teleprompter without screwing up.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Need to hurry because November is almost here and the House is going to flip to GOP and in 2024 Trump will run and could win the Electoral College again which would mean he would have another chance to destroy any ability to chase after him.

Emanual Goldstein could do that?

Maybe Reich Minister Garland can bring Lon Horiuchi out of retirement to assassinate the object of your insanity?

I mean, IF Trump gets back in office, he could undo all the hard work Xi's man Quid Pro has done. World War 3? Nope - cancelled! Gas prices? Probably drop to $2 a gallon. Inflation? Nope, Trump will fuck that up too and it will tumble to an irrelevant 2%

All the hard work of democrats utterly destroyed....

 

[berg80]

Gasoline rising to twice the price it was during 2018

Let's talk about inflation and the multiple causes for it. For instance, while Biden's stimulus package can fairly be cited as part of the cause, it's far from the only one and not as big as reason as Repubs suggest.

Stimulus Spending a Factor, But Far From Whole Story on Inflation - FactCheck.org

Economists cite several reasons for high inflation in the United States, starting with the unprecedented circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. But TV ads in midterm races across the country blame one culprit: stimulus spending by President Joe Biden's administration.

www.factcheck.org

Not to mention that without it, Moody's estimated the country would have had an economic consequence equivalent to a depression.

Economic View

www.economy.com

Then there is the issue of supply chain constraints which caused too much money to be chasing too few goods. A carryover effect from the pandemic.

Add to all that Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Which exacerbated inflation by causing a spike in energy and food prices.

So.....as badly as simpletons like yourself want to lay inflation at the feet of Biden it's just more complicated than that. Which explains why you have difficulty comprehending the issue.

 

[Flash]

Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Short confirmed to ABC News.

Short, in an interview Monday night with ABC News' Linsey Davis, said he was subpoenaed by a grand jury and complied with the subpoena, adding he "really can't comment further than that" upon the advice of his legal counsel.

ABC News first reported early Monday that Short had appeared last week before the grand jury.

Short was caught by an ABC News camera departing D.C. District Court on Friday alongside his attorney, Emmet Flood.

Short is the highest-ranking Trump White House official known to have appeared before the grand jury.
Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

There has been some reporting suggesting the DoJ is looking at two aspects of the coup attempt. One is the scheme to use fake slates of electors to justify Pence's theoretical refusal to certify the legitimate EC votes. The other was Trump's corrupt use of the DoJ, specifically Jeff Clark, to pretend the DoJ was fully behind questioning the election results.

It seems likely Short's testimony has more to do with the former than the latter. In any event, as the article points out, the DoJ is working up the food chain by interviewing such a high ranking WH official. The top guy in Penceworld. It's a welcome sign for those of us who fear Merrick's over sensitivity to the appearance of being political will allow certain criminals to escape prosecution.

Where are all the prosecution cases for the BLM/ANTIFA insurrectionists that spent six months burning, looting, murdering and attacking Federal buildings?

The Feds announced a few weeks ago they were dropping cases against the BLM shitheads that destroyed Federal property in Portland.

When the American people let the Democrat filth steal the 2020 election and take over the government then all expectations of justice went out the window.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

lmao jan6 hearings

 

[JGalt]

Let's talk about inflation and the multiple causes for it. For instance, while Biden's stimulus package can fairly be cited as part of the cause, it's far from the only one and not as big as reason as Repubs suggest.

Stimulus Spending a Factor, But Far From Whole Story on Inflation - FactCheck.org

Economists cite several reasons for high inflation in the United States, starting with the unprecedented circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. But TV ads in midterm races across the country blame one culprit: stimulus spending by President Joe Biden's administration.

www.factcheck.org

Not to mention that without it, Moody's estimated the country would have had an economic consequence equivalent to a depression.

Economic View

www.economy.com

Then there is the issue of supply chain constraints which caused too much money to be chasing too few goods. A carryover effect from the pandemic.

Add to all that Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Which exacerbated inflation by causing a spike in energy and food prices.

So.....as badly as simpletons like yourself want to lay inflation at the feet of Biden it's just more complicated than that. Which explains why you have difficulty comprehending the issue.

The fact that you can only try to address inflation and nothing else in that list, speaks volumes to me.

You know that your party caused it, but you're desperately trying to refute it.

 

[Independent thinker]

Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Short confirmed to ABC News.

Short, in an interview Monday night with ABC News' Linsey Davis, said he was subpoenaed by a grand jury and complied with the subpoena, adding he "really can't comment further than that" upon the advice of his legal counsel.

ABC News first reported early Monday that Short had appeared last week before the grand jury.

Short was caught by an ABC News camera departing D.C. District Court on Friday alongside his attorney, Emmet Flood.

Short is the highest-ranking Trump White House official known to have appeared before the grand jury.
Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

There has been some reporting suggesting the DoJ is looking at two aspects of the coup attempt. One is the scheme to use fake slates of electors to justify Pence's theoretical refusal to certify the legitimate EC votes. The other was Trump's corrupt use of the DoJ, specifically Jeff Clark, to pretend the DoJ was fully behind questioning the election results.

It seems likely Short's testimony has more to do with the former than the latter. In any event, as the article points out, the DoJ is working up the food chain by interviewing such a high ranking WH official. The top guy in Penceworld. It's a welcome sign for those of us who fear Merrick's over sensitivity to the appearance of being political will allow certain criminals to escape prosecution.

Funny how the left attacked Barr for being in Trump's pocket and not being independent from the White House and yet the left now feel that they should be able to intimidate Garland into being a branch of the Biden administration.

 

[berg80]

"Wrecked"? How did Trump "wreck" the country?

Trump should be charged for crimes against the United States

Charging a former president with crimes would be an extraordinary development in American history and carries the risk of forever reshaping our politics as well as the very future of the nation. It should not be undertaken lightly.

But former President Trump’s multifaceted attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that culminated with him inciting violent mobs to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s victory, was also an extraordinary development in American history — one that nearly destroyed our democracy. The country is already in uncomfortable, uncharted waters navigating the wreckage Trump left in his wake.

What’s needed now is not genteel deference to political norms but an unflinching pursuit of justice. Over the last two months the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has meticulously presented with video clips and firsthand testimony ample evidence that the former president led a dangerous, mendacious plot to block the peaceful transfer of power and hang on to the presidency despite being voted out of office. At a minimum, the Department of Justice should prosecute him for conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the electoral vote count. These crimes carry maximum sentences of five and 20 years in prison, respectively.

 

[JGalt]

Trump should be charged for crimes against the United States

Charging a former president with crimes would be an extraordinary development in American history and carries the risk of forever reshaping our politics as well as the very future of the nation. It should not be undertaken lightly.

But former President Trump’s multifaceted attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that culminated with him inciting violent mobs to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s victory, was also an extraordinary development in American history — one that nearly destroyed our democracy. The country is already in uncomfortable, uncharted waters navigating the wreckage Trump left in his wake.

What’s needed now is not genteel deference to political norms but an unflinching pursuit of justice. Over the last two months the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has meticulously presented with video clips and firsthand testimony ample evidence that the former president led a dangerous, mendacious plot to block the peaceful transfer of power and hang on to the presidency despite being voted out of office. At a minimum, the Department of Justice should prosecute him for conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the electoral vote count. These crimes carry maximum sentences of five and 20 years in prison, respectively.

Bullshit. The best thing that could have happened would have been for Trump to somehow overthrow the election results. It would have been worth it to prevent all this bullshit you Democrats gave the country:

Gasoline rising to twice the price it was during 2018, a 9.1% inflation rate which is almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019, a recession, and retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars just over the last year. The price of oil jumping up to $130 per barrel, having to beg Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil while draining our own strategic reserves, sporadic shortages on the store shelves, supply line disruptions, a steadily-increasing trade imbalance with China, an spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs, 4 million more illegals within the last two years, more COVID deaths than in 2020, a dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives, a weakened military, Iran's nuclear program having enough nuclear material to build a bomb, a revitalized Russian oil industry, a major war in Europe that could even go nuclear, and a bumbling, shuffling leader who can't even read a teleprompter without screwing up.

 

[Meister]

He certainly wrecked the country. Hopefully, only temporarily.

Biden sure did, I hope the next republican president can make things right again.

 

[lennypartiv]

Someday the grandchildren of berg80 will read the history books where they will learn that Trump was the best US president ever.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Trump should be charged for crimes against the United States

Charging a former president with crimes would be an extraordinary development in American history and carries the risk of forever reshaping our politics as well as the very future of the nation. It should not be undertaken lightly.

But former President Trump’s multifaceted attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that culminated with him inciting violent mobs to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s victory, was also an extraordinary development in American history — one that nearly destroyed our democracy. The country is already in uncomfortable, uncharted waters navigating the wreckage Trump left in his wake.

What’s needed now is not genteel deference to political norms but an unflinching pursuit of justice. Over the last two months the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has meticulously presented with video clips and firsthand testimony ample evidence that the former president led a dangerous, mendacious plot to block the peaceful transfer of power and hang on to the presidency despite being voted out of office. At a minimum, the Department of Justice should prosecute him for conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the electoral vote count. These crimes carry maximum sentences of five and 20 years in prison, respectively.

SEIG HEIL

UBER ALLES DEMOCRAT

When you fucking Nazi start leveling criminal charges against opposition political figures - we can't pretend that you're not waging war against the Republic.

No way you Nazi fucks will give up power after you lose the elections.

Lock and load time.