Federal investigators on Wednesday conducted a search of the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, people briefed on the matter tell CNN.
GOP Crime Blotter (innocent until proven guilty of course!)
(CNN)Federal investigators conducted a search Wednesday of the home of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol riot as top officials refused to go along with his false vote fraud claims, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Clark was at the center of an effort by Trump to get the Justice Department to falsely claim there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states that he lost, in a last-minute bid to help sow doubt about Joe Biden's victory and pave the way for him to remain in power.
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GOP Crime Blotter (innocent until proven guilty of course!)
(CNN)Federal investigators conducted a search Wednesday of the home of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol riot as top officials refused to go along with his false vote fraud claims, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Clark was at the center of an effort by Trump to get the Justice Department to falsely claim there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states that he lost, in a last-minute bid to help sow doubt about Joe Biden's victory and pave the way for him to remain in power.
So do republicans who defended Nixon now regret that decision? Did they regret their decision in the 1980s or 1990s? I don't know the answer. I think they did regret it, yes.
I'm just wondering how many of today's Republicans will deeply regret their support of trump in 10-30 years. How many will recognize they were backing an enemy of democracy and America.
I think that it largely, or perhaps completely, depends on how successful their cowardly, unprincipled behavior succeeds in perpetuating Trumpism? Much easier not to feel guilty if you're living - 10-30 years from now - in a new Trumpmerica, where the R party and roughly half of this country never fixed it's thinking. The more Trumpist we are, the less guilt. The less Trumpy America is, the more guilt (in the subset of those folks actually capable of feeling guilt.....which may not be terribly high).
I'm of the pessimistic opinion that the damage that Trump and his supporters have done will never - in the foreseeable future - be fully/largely reversed. Too many people have gotten too comfortable with being blatantly dishonest and unprincipled and fully tribal. How does that get turned off?
Now, on the optimistic side, there certainly are countries that appear to have done large and quick about-faces (post-WWII Germany and Japan?). But are those examples - or others one might cite - sufficiently similar to our situation to give us much optimism that it can be done....and done in less than many decades? Don't know.
sure is amazing that America is as quiet as it is, given we have entrenched minority rule. What other nation has the minority party rule over the majority so often, with such results?
here the supreme court, with a 6 person majority selected by a permanent minority party, which has won one popular vote in around 34 years. But they set all kinds of policy.
At some point the Dems are going to get sick of being led by the rubes and criminals. Dems will say 'there are many more of us than there are of them' and things will not go well from that point.
Especially since the minority Rs have proven incompetent in leadership and always end up with massive corruption, economic disaster and wars.
GOP Crime Blotter (innocent until proven guilty of course!)
(CNN)Federal investigators conducted a search Wednesday of the home of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol riot as top officials refused to go along with his false vote fraud claims, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Clark was at the center of an effort by Trump to get the Justice Department to falsely claim there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states that he lost, in a last-minute bid to help sow doubt about Joe Biden's victory and pave the way for him to remain in power.
This is a really big deal. The DOJ is getting serious.
Russia hoax serious? Or Hillary deleted email serious? 😂😂😂😂😂
sure is amazing that America is as quiet as it is, given we have entrenched minority rule. What other nation has the minority party rule over the majority so often, with such results?
here the supreme court, with a 6 person majority selected by a permanent minority party, which has won one popular vote in around 34 years. But they set all kinds of policy.
At some point the Dems are going to get sick of being led by the rubes and criminals. Dems will say 'there are many more of us than there are of them' and things will not go well from that point.
Especially since the minority Rs have proven incompetent in leadership and always end up with massive corruption, economic disaster and wars.
I sometimes think it would be really easy to gain a following on the right. They love a buffoon
That's so true. I mean, what's the first thing that would have come to your mind in early 2016 when you heard the name, "Donald Trump"? BUFFOON.
It's weird (and so far, a little bit fortunate) that the GOP did not latch onto a smart, competent dictator wannabe rather than a buffoon dictator wannabe.
Now, on the optimistic side, there certainly are countries that appear to have done large and quick about-faces (post-WWII Germany and Japan?). But are those examples - or others one might cite - sufficiently similar to our situation to give us much optimism that it can be done....and done in less than many decades? Don't know.
I hear you. And I don't disagree. But the post-WWII Germany and Japan models aren't particularly reassuring.
I know I'm stating the obvious, but those examples required those two nations being completely crushed in all-out war by a (relatively) benevolent adversary. I'm hoping for both:
a) US not getting completely crushed militarily
b) no all-out war to start with
Not to mention, I don't see many relatively benevolent military adversaries out there.
A poll shows only 9% of likely voters in New Hampshire "definitely" want Biden to run for president again, and the number of Granite Staters who don't want him to run is increasing.