A report card on the Biden administration

Our country under Joe Biden.

https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1536794373656137730

 

Although limited by the paucity of tools that it has, the Biden administration is doing what it can to control inflation.

CNN reports,"US stocks jumped on Wednesday afternoon after the Federal Reserve announced it will increase interest rates by an aggressive three-quarters of a percent.

"Wednesday’s rate hike – the largest in 28 years – signaled to investors that the Fed is committed to lowering inflation rates. Fed chair Jerome Powell indicated that a similar hike could come in July if the economic data doesn’t improve."

CNN also reported, "President Joe Biden is still debating whether to lift some tariffs on China put in place by his predecessor as he mines his authorities for ways to bring down skyrocketing prices that have caused his approval ratings to plummet.

"Biden is on track to announce a decision on tariffs within a few weeks, according to an official familiar with the matter, though he hasn’t yet made a final determination.

"Inflation has proved a frustrating challenge for the President, who has instructed his team to continue searching for avenues to reduce financial burdens on Americans."

In keeping with this emphasis, CNN also reported, "In his latest attempt to stem raging inflation affecting almost every American, President Joe Biden has a new target – oil giants that are banking high profits even as gasoline prices at the pump hit record levels.

"Biden rebuked the wealthy sector after he announced a trip to Saudi Arabia and is expected to ask it to pump more oil to alleviate some of the pressure on Americans as inflation pummels his own approval ratings and the prospects of Democrats in midterm elections. His moves coincide with an expected aggressive interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, which could help cool the overheating economy but is part of a strategy that also risks tipping it into a recession."

Our President has called on U.S. oil refiners to produce more gasoline and diesel, saying their profits have tripled during a time of war between Russia and Ukraine as Americans struggle with record-high prices at the pump.

President Biden is doing what he can with the limited resources he has. If Biden critics have any suggestions as to what more he can do, no doubt everyone would be interested in hearing them.

 

Trump continues his silence on the issues being brought forward by the committee. He appears to be acknowledging his guilt as are his colleagues in Congress who also remain silent.

ABC reports, "Former President Donald Trump on Monday responded in a lengthy statement to the House's ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings, assailing the panel as illegitimate and their presentation as one-sided -- but rather than refute their evidence, he reiterated the same baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election that are at the center of the proceedings and the group's case that he had attempted a "coup."

"Trump's 12-page statement, sent to reporters on Monday night, comes after the second public hearing held by the House select committee investigating last year's deadly Capitol attack. His statement, marked by characteristic exclamations and insults, called the hearings "a smoke and mirrors show" that failed to include "all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story."

"The statement, however, did not directly respond to the specifics laid out by the committee to the public thus far -- including testimony earlier Monday from Trump's inner circle that he knew he had lost the last presidential race and had no legitimate reason to claim widespread fraud, instead choosing to listen to Rudy Giuliani to falsely claim victory over Joe Biden."

Trump is clueless. He has no idea what is happening. Let's examine what he said.

"Their presentation is one-sided." "Failed to include "all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story."

Trump seems unaware that he refused to appear before the committee to explain his innocence. He is unaware that the Republican leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, refused to appoint Republicans to the committee. Trump's close associates who could possibly defend him refused to appear before the committee.

"Their presentation is one-sided." "Failed to include "all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story." Rural Trump Republicans with their limited awareness will believe him. Like Trump, they are clueless.

 

The [Republican] Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016

The Republican Party has captured the minds of those who live in the rural counties of America. Those voters are mostly farmers and rural shopkeepers. They lack education and they are not well-informed. Most of what they know about politics is by word of mouth.

For reasons they are unaware of and cannot explain, Donald Trump is their savior, thus explaining why they believe everything Trump says. Consequently, most of them have voted for Trump endorsed candidates in the primaries.

That is understandable. They don't know what is going on. All they know is, they like Trump for some reason.

What is disturbing is that many of these Republican candidates are winning. Most were favorites anyway. Here is the disturbing part. These candidates support the view that Trump won the election and the coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021. If they didn't believe that, they would not have gotten Trump's endorsement.

In other words, Republicans running for office -- governor, secretary of state, state legislatures, U.S. Congress, etc. -- support the attempted overthrow of the elected government on Jan. 6, 2021.

There is no other way to read that.

Republicans on this forum will remain silent on these issues. After all, what can they say? Not even Trump is declaring his innocence. Neither are any members of the Republican Party.

 

This guy has absorbed WAY too much CNN.

 

Trump is not being quiet and calling out the sham investigation for what they are..

https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e7/e74...51/statement-by-president-donald-j.-trump.pdf

"The Sham Investigation

The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold real hearings with equal representation. They don’t, so they use the illegally-constituted committee to put on a smoke and mirrors show for the American people, in a pitiful last-ditch effort to deceive the American public…again. Our Constitution protects the right to confront accusers, honors the right to fair trials, and holds the right to legal representation as paramount in our justice system. Equal representation and the opportunity to offer rebuttal evidence is fundamental in our legal process. The Committee has obliterated those rights and is making a mockery of justice. They have refused to allow their political opponents to participate in this process, and have excluded all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story. MAGA witnesses were interrogated behind closed doors and ordered to not record their own testimony. Members of my staff, my friends, supporters, volunteers, donors, were subjected to hours upon hours of inquisition – oftentimes having nothing to do with January 6th. Their very lives were turned upside down for obvious reasons. They were told it was an ongoing investigation and any reproduction of the interrogation would be viewed as an attempt to interfere in the investigation. They were gagged, threatened, and in some cases ruined. Yet, the Unselect Pseudo-Committee has coordinated with their media puppets to broadcast their witnesses on national television without any opposition, cross-examination, or rebuttal evidence. The American public has a right to know the truth and see every witness, but these corrupt officials are trying to force-feed the public with their politically opportune sideshow. What are the members of this treasonous “Committee” afraid of? Why can’t they let the countervailing opinion be heard? Why are they hiding evidence from the public and only showing information that favors the Democrats’ tall tale? They’re afraid of losing the narrative, because their political opponents could easily show how the committee is lying to the nation and has stripped Americans of their rightful power. Democrats created the narrative of January 6th to detract from the much larger and more important truth that the 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen. Politicians from both parties, but mostly the Democrats, worked in conjunction with corporate elitists to strip Americans of our right to elect our own leaders. To do so, corrupt officials violated their own state laws. The separation of powers is designed to make sure that no officials become dictators by granting the authority to make laws with the legislature and execute laws with the executive branch. No one office should have complete power. It must be separated among different offices. In 2020, separation of powers went out the window. The state executive branch, in both red and blue states, decided to completely ignore state laws, make up their own rules, and execute them. In other words, they became the little dictators our Constitution was designed to prevent. They illegally inflated voter rolls, illegally allowed harvested and stuffed ballots, abused the use of mail-in ballots, physically removed Republicans from counting facilities, abused the elderly in nursing homes, bribed election officials with donations, stopped counting on Election Night, gave Democrats three extra days to harvest ballots, and demanded that the American people believe it was legitimate. This entire charade of the Unselect Committee is a brazen attempt to detract the public’s attention from the truth. The truth is that Americans showed up in Washington, D.C. in massive numbers (but seldom revealed by the press), on January 6th, 2021, to hold their elected officials accountable for the obvious signs of criminal activity throughout the Election. Those who are supposed to be public servants are using the power of government against the people who entrusted them with the power. We’ve been betrayed. Since the Unselect Committee refuses to allow their political opponents to participate in the hearings, the public likely won’t hear from the many patriots who contradict the lies being broadcast – at least not in these hearings. This is all a ridiculous and treasonous attempt to cover up the fact that Democrats rigged the Election and are siphoning Americans’ freedoms and power for their own benefit. 3 Without the ability to have political, legal, or witness representation from conservatives in this Kangaroo Court, it’s up to American patriots to arm themselves with the information. This hearing isn’t about January 6th, it’s about November 3rd, and here’s what happened.

 

So Biden is going to stop gas and oil in the US.. for the good of the climate
Now he is going to invoke emergency power to make oil company's produce more.. for the good of the climate.
March 15, 2020 Democratic Debate
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/march-democratic-debate-transcript-joe-biden-bernie-sanders



"My administration is prepared to use all reasonable and appropriate federal government tools and emergency authorities to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term, and to ensure that every region of this country is appropriately supplied," Biden said

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-chastises-oil-industry-over-131844512.html

 

So Biden demands oil companies increase production while simultaneously saying Biden wants to shut them down over the next 5-10 years and all through emergency authorities... "they have big pockets"

https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1537214216989552641

 

The Republican Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016

The Republican Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016

J. Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge, said Pence heeding Trump’s directive would have “plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis.”

The Post reports, "John Eastman, a conservative lawyer advising President Donald Trump, sought a presidential pardon after pushing a plan to overturn the 2020 election that he knew to be illegal, evidence and testimony showed during a hearing Thursday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Eastman had aggressively pushed a plan for Vice President Mike Pence to use his authority to help overturn the results, but acknowledged to Pence attorney Greg Jacob that the plot violated the law and would lose at the Supreme Court “nine to nothing,” Jacob testified.

"Giuliani and Eastman, two of Trump’s top advisers, knew their plot was probably illegal, witnesses said. And here’s the key thing: Knowledge of the plot being illegal is significant when it comes to proving whether the Jan. 6 plotters committed a crime. [If Trump's two key advisors knew it was a crime, then Trump knew it was a crime and White House lawyers were saying so.]

"Eastman emailed Giuliani and asked to be put on Trump’s pardon list."

"The House's ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings are illegitimate and their presentation one-sided. They failed to include "all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story," Donald Trump.

The committee has been literally begging for Trump's associates to come forward.

The Post continued, "Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) specifically named House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.); Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who corresponded with Trump lawyer John Eastman about his attempts to overturn the election results."

Earlier, the committee had urged Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, and others to come forward.

“We’re not going to close the door on hearing from anyone,” Aguilar said.

So far, none have come forward to defend Trump. Congressional Republicans are so quiet one could hear a pin drop.

The forum's Republicans remain silent on the issues as well.

With Trump as their leader, Republicans expect to win control of Congress in November.

 

ABC reports, "Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed's efforts so far to tame it.

"Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession.

"A worse-than-expected inflation report for May — consumer prices rocketed up 8.6% from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1981 — helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point Wednesday.

"Not since 1994 has the central bank raised its key rate by that much all at once. What's more, several more hikes are coming."

The rate hike only affects borrowing; borrowing to buy a house or a car along with credit card borrowing. The rate has little or no effect on gas or food prices, in other words, the day-to-day spending by Americans, meaning the issues that are bothering most Americans.

For that reason, it is conceivable that President Biden along with Democrats running for office in November are privately hoping for a recession.

While the Fed's rate hikes won't lower prices on gas and food, a recession certainly will.

Of course, then Americans will blame Biden for the recession even though that is the only way prices will be lowered. Americans know so little about economic principles.

With full employment and prosperity comes inflation caused by increased spending. A recession is a downturn in the economy and prices go down due to less spending. Perhaps two percent of the population know that.

 

Politico reports, "The Jan. 6 select committee made its most forceful case Thursday that Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election was more than an affront to the democratic process — it was a crime.

"For all the panel’s public quibbling over whether to vote on referring Trump to the Justice Department for a possible criminal case, members did it their own way. They used Thursday’s public hearing to present what they see as some of their most compelling evidence and thereby mount a case, with Attorney General Merrick Garland watching, that Trump broke the law in his effort to make former Vice President Mike Pence single-handedly overturn the election.

The Times reports, "A day after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault illustrated the serious danger that rioters posed to Mike Pence, former President Donald J. Trump unleashed a new attack on the man who had served him as vice president, criticizing him for refusing to interfere with the Electoral College certification of the 2020 presidential contest.

"Speaking on Friday afternoon before a faith-based group [?!?], Mr. Trump said that “Mike did not have the courage to act” in trying to unilaterally reject the Electoral College votes that were being cast for Joseph R. Biden Jr."

Mostly, Republicans are saying nothing. When one or two speak up to defend Trump, they all use the same strategy. They say everyone is lying and that a Congressional hearing is a kangaroo court. They do not deal with the actual evidence because they have no idea what it is.

Consequently, Trump's gullible, uninformed followers do not know that those testifying are Republicans and many were a part of the Trump White House.

The witnesses include Trump's vice-president, Pence's chief of staff, Pence's counsel, Trump's attorney general, White House counsel, his daughter, Ivanka, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, along with several others.

Trump's followers expect to win control of Congress in November.

 

LISTEN: Hunter Biden says his father, Joe, will "talk about anything that I want him to” "If I say it's important to me, then he will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform”
Audio
https://twitter.com/STEPHMHAMILL/status/1537503273887801345

 

Many Trump endorsed Republican candidates are winning. Most were favorites anyway. Here is the disturbing part. These candidates support the view that Trump won the election and the coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021. If they didn't believe that, they would not have gotten Trump's endorsement.

In other words, Republicans running for office -- governor, secretary of state, state legislatures, U.S. Congress, etc. -- support the attempted overthrow of the elected government on Jan. 6, 2021.

Republicans have gone off the deep end!

CNN reports, "The Republican Party of Texas over the weekend adopted a resolution at its state convention that rejects President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, further aligning the state party establishment with former President Donald Trump in pushing false election claims.

“We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” reads the resolution."

Republicans are just as nuts in Missouri.

"Eric Greitens, a leading contender for the Republican Senate nomination in Missouri, released a new video in which he is depicted as hunting RINOs (Republicans in Name Only)," CNN.

"I’m Eric Greitens, Navy SEAL, and today we’re going RINO hunting.” Greitens says as he walks down a sidewalk with a gun in hand.

The video cuts to a house where Greitens, surrounded by what looks like a tactical unit, waits by the door. “The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice,” says Greitens. The unit smashes the door down and throws what looks like a smoke grenade. Greitens strides through the door. “Join the MAGA crew,” he says. “Get a RINO hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

Greitens is a former governor of Missouri. According to Wikipedia, "In February 2018, Greitens was charged with felony invasion of privacy and later with campaign-related offenses. He was indicted on felony charges of computer tampering in April 2018;[8] all charges were dropped in May 2018. Greitens resigned from office on June 1, 2018,[9] after the Missouri General Assembly commenced a special session to consider impeachment."

The Jan. 6 select committee made its most forceful case on Thursday that former Republican President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election was more than an affront to the democratic process — it was a crime.

What is wrong with the Republican Party?

We will never know. As you can see, Republicans don't talk about the issues presented.

 

The Republican Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016

The Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, wanted Donald Trump to become our President in 2016 and wanted the Republican Party to be in power.

He is being rewarded handsomely. America is in turmoil. The very basis of our democracy, free elections, is under attack. Who is responsible for this attack? Aided by a very conservative Supreme Court that has become so unpopular it has walled itself off from the American people, Trump and the Republican Party, of course, while Republicans remain silent.

CNN reports, "Homeland and national security officials are worried about how Russia could significantly exploit US divisions over the November midterms, considering scenarios like Russia staging smaller hacks of local election authorities – done with the deliberate purpose of being noticed – and then using that to seed more conspiracies about the integrity of American elections.

"These efforts, the officials said, would be designed to dovetail with the false doubts about the 2020 presidential election spread by former President Donald Trump and many of his allies.

"Although US elections have become more secure in recent years, officials say that an atmosphere of distrust in America’s elections, coupled with the sheer number of local election systems, means there’s no way to truly be ready for such a convergence of Russian asymmetric warfare techniques."

Is anyone surprised?

Grassroots Republicans have no idea what is going on. They avoid respected news sources and threads like this one. Republicans are not fans of reality.

 

Slow day around the liberal water cooler when you have to rehash a 2 year old article ... 04/21/2020

And no we don't avoid this kind of garbage because we know the truth..

It was when a president Obama, VP Biden, the intelligence community knowingly used manufactured and created garbage scenario of a collusion by Hillary bought and paid for...
None of it was never looked into and no one ever charged in a treasonous act to overthrow a duly elected president in a coup...
Not only did Mueller, the FBI knew, CIA, Obama, Biden, all our intelligence agencies knew...
All documented... and undeniable.... The Obama Whitehouse was in on it... how much more "in your face" can you get and no one goes to jail..
Strange how our Republican special prosecutor Mueller missed this.... maybe he did not do a very good job of investigation...
""Former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to tie the Trump campaign to Russia as a means of distracting the public from her private email server scandal before the 2016 election, according to newly declassified documents.""
https://news.yahoo.com/dni-releases-cia-documents-hillary-204337457.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dni-brennan-notes-cia-memo-clinton
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/0...ral-on-clinton-campaigns-collusion-operation/



And here is Brennan's hand written note...

 

As we have let the left hijack another Biden thread into a Trump thread to keep the forum topics about Trump on the top threads and push anything about Biden down in to page 2 and 3 ...

Let's let Trump speak for himself (which the thread is not about), about what a loser Biden is (which the thread is about)

Former President Donald Trump on "Eric Bolling The Balance"

https://rumble.com/v196qka-former-president-donald-trump-on-eric-bolling-the-balance.html

 

ABC reports, "The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held another hearing Tuesday on the pressure campaign it says former President Donald Trump and allies put on state election officials as part of a larger "seven-part scheme" to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

"Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led the hearing Tuesday focused on Trump's pressure campaign on state election officials, appeared to speak to Attorney General Merrick Garland and other prosecutors at the Department of Justice watching the committee unfold its findings, reminding the public that lawmakers will not be the ones to bring charges to Trump and allies."

"Whether his actions were criminal will ultimately be for others to decide. But what he did was without a doubt unconstitutional. It was unpatriotic, and it was fundamentally un-American," Schiff said.

"The committee has appeared to make the case that Trump directly engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the government," ABC.

"The committee played audio clips of the now-infamous phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump told Raffensperger he needed to "find" 11,780 votes in Georgia -- just one vote over the margin by which he trailed President-elect Joe Biden -- so he could be declared the winner of an election that three separate counts in the state confirmed he lost.

"The call lasted 67 minutes and appeared to follow a cycle of Trump offering false election conspiracies and Raffensperger calmly explaining to him that each one was not accurate. At one point, Trump suggested to Raffensperger that his inaction could mean he was criminally liable."

Reversing the scales of justice is an old trick played by Trump many times. He knows he is criminally liable, but he can't help himself. He is mentally unstable from a narcissistic point of view, and he can't accept losing.

 

The report above did not do justice to the Jan. 6 hearing today. One had to watch it to get the full impact. Suffice to say that it was extremely damaging to Trump and the Republican Party, and it is being played out to a national television audience. It is as if Trump wanted to destroy his own party.

One can only surmise that Trump was deranged. He was warned countless times by his own advisors, his own family, for crying out loud. To attempt a coup of this size with little or no support was just plain nuts, doomed to fail from the very start. Only someone with a mental problem would try it.

CNN reports, "Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, riot as it lifts the curtain on some of its findings with public hearings that have garnered gavel-to-gavel cable coverage – much to the annoyance of the TV-obsessed former President.

"He has taken his complaints about the committee on the road, lashing out at the congressional panel during a speech to conservatives in Nashville last Friday."

“I don’t understand why Kevin didn’t put anyone on the committee,” a reference to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s decision to boycott the select committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two Republican members he originally chose to sit on the panel.

"Trump’s growing frustration with the absence of any hard core supporters on the select committee – which has given the panel uninterrupted air time and deprived Republicans of the ability to cross-examine witnesses in real time."

Trump is clueless and completely unaware of his own vulnerability. He really thinks some should come forward and defend him.

There is no defense, and Republicans are proving it with their silence.

McCarthy didn't assign anyone to the committee because he couldn't find any Republicans willing to make fools of themselves trying to defend Trump's actions. McCarthy promised a Republican investigation. There was none for the same reason.

Those testifying against Trump are members of his party.

I told you Trump was nuts.

The problem facing the Republican Party: They are culpable. On Jan. 7, 2021, 147 Republicans voted to accept Trump's Big Lie, to wit, the election was stolen from Trump. In this year's primaries, many Republicans who are winning have Trump's endorsement, meaning those Republicans also believe in Trump's lie, thus earning Trump's endorsement.

In view of the extremely damaging testimony in the past week, one would call that culpable.

How do the forum's Republicans feel about all this? We don't know. Their silence continues.

 

This is a hearing... not a court of law.

 

Crown Prince Alexander Karađorđević of Yugoslavia and his wife, Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia, met with Biden in November 2015, and didn’t hesitate asking the then-vice president’s son for an expensive favor, emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned hard drive show.

“We were having problems with the state budget for the Royal Compound consisting of two palaces built by my grandfather King Alexander I of Yugoslavia. We were hoping that Hunter might be able to help with his father to solve the problem,” Alexander told The Post.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hu...nvestment-meeting-serbian-president-oligarchs

https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/serbian-royals-asked-hunter-biden-for-help-to-restore-palace/

 

CNN reports, "Donald Trump’s Big Lie is becoming a big problem for the media outlets that comprise his powerful propaganda arm.

"On the same day that the former president’s scheme to remain in power was further exposed at another January 6 Committee hearing, Fox and OAN suffered legal defeats in court related to their advancement of his election lies. And last week, on Thursday, Newsmax also suffered a legal loss.

"So far, the right-wing media outlets that peddled Trump’s false election narratives have had little luck winning in court against the voting tech companies suing them for billions of dollars. It is early in the process, of course. But the string of defeats these media outlets have suffered indicate that these lawsuits have some teeth to them.

"The cases also point toward the fact that Trump’s election lies will be litigated in court, through multiple cases, regardless of whether the Department of Justice pursues charges against him or not…"

Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, is in a heap of trouble. For that matter, so is the Republican Party, and the mid-terms are just around the corner.

 

A court of law is where a jury gets to see the evidence. A hearing is where you get to see the evidence. Obviously you can't convict anybody, like a jury can. But you can look at the evidence and reach a conclusion without needing somebody else to tell you what your conclusion is.

Of course, it's intellectually less demanding to just repeat somebody else's opinion. But I just happen to prefer thinking for myself.

 

However, that conclusion can only be correct if you see all the evidence. And with the way this hearing is being conducted, there is no such assurance.

 

It's impossible to see ALL the evidence in a handful of hearings. But any evidence ... ANY whatsoever... will only expose more of Trump's crimes.

There is a reason why those most deeply involved refuse to testify. They KNOW they can't lie under oath. I can only picture an innocent person being EAGER to provide THEIR evidence. So, when they do, they will either commit perjury, or sink Trump even further.

Unless you can point to ANY evidence... even hypothetical... that would absolve Trump. And which would not be an all-out "Wag the Dog" conspiracy theory

 

That is precisely what is wrong with the hearings. There is a presumption of guilt. There is no effort to get all the facts which might prove otherwise.

Plus the are only being questioned by hostile interrogators. They are not questioned by friendly interrogators who are aware of all that has been brought up in the past. And thus, ask questions more favorable to the defence.

I have no way of knowing of any such evidence since there is no effort to illicit such information by the investigators. .