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'Make them riot' — Trump election case judge unseals special counsel motion on immunity (www.cnbc.com)

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[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 97 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The filing said that when the co-conspirator was told that a batch of votes appeared to be heavily in favor of Biden, he replied, “find a reason it isn’t,” so as to “give me options to file litigation,” adding, “even if it [is].”

When a colleague suggested to the co-conspirator that this could risk creating a scene reminiscent of the so-called “Brooks Brothers Riot” — an infamous bid to interfere with Florida’s vote-counting effort in the 2000 presidential election — the co-conspirator “responded, ‘Make them riot’ and ‘Do it!!!,’” according to the filing.

The special counsel also wrote that then-Vice President Mike Pence tried to “gradually and gently” convince Trump to accept his election loss, providing numerous examples.

On Nov. 7, 2020, as major news outlets called the race for Biden, Pence “tried to encourage” Trump to accept that the race was over, telling the president, “You took a dying political party and gave it a new lease on life,” according to the filing.

What a new life he gave them too. Pushed it to 11.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago

C'mon! That's just locker room talk. You can't take that seriously.

/s because that's exactly what his MAGoos will claim

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I remember being a teenager, too. But then i became an adult and learned about other people's personal boundaries and realized how much of our "locker room talk" was wildly offensive.

Sadly, you're right.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

I had locker room jobs most of my life. I never heard anyone claim to be a rapist. Not once.

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's bullshit. It was when half of America accepted it that i started to really worry that Trump might win.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

"I like soldiers who didn't get captured."

And most of them fly the black POW/MIA flag next to their MAGoo banners

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And have both thin blue line and don't tread on me stickers on either side of a Punisher logo.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

https://screenrant.com/punisher-hates-dirty-cops-police/#:~:text=With%20American%20police%20rallying%20around%20The%20Punisher's%20logo,

In the comics The Punisher knows he's crazy. He always tells people that if they want a hero go to Captain America [In the comics, Steve Roger's super power is that he's always on the right side.]

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

because that’s exactly what his MAGoos will claim

No, those braindead dip shits still claim the election was stolen and fraud and everything.

[-] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 89 points 2 months ago

The guys a straight up traitor to the flag. Fuck every trump, lock them all up for treason

[-] grue@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

The prescribed penalty for treason is not imprisonment.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately if another comment I've read is to be believed "judge" Cannon is in charge of the case related to treason (Read: she will squash it) but there is another case related to sedition that will go farther, until I imagine it ultimately hits the rubber stamp SCOTUS where they'll referr to some 2nd century pig farmer law and try to claim that makes anything they don't like unconstitutional.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

I am not holding my breath that anything will come of this. The Courts are corrupt. Congress is corrupt. The Press is corrupt.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Well even though the courts will kick this down the road, the media will spin like a top, at least youtube debate channels will have one more thing to rub in "peaceful" maga supporters faces.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I hope that when this is all over they put Stephen Cheung in a very dark hole then throw that hole into the sun.

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