This episode, one of the new details in that four-count indictment released Tuesday, serves to underscore the prosecution’s central argument: that Trump knowingly lied about the outcome of the 2020 election in service of a plot to defraud the American people of the right to choose their own leader.
The combination of Trump’s awful judgment and willingness to take extreme actions based on his absurd beliefs makes him a uniquely dangerous person to hold any high office: a man who thinks that the vice president failed by being “too honest” in opposing what amounted to a kind of coup attempt.
In one of the most striking passages, Smith quotes “a Senior Campaign Advisor” — reported by CNN to be Trump confidante Jason Miller — admitting that their team couldn’t defend the arguments they were making (about Georgia specifically).
He chose to believe demonstrably nutty people like Powell over virtually every credible authority in the United States: his own Justice Department, his own political advisors, leading Republicans around the country, and repeated rulings against him in open court.
In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges revealed by the indictment, Smith reports on a conversation on the topic between Co-Conspirator 4 — apparently Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark — and deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin.
I had to hide a bot that was just mindlessly reposting hundreds of Reddit posts to related Lemmy communities. I also had to block a sports instance that had a bot for EACH FOOTBALL TEAM posting the results of every game. Twice. Both teams bad their own communities and bots.
I work at a pretty large HQ and they don’t enforce anything either way. In fact, they said we just work from certain states for tax reasons, but beyond that, there’s nothing else. I come in once a week for a change of pace, but prefer the battlestation at home. I have a better setup, less distraction, and tend to work longer hours.
Bringing me back in would not make things better in any way, but I almost feel bad for them having a large building that sits empty so much.
Had a coworker give birth recently. She told us it was “rough” and casually dropped that she hemorrhaged almost 2,000ml of blood. My jaw dropped. (The average person has~4l of blood, and she’s small)
Put this piece of garbage in the most awful prison we have. Alone and unloved and forgotten with no hope of ever being free. Fuck him over but don’t add murder to the world.
The problem with all of this are the number of knuckle draggers that say “don’t care still voting for him”. Seriously, and all these people just go move to some freedom island somewhere filled with maga gear and dick pills and pickups and trump hotels?
I live in Pittsburgh. Originally the trial was supposed to take place in 2020 but got pushed back due to covid.
Then the jury pool was absolutely massive. My roommate and I both got served juror summons. I didn’t have to go to the courthouse on my date, and he didn’t get called as a juror when he went down. I feel like they were related to this.
I was actually surprised they held the trial in the city, especially for a federal one. The wounds for this tragedy cut pretty deep here.
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