GOP leaders say the vote was needed to counter White House stonewalling of requests for information. But even some Republicans say there’s no evidence so far of presidential wrongdoing.

Corruption? I wouldn’t be very much surprised, simply because rich people in positions of power are like that.

The part about the informant reminded me of another informant that swore up and down that Saddam Hussein had huge stockpiles of “weapons of mass destruction” -remember that? There weren’t any.

By a trick of memory, I am also reminded of the previous Gulf war, and the harrowing testimony before Congress of a 15 year old girl about witnessing Iraqi soldiers emptying and taking incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital and leaving Kuwaiti babies to die on the cold hard floor. This also turned out to be a completely fictional story, told by (it was later revealed) the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, that had been coached by a public relations firm called Hill & Knowlton, that was at the time contracted by the Kuwaiti government.

So I guess you can’t always trust informants or evidence produced by republican activity.

  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
    62·
    6 months ago

    Dang…people really do deny that Trump incited a insurrection. Y’all are wild.

    We all watched him do it, caught red-handed, and then we’re supposed to be like, but he’s innocent until proven guilty!. Therefore he did nothing wrong.

    That state between conviction and innocence is true for every criminal. Hell, the argument that “illegal” immigrants are invading the country is undermined by the conservative stance on Trump. Yeah, we can see videos of immigrants entering the country, but they’re not convicted of anything, and therefore are innocent

    To insist on the innocence of Trump over the innocence of immigrants is purely motivated reasoning. It just shows clearly that conservatives couldn’t care less about principles, even those as immutable as basic logic, but are openly and proudly self-serving.

    And the conduct of Hunter Biden reflects on Joe to the same extent the conduct of a crackhead reflects on any rich parent.

    Also, just to twist the knife, Biden isn’t on Epstein’s list. But Trump is! Multiple times even!

    • Throwaway@lemm.eeM
      210·
      6 months ago

      1. Jan 6 wasnt an insurrection, it was a protest.

      2. Trump did not incite jan 6.

      • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
        51·
        6 months ago

        Protests don’t break into buildings hosting elections. Trump is their leader, who intentionally riled them up with lies and sent them in.

        • Throwaway@lemm.eeM
          29·
          6 months ago

          Have you seen the footage? They basically just walked around for a few hours. And it wasn’t broken into, they were literally waved in.

          Trump literally told them to go home.

              • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
                4·
                6 months ago

                These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.

                You can’t just ignore the majority of the tweet, especially while pointing to the very literal last tweet of the day, after all the events transpired.

    • HitlerCunnyRape@lemm.ee
      211·
      6 months ago

      We all watched him do it, caught red-handed, and then we’re supposed to be like, but he’s innocent until proven guilty!. Therefore he did nothing wrong

      Just saying “we watched it” doesn’t actually mean it happened. You’re free to just be wrong