Marc Elias: sycophants

[Hermit-The-Prog]

I hope that everyone reading the 1/6 committee transcripts now realizes there was no "team normal" in the Trump White House. With strikingly few exceptions, there were immoral sycophants and deranged sycophants.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Some of us knew that

Long before the committee was formed. 🤓

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Long before trump was elected.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. The sycophants include immediate family, so also kin to a criminal enterprise organizational chart.

[2naSalit]

3. Yup.

Most everyone within earshot of NYC certainly knew all about the stink on his shit.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. The media had earplugs on, never a hint of Resign you Immoral Fool!, not once. Maddening media.

[FakeNoose]

6. Well yes, because any "team normal" people had been excised before the coup attempt

Even before the 2020 election - and definitely after it - Chump fired and replaced anyone who didn't go along with his Big Lie. Don't we know that already? The warning signs were all there.

[BootinUp]

7. So true... kick

[tanyev]

8. This!

[lambchopp59]

9. These were, Trumpsqualor's "best".

Just like the best university. The best steaks. The best casinos. As long as it funnels cash or prostration praise unto his majesty it's "the best".

[ancianita]

10. Sycophants now chargeable as aiders and abettors and accessories after the fact.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Don't be getting my hopes up.

[ancianita]

12. I hear you. But Jack Smith is known for being thorough, and handling charges at scale.

He knows what he's doing and has enough evidence to make all those charges. Since you admit to having hopes, I'ma work to get them up. 'Tis the season of hope.

[BootinUp]

13. "handling charges at scale" that sounds wonderful

I am wondering how you came up with it.

[ancianita]

15. He'll oversee over 80+ lawyers who've already gathered evidence and built DOJ cases on Trump.

He handled domestic violence and sex crimes as Asst. DA in Manhattan.
In the DOJ's Public Integrity Section he prosecuted a variety of corruption cases
-- Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell,
-- U.S. Representative Rick Renzi,
-- New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and
-- Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA agent.

In the Hague, Kosovo’s ex-president Hashim Thaci sits detained in jail because Jack Smith's aggressive effort to win back reluctant witnesses—by targeting the tight-lipped politicians and militant nationalists who had kept them silent. Smith had to defend his work from widespread accusations that he was conducting an unfair political prosecution to remove the nation’s favorite leader. And the narrative was that cooperators are traitors—and that these lawyers like Smith were trying to destroy the country.

We're talking high profile, political cases. Not small fry. Not low hanging fruit.

I came by this by reading. If you look at the sheer volume of what the DOJ prosecutes every day, you'll see that our biggest law firm on the planet is beyond badass.

[BootinUp]

18. Ty

[ancianita]

20. By the way, JS has already empaneled a Special Counsel federal grand jury and subpoenaed people.

It exists until March, if he needs it. In the meantime, I'm goin' out on a limb to say that Hold My Beer Smith starts indictments before then, sometime after President Biden's State of the Union address.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. I'm in wait and see mode while seizing any good news I find.

The threat is still there as long as these creatures are free and without consequences.

[ancianita]

16. Duly noted.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. My wildest, secret hope...

The Pooty Caucus gets indicted and Republicans lose the House majority and the resulting special elections give Democrats the majority again. (Pretty sure there are enough Putineers in the House to swing the majority, if there are enough patriots to kick them out after indictment).

[ Edit to add: damn! Now it's not a secret. ]

[ancianita]

19. SEE? Know what? It will come true!

No dumbasses, no frauds, no politicians are above the law. Not with Jack Smith.