Special Counsel Smith's remarks on the Malignant Loser's January 6 coup plot indictment --
Jack Smith says Jan. 6 was "unprecedented assault" on democracy. "It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election" pic.twitter.com/FL9WzxQlo0
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 1, 2023
Weaponization --
Striking passage from the indictment here: Trump reinserted language attacking Pence into his speech to the 1/6 mob right after Pence rebuffed his pressure to halt the electoral count. Suggests Trump expressly understood the mob as his weapon of pressure against Pence. pic.twitter.com/2VlKVRzSQW
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 1, 2023
Wild that the president of this country tried to have a mob of psychos kill his vice president. https://t.co/VGXAJhDcHb
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 2, 2023
They wanted to send the military to shoot us in the streets. Remember that.
— Rob Tracinski (@Tracinski) August 2, 2023
I don't think for a moment the military would have done that. But they wanted it. https://t.co/ufsoX6pOU3
Foiling the criminal --
Arresting Trump when he’s running for president is like arresting the Unibomber on his way to the post office.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 2, 2023
Michigan's election fraud expert --
Matt DePerno, who promised to indict Democrats for election fraud if he was elected AG of Michigan, has just been indicted for a scheme to tamper with voting machines. https://t.co/Y7PnGwXi3S
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 1, 2023
Are the worms turning? --
Pence with quite the statement tonight: “Today's indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States.”
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) August 1, 2023
Mark Meadows ‘flipped hard’ on Trump: ex-January 6 committee adviser @RepRiggleman predicts based on indictment
— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) August 1, 2023
My latest for @RawStory is live! https://t.co/vT4yhGxBX4
... OTOH --
Not one of the GOP presidential candidates can figure out how to run against a guy who is on trial for:
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) August 2, 2023
(a) rape charge
(b) paying a porn star hush money
(c) violating the Espionage Act
(d) conspiracy to overturn the results of an election@SykesCharlie @DrJasonJohnson @11thHour
VP Harris' RSVP to Bootsie: I'm not going to help you out of the hole you dug --
VP Kamala Harris on Gov. DeSantis "invite" to Florida to: "I'm here in Florida and I will tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: there were no redeeming qualities of slavery." pic.twitter.com/Mah07TSNp6
— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) August 1, 2023
The Guns of August --
2 Aug 1914: #France orders the #mobilization of all armed forces in preparation for World War I. The next day, the #French learn that #Germany has declared war on them. #WWI #history #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://t.co/RlLvgvb0Q1 pic.twitter.com/4iyqqqHipB
— Today In History (@URDailyHistory) August 2, 2023
