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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaw Professor on Bluesky points out one TEENY TINY LITTLE "inconvenient detail" about the WHC Dinner incident. OUCH.
Jen Taub
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Let me get this straight. The DOJ is indicting someone who allegedly broke through security with intent to kill leaders including the VP & Speaker of the House.
Has EVERYONE forgotten that Trump pardoned convicted felons who stormed broke into the Capitol with intent to kill the VP & Speaker?
Let me get this straight. The DOJ is indicting someone who allegedly broke through security with intent to kill leaders including the VP & Speaker of the House.
— Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T15:22:56.087Z
Has EVERYONE forgotten that Trump pardoned convicted felons who stormed broke into the Capitol with intent to kill the VP & Speaker?
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malaise
(297,248 posts)complete with a noose
Blue Owl
(59,413 posts)Donald tRump, the Pedophile of 1,000 Pardons
senseandsensibility
(25,314 posts)that Cole was charged with attempted assassination of trump. So of course they are going for the absolute maximum. Situational ethics are their specialty.
Mad_Machine76
(24,978 posts)is serving life
dalton99a
(94,886 posts)Goonch
(5,391 posts)
dave99
(110 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,582 posts)onenote
(46,199 posts)malaise
(297,248 posts)onenote
(46,199 posts)when it comes to the prosecution of the guy arrested at the Corespondents' dinner. In fact, thus far it has been held to be legally irrelevant with respect to the prosecution of the guy arrested for planting bombs on January 5.
malaise
(297,248 posts)RVN VET71
(3,208 posts)I doubt that January 6th will be raised during the gunman's trial. But it should be if only to show how the President is, himself, really no better than the gunman who attempted to murder him.
Trump organized and incited the January 6th riot, refusing to discourage the mob he'd created when that mob started going after Members of Congress to kill them -- especially Democrats -- and also to hang Trump's Vice President, Mike Pence. Now the media is framing the horrors of the story as someone almost breaking through security barriers to murder the president. The irony, of course, is that both crimes are identical --- except January 6th was, of course, much worse and much more damaging to America.
ColoringFool
(907 posts)EX500rider
(12,660 posts)UnderThisLaw
(336 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,666 posts)A federal pardon can be issued prior to the start of a legal case or inquiry, prior to any indictments being issued, for unspecified offenses, and prior to or after a conviction for a federal crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States
EX500rider
(12,660 posts)flvegan
(66,422 posts)with this bunch of morons?
Also, it's not an "inconvenient detail" at all. It's a feature, as they say. Not a bug. It's working as intended.
Miles Archer
(23,903 posts)...to point out that while I'm sure everyone on DU has it dialed in, it was the first time I've seen it "said out loud" since the dinner. And I haven't heard it said out loud many times before that, either. We talk about it here all the time. I'm thinking of most people I know outside of DU. Hence, the "inconvenient detail" thing was intended as irony / sarcasm.
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,046 posts)..Leavitt went on and on about left-wing rhetoric supposedly inspiring violence while completely ignoring the attack on Paul Pelosi, the murders of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, the targeting of District Court Judge Esther Salas and subsequent murder of her son in their home, etc.--not to even mention the Capitol Riots.
And President [REDACTED] made fun of the attack on Pelosi and shared conspiracy theories about both his attack and the Hortman murders.
Also, I guess somehow the "radical-left" wants to both take your guns so you can't kill innocent school children AND use them to kill politicians in their view.
70sEraVet
(5,555 posts)the DOJ will have to admit that that describes only the President.
Good times!
Kid Berwyn
(24,819 posts)Looks like we need to bury another lede.
calimary
(90,430 posts)VERY good point.
ColoringFool
(907 posts)Cha
(319,920 posts)BWdem4life
(3,041 posts)And ok to assault cops in defense of Dear Leader, but otherwise not, unless there's some other reason which aligns with your politics (using that word incorrectly I'm sure).
sop
(19,023 posts)And orders the DOJ to pay him a multi-million dollar "settlement"?
Miles Archer
(23,903 posts)We're seeing the disconnects with the redistricting in Virginia being met with howls of anguish from the Republicans, and it probably never would have happened if Trump hadn't started it.
eppur_se_muova
(42,226 posts)Wednesdays
(22,910 posts)IOKIYAR.
It's okay if you're a Republican.
orleans
(37,099 posts)Where are the journalists? They should be FOCUSED on this hypocrisy? Why didn't Dana Bash ask this kind of question of @raskin.house.gov instead of suggesting that criticism of Trump encourages political violence?
— Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T15:24:20.376Z
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BattleRow
(2,635 posts)popsdenver
(2,469 posts)are having extreme difficulty adapting to these "new" Republican's Dictatorship/Tyrannical take over of the U.S.A..................
AND folks, you ain't seen NOTHING yet...........Katie Bar The Door !!!!!!!!! (I fear it is rapidly becoming too late, if it is not already too late.......) For Four and a Half decades, the Republicans have been inching forward, now they are at an all out Gallop..........
Again I state that the perfect title for a book about the past 46+ years, and most certainly the past TEN years, would be:
WHILE THE NATION SLEPT.....................
And my opinion is.......that almost all of the Dem Politicians in the U.S. House and U.S Senate.... are all walking around with glazed eyes..... STILL napping instead of constantly Screaming their Heads Off..............Still totally dis-organized, and without ANY leadership, consensus, or direction............
Tell me I am wrong...............
malaise
(297,248 posts)Shopped?
wildflowergardener
(1,032 posts)Yes but they (j6ers) werent there to attack him. These people were.
FDRFTW
(99 posts)usonian
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