Sasse statement: "Every American needs to understand what the Dept. of Justice has just made public"

[Nevilledog]

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Sasse statement: “Every American needs to understand what the Department of Justice has just made public: Investigators have strong evidence to suggest that some of the rioters who stormed the United States Capitol planned to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Vice President.”
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[ffr]

1. And Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house.

I'm sure any democrat would have made their day too.

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[leftieNanner]

33. AOC has said that she feared for her life as well. nt

[calimary]

44. Yep.

They weren’t shouting “where’s Nancy?” because they were autograph collectors.

[mopinko]

46. presley, too. rippedd out her panic buttons.

[True Blue American]

71. I would like to know who ripped out

Those panic buttons, inside job.

And my thoughts are the thugs were after bigger fry than those 4.

[mopinko]

73. i keep waiting to here if this happened in any other offices.

but havent. would be surprised it the whole squad was targeted.

[True Blue American]

75. I have heard numerous ones say their panic buttons were ripped out.

That was when I began to wonder.

[live love laugh]

62. Pence was a side dish Pelosi and AOC the main courses. nt

[icymist]

81. And Sen. Chuck Grassley, President pro tempore of the Senate

Which would effectively leave T...p as the lone person in power. I shudder when I think of how close this came.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

2. K&R!

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R for exposure

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. And this is TRUMP'S DOJ making this statement.

I suspect that most of the civil leadership is backing Pence. Imagine what Biden's DOJ is going to find out...

[renate]

6. I remember all the references to "It Can't Happen Here" when Bush was president....

Never in a million years would I have dreamed it could get THIS bad in the United States of America. It's just so heartbreaking.

[murielm99]

19. I was one of the people who made those references.

I reread the book during those years.

Who knew it could get this bad? And it ain't over yet.

[True Blue American]

72. Most of us never expected a crime mob!

[weissmam]

45. one word

Trump

[bdamomma]

47. a celebrity

con man, they had 15 other candidates to choose from and the picked this rascist POS, who has gutted our country.

[mdbl]

74. Every GOP candidate was a piece of shit

but they picked the biggest piece

[woodsprite]

7. You know they were aiming for Pence, Pelosi, and Grassley

That would have made Pompeo the next most probable choice.

[Kitchari]

52. That's what I think, too

Murderous thugs wanted to alter the line of succession

[Bettie]

65. And yet, NONE of that

would have made Spanky president again.

He lost the election.

Murderous thugs who are so profoundly damaged that they can't manage rational thought.

[awesomerwb1]

8. Should have included a picture of the gallows

[TeamPooka]

9. at least Pence knows his 4 years of sucking up to a criminal were worth it. Right Mikey?

[TomDaisy]

11. is Pence dumb/deluded enough to think he could ever be the nominee in 2024???

MAGAts hate him. How does he think he's going to overcome that??????

[TeamPooka]

15. They are all that dumb. Cruz, Rubio et al. They didn't understand they have handed the GOP

to the Trump family and they are all in line behind Ivanka and Don Jr.

[moonscape]

50. Only way is to pardon Trump were he to

resign. Trump won’t since he doesn’t trust Pence to do it, but even after all this I think Pence would be coerced in to it by the right.

[czarjak]

57. R will be the only thing that matters!

[Trueblue Texan]

70. everyone hates that cowardly weasel. nt

[TomDaisy]

10. Dear Jenna Ryan Real Estate agent -- you are in way over your head derp derp

but I don't feel sorry for you

[underpants]

17. Not according to her life coach

[OMGWTF]

28. (Insert Drum Sting Here)

[COL Mustard]

54. Womp womp

Sad trombone

[Generic Other]

13. He should have said GOP "rage-peddlers"

GOP "Rage-peddlers are going to whitewash...a few bad apples..." Their "few bad apples" spoiled the whole bunch.

[progressoid]

34. He's testing the waters for a presidential run. He can't risk pissing off to many potential voters.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

14. Basically

Since Pence wasn’t going to let 45 get his way with certifying the election, 45 tried to murder him by proxy.

Isn’t that a crime?

[Iggo]

26. It might be. I'll have to check.

Yep. Murder for hire is totally a crime.

Who knew?

[OMGWTF]

29. Charles Manson didn't kill anyone either -- he had his cultists do it for him.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Well Ben,we all know your are

trying to clean up you Image because of your White House Run starting later this year.

Carrying water for the Rickett's Family once again.

[stopdiggin]

18. Have the Ricketts bunch been after Trump recently?

Guess I must have missed that.
(so much going on -- I can't get to everything)

[Wellstone ruled]

21. Kind of followed a little as to what

was going on with Stimulus Payments. Found our Ricketts has a hand in the Debit Cards that are and were sent to people. Then found the Ricketts were major donors to Sasse.

Ricketts and another Billionaire from South Dakota set up a Industrial Bank just to handle these Debit Cards. Five dollar charge for each transaction? What the F is that all about. Just a ton of Political Patronage.

[stopdiggin]

27. Oh, the Ricketts clan are predatory capitalists no mistake

(also look into the "student loan" scam) I was just questioning the closeness of ties. And how much a "mouthpiece" the senator was for the Ricketts' "brand." My impression -- Sasse is positioning himself as the "anti-" Trump/Cruz/Hawley Republican.
(but, like I said -- I can barely keep track of the people I'm actually interested in!)

[Wellstone ruled]

40. Sasse is positioning himself in front of

Hawley and Cruz as well as Pence. Been amazed at the Sheeple of Nebraska and South Dakota are so blind to vote to keep the likes of Sasse and Noem in office. Collective IQ = 0 ?

[Marthe48]

20. Let's not mince words

n/t

[George II]

22. I wonder how Pence feels about trump now.

[Traildogbob]

25. So.....

Odds of Pence Pardoning trump?
I kind of want to see him put on that spot,
May be why trump claims he will not resign.
His only out is to try that self Pardon, that should bomb. And if he Pardons all the terrorists, including congress members, that will define GOP forever.
Not sure Mega donors will want that stain on their businesses.

[stopdiggin]

35. Actually -- pretty sure that Pence has LOATHED the man

for a very long time. (as did many in the party) But, like so many others, he managed to choke down the vomit time after time -- in order to achieve perceived "goals."

[Wawannabe]

37. Um

He wasn’t choking down vomit...it was something else!
But I won’t go there on DU!

[MustLoveBeagles]

59. He'll never say it publicly but I'm sure he hates him

[cbdo2007]

23. Also there are co-conspirators in the House that have infiltrated our govt.

This isn't just a random group of thugs who had this plan, this was planned with help from current sitting members of Congress.

[wishstar]

24. and this was after President repeatedly claimed Pence could and should block the electoral votes

At my count, Trump called out Pence three times in his rally speech and then Trump tweeted at 2:24 after Capitol had been breached that Pence had failed to do what Trump had told him to do to stop the count.

[Dukkha]

30. and still refused to invoke the 25th

a cowardly fake christian to the bitter pathetic end.

[Wawannabe]

38. 👆

And worse! tRump belongs in jail and Pence is just one step away from the same piece of shit that Donnie 2x is!

[OverBurn]

64. The VP has no sack at all, Ken doll bare.

[raccoon]

31. K&R. Wish I cou give this more recs! Nt

[DanieRains]

32. And Republican Congressmen Gave Them Recon Tours The Day Before

Benny left that part out.....

[Liberty Belle]

36. They asked directions to Schumer's office & tore out panic buttons at Pressley's office, a black

legislator --sure sounds like they intended to kill them, too.

[MustLoveBeagles]

58. I'm so glad she's okay

I wonder how many other offices that happened too? I doubt it was only hers.

[spanone]

39. Domestic Terrorists

[bdamomma]

41. and possibly more

like the Speaker Pelosi too. Terrorists were asking "where's Nancy?" Give me a fucking break they were going to assassinate and kill Congress people.

[birdographer]

42. But oh boy

don't make trumpy mad by throwing the 25th at him!

[AllaN01Bear]

43. anyone who got in their way.

police , etc.

[Autumn]

48. I really don't think Pence understands that.

[BGBD]

49. Yeah, of course they did.

I mean, they were chanting "Hang Mike Pence." I don't think their intentions were all that hidden.

Of course some of the groups might have planned it more in depth and maybe even had better capabilities to do that.

Again, usually anyone involved in a felony can be charged for any act committed during the felony. This includes things like robbing a bank and having a cop shoot your partner. You are guilty of murder in their death. If your partner shoot a cop, you are guilty of that as well.

I don't see why they can't charge anyone in the building with this as well.

[Lucky Luciano]

51. Death penalty.

[maxsolomon]

53. Some need to lower that temperature more than others, Ben

I've stopped running logical and factual rings around Trumpist fools online, but there is a simple reason: they've stopped running their fool mouths.

[KayF]

55. "lower the temperature" sounds to me

sounds to me like his coming excuse for acquitting Trump again:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/cory-gardner-marco-rubio-ben-sasse-impeachment-cowards.html

Which Republicans Had the Worst Excuses for Ending the Impeachment Trial With No Witnesses?

2. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska

Sasse fashioned his career in the Senate, as Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley described it, as a “performatively deep thinker, an advocate of public decency.” What does the man who wrote a book titled The Vanishing American Adult think of Trump’s conduct in the Ukraine affair and whether or not witnesses should be called in his Senate trial? “Let me be clear; Lamar speaks for lots and lots of us,” Sasse told CNN’s Manu Raju, doing the presumably adult thing of deferring his reasoning for the most important decision of his public life to someone else. Even there, the straight-talking champion of integrity wouldn’t take the risk of repeating those words with his own mouth. “I asked if he believes then that Trump acted inappropriately,” Raju reported. “Sasse didn’t answer.”

[Skittles]

56. and only 10 repukes think this is worthy of impeachment

not as bad as a bj I guess

[badboy67]

60. Hope we find out what's on Trump's secret server.

[tclambert]

61. Many in the mob chanted, "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!"

That might be, you know, like a clue.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

63. Well, Pence doesn't seem to mind.

Otherwise he would 25 45.

[EndlessWire]

76. I'm confused over this.

I get why we wanted him gone immediately. For one thing, we could have prevented Trump from having his Saturday meeting. But, between the two options, I'd rather have a shot at convicting him in the Senate.

Is it possible that Pence got even with Trump by allowing him to be impeached instead?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

78. I'm not sure they couldn't do both. They are still

going on with the impeachment trial after his term is over. And Rs are grumbling & whining about "Next Dems will impeach George Washington!" And I'll be surprised if they don't try to impeach Obama as retribution.

I've been surprised over the past 4 years to find that even the experts disagree about many of the rules, so I don't feel quite as bad about my confusion over these sorts of matters.

[EndlessWire]

79. TY n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

80. YW n/t

[Cha]

66. Rt TY my sister was

mentioning this earlier today.. saying she had read it but didn't know if it were true. I told her I had read the same & it seemed to be from credible sources like they had some kind of proof.

And, now this.

[JI7]

67. So he is upset they were coming after Pence but didn't seem to bother him they actually made their

way to Pelosi's office .

[MadMike47]

68. Hey Sasse!

It's time you get your head out of your ass!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

69. KnR...nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

77. I've understood this "intellectually" for some time now, but...

...viscerally, it just hasn't landed, for some reason. It really is momentous, and should have packed more of a punch, at least for me. Hmmmmm.....

I wonder if I should be a little worried.

[CTyankee]

82. I also wonder about that. But I am beginning to understand and even see the enormous impact

our sense of relief will be when we have Inauguration Day. Then it will be real: we have WON against an imperial tyranny. Our republic survived!