What else can the Republicans do to protect the criminal Defendant ex-president?

[kentuck]

Most have been silent. That has helped the Defendant a lot.

Many in the House are threatening to impeach Joe Biden.

Some are calling for the de-funding of the Special Counsel and the DOJ and many are calling for the firing of Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.

Georgia has passed a law with the sole intent of firing the Fulton County DA, Fani Willis.

They are revenge-motivated. Some have even called to bring back hanging as the answer to their "political problem".

Some of the more loyal Republican Committee Chairs are attempting to subpoena the documents of local and state officials that relate to the Defendant's prosecution.

They are doing everything they can for the criminal Defendant, short of laying their heads on the railroad tracks.

[TSExile]

1. This right here...

...is why after almost 20 years of voting R, I changed my voter registration to D. I will never go back. Spineless, sniveling, greedy cowards, the lot of them.

[niyad]

27. Welcome to our DU family.

[NowISeetheLight]

30. Welcome

I just passed two years here at DU. A great bunch. As a fellow former Republican I certainly do not regret leaving the party. The party left me long before.

[TSExile]

35. Thank you both!!

Happy to be here!!

[Walleye]

2. Poor Mark Meadows, if he just stayed in the Congress he could be writing bogus charges against Biden

Instead he’s defending himself against a charge that could bring years in a Georgia jail. Could’ve been in the freedom caucus chiming in with Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene. The mighty have fallen

[kentuck]

3. Yeah, he could have been in the limelight...

...instead of running and hiding from the cameras.

He's a snake, deserving of jail.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. The identity of the Jan 6 Bomber can only be suppressed for so long

and when that breaks it will elevate things to a higher level, in my humble observation.

[rampartc]

5. taylor green?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. I can't believe they don't have suspects

they just need proof or are saving confirmation for an opportune time.

[sarcasmo]

17. Hooves knows.

[Historic NY]

18. I can believe that it was her role, how is it a newbie unsworn critter

was suddenly in WH meetings and hanging around the big guy. What part of the plan was she responsible for?

[Irish_Dem]

6. They are protecting themselves. Because most of them committed crimes for Trump.

So far the traitorous members of congress have not been touched.

I think the message from the GOP is that if you start arresting MOC we
will rain hell on the Dems, DOJ, FBI, state prosecutors.

[MiHale]

10. Message Dems should be sending...

We will make you unelectable, when you lose, we’re coming.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Another message: You do the crime, you do the time.

And arrest those MOC guilty of being part of Trump's plot to overthrow the US government.

[gab13by13]

11. If Scott Perry hasn't been indicted yet,

Magat members of Congress have immunity. Over a year and accessing his seized phone is still tied up in the courts.

Was Loudermilk even interviewed by the FBI when he gave the insurrectionists a tour of the Capitol?

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes it certainly looks like MOC are totally immune from prosecution for their crimes.

And what about Cruz, Hawley, MTG, Gaetz, etc.

Certainly they at least knew what was going to happen and did nothing.
But I think they did take some action to help.

[gibraltar72]

8. Start taking hostages.

[gab13by13]

9. They want to impeach the Secretary of Defense Austin Carr

for his role, and Biden's role, in the troubled withdrawal from Afghanistan.

[Ohioboy]

31. The withdrawal that Trump setup the timeline for?

Instead of taking all the time to plot how to overturn the election, Trump should have been working on the plans he put in motion for the withdrawal. He should have been helping his country with coming major events he put in motion. Trump chose his ego over a smooth transition of power.

[Biophilic]

14. They are truly desperate but desperate animals can do a lot of damage.

[Biophilic]

15. They are truly desperate but desperate animals can do a lot of damage.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. The overall GOP goal of unplugging democratic rule, federal legal authority, and the

New Deal/Great Society progressive institutions is best served by ignoring Law and Order, legal and Congressional rules and precedent in favor of ideological "purity" and the personality cult of DJT.

They are not your father's Republicans nor the party of pragmatic conservatism they pretend to be. They exist to serve unfettered greed and maniacal lust for power expressed as cruelty to those least able to defend themselves, enlightened humanity in general, and utter contempt for the laws of Nature, Physics, God, and Humanity alike.

They will say and do anything, anytime, and everywhere they can to distort reality in service of their mania.

What many do not realize is the present party membership was recruited to support exactly the kinds of egomaniacal mayhem DJT embodies. From local school boards, to the statehouses and Congress the majority live and breathe the same bizarre anti-faith in common justice and the social contract. They are the product of a well financed plan to overturn democratic rule in favor of neo-religious fascism organized by ultra-wealthy individuals whose only real value is expressing their power and vanity.

[Orrex]

19. Obviously the hurricane is God's punishment

For Georgia daring to, you know, persecute his beloved orange messenger.

[speak easy]

20. Explode an atomic bomb over Atlanta?

[Emile]

21. Nothing, he is going to prison.

[Artcatt]

22. The goal is hitlerian: scorched Earth.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Motherfucker Ain't Gettin' Away. MAGA

[JohnnyRingo]

24. They can help get him in the White House.

Hopefully the GOP won't do that, but he's a useful stooge to them. I think the party fears he's inelectable.

[twodogsbarking]

26. They know what he did last election.

[Ray Bruns]

25. Does dropping your trousers and bending over count?

[SKKY]

28. Their only play is to "flood the zone with bullshit" on Biden and hope...

...something sticks. They really have nothing to run on, so they're trying to run against something.

[Martin Eden]

29. One if two things MUST BE TRUE:

1. They are delusional enough to believe the Defendant is innocent of all the felony counts for which grand juries of citizens indicted him.

2. They are willing to destroy the foundation of American democracy and rule of law for political power and to appease their voting base.

Both #1 & #2 above should disqualify anyone from holding public office.

[brooklynite]

32. How does Impeaching President Biden help?

Ditto, definding the Special Counsel (which would require Senate concurrence).

[Ohioboy]

33. They help him the most with their spinelessness

This idiot should have been stopped through impeachment. That's the process the founders put in place to prevent this kind of BS.

[Faux pas]

34. There

isn't a human being among them.