re: Facts confirmed so far from the Jan 6th show trial

It doesn't matter what trump actually said or did. The committee is being run by people who are familiar with trump's thinking. Trump was impeached the first time based on what a military official thought trump meant...and not what he actually said.

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Funny how they are threads on DU claiming the exact opposite. They are saying enough evidence has already been presented to charge Trump

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What's their answer for why he hasn't been charged yet?

The second it came out that these pieces of shite hired the ex-ABC guy to produce this thing, I knew. This is just a theatrical attempt to shift the focus of the shite-fest going on in people's everyday lives. It's cheap and disingenuous and a new wrinkle out of the Dem's playbook.

Levin made a great comparison last night. This is pretty similar to the Stalin Show Trials.

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The "Show Trials"
Few of the thousands arrested during the Stalin purges ever saw a Soviet courtroom. Special secret police boards sentenced defendants without them even being present. "When it is a question of annihilating the enemy," Stalin's chief prosecutor pronounced, "we can do it just as well without a trial."

Between 1936 and 1938, however, Stalin conducted three "show trials" involving about 50 top Communist Party leaders and government officials. Stalin wanted to convince the world's press that accused criminals were being treated fairly. Also, these scripted trials were intended to discredit the old generation of Communists who still posed a potential threat to Stalin's rule.

The most serious charge leveled at the defendants was that they conspired with Trotsky (who lived in exile outside the USSR) to assassinate Lenin, Stalin, and other Soviet leaders. In addition, the accused were charged with spying for foreign powers and sabotaging the economy. The evidence consisted almost entirely of the confessions of the defendants themselves. State-appointed attorneys, when they were permitted, played little role in the proceedings.

The most spectacular of the "show trials" was the last, held in March 1938. With Stalin looking on from a darkened viewing area, the script of the trial almost fell to pieces on the first day when defendant Nikolai Krestinsky refused to plead guilty. After a night with his interrogators, he reversed himself. "I fully and completely admit that I am guilty of all the gravest charges brought against me personally," a subdued Krestinsky said.

The most important defendant at this trial was Nikolai Bukharin, known as the "Heir of Lenin." Following the first "show trial" in 1936, Bukharin accused Stalin of trying to take over the Communist Party to increase his personal power. A year later, Bukharin was arrested. After interrogations that went on for more than a year, Bukharin confessed to belonging to a 'Trotskyite Bloc" whose purpose was to restore capitalism to the USSR. While confessing to the general charges, Bukharin denied committing specific criminal acts such as plotting the deaths of Lenin and Stalin.

Andrei Vyshinsky, the chief prosecutor, summed up the case against the 21 defendants at the last "show trial." He referred to them as "a foul-smelling heap of human garbage." As for Bukharin, Vyshinsky called him "the damnable cross of a fox and a swine." The chief prosecutor went on to demand that the accused "must be shot like dirty dogs!" He then concluded with this tribute to the leader of the Soviet Union:

Over the road cleared of the last scum and filth of the past, we our people, with our beloved leader and teacher, the great Stalin, at our head will march as before onwards and onwards, towards Communism!

The judge found all the defendants guilty on all the charges (there were no jury trials in the Soviet judicial system). All were subsequently shot.

During the peak of the Stalin purges (1937-38), over 7 million Soviet citizens were arrested. Of these, more than a million were executed. Millions more died in the gulags (prison camps) of Siberia. Stalin's last major enemy, Leon Trotsky, was assassinated in Mexico in 1940. With Trotsky's death, Stalin had finally obliterated the old generation of Communists and replaced them with a new generation of party and government officials completely in the grasp of the "man of steel."

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Stalin's Show Trials

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And it is a shame that we have RINOs hoping for this to end Trump.

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The going theory is that Trump and Desantis are being set up to oppose each other and knock each other out to clear the way for a RINO. This puts that theory to bed.

I am not going to watch a single minute. I will limit any articles I read. This is complete theatre.

If for any reason I'm wrong about this, please post the pertinent information on the PoliBoard.

Meanwhile, 247,165,228 more muchacos have crossed the border illegally and that's ok.


Dems, all of them, are jackasses.

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They are trying to tie him to the fake electors to show an attempted coup.

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The electors were selected in the event the courts made a reasonable ruling about election issues like the Pennsylvania DA. There was no coup, douchebag.

Did they ever find out who Ray Epps was?

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It was a complete set up by FBI & Nancy She declined the national guard, DC mayor did not provide extra security and there was NO place to use bathroom (all businesses closed) and city did not have portapotties . Been to DC before & plenty of facilities were available.. they unlocked magnetic doors (from inside obviously) & let ppl in. We have all seen the videos!!!!

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This is true. We had nowhere to eat and we were locked inside our hotels.