The intrigue: The "Rule of Five" law allows any five members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to request federal agencies to provide information about "any matter within the jurisdiction of the committee."

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[–] 44 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

What's the plan if the files contain damming evidence against Trump? Will he be impeached? Will he be arrested like anybody else? Will there just be no consequences whatsoever? What is the protocol when the president is revealed to have committed heinous crimes? I want to know NOW!

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  • [+] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Will they slap him with this?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's what happens when more than 33 senators are willing to stand by the president no matter what they do I suppose. When it came to honor/shame, no one ever thought someone so wretched wouldn't just be forcibly removed by the people around them.

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  • [+] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't have much faith they'll care. A big part of their ideology is hurting women and children. It's already well known he's a rapist, he's said as much himself. They famously don't care about truth. I think absolutely damning evidence will come out, and they'll move forward without much fuss.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Anecdotally I have seen evidence of Trump supporters in my own life who have fallen off their love of him. Mostly though it's because their own lives have not improved. They aren't hardcore magas just people who don't know any better, are not smart, kind of racist, or just sucked into whatever rabbit hole they've found.

    I doubt it'll change much what's presented in media and functionally who's voting for him/others like him. But it's been nice not to hear people praise him day to day in my own life.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    people who have been ensconced in MAGA, entirely because they think every Democrat eats babies, will have their reality shattered

    Hard to have your reality shattered when you weren't living in reality to begin with.

    You've got a clutch of hooting, screaming podcaster apes who have been flogging Epstein as the Rosetta Stone of a dozen different conspiracy theories. They were supposed to dine out on Pam Bondi dripping "Breaking! New Epstein Things! Rosie O'Donald and Greta Thunberg definitely in the same state as Jeffrey during peak pedophilia era!"

    Instead, Trump just puts the kabosh on the whole thing, barely a month after Bondi teases a whole string of info dumps.

    If you can jangle a different set of keys in their faces, they'll come back around. Trump's just not willing to do that because he's gone into his "bored of being President" phase.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Well, if 20 Republicans crossed the aisle he could be removed from office. I think more likely is we'll be seeing lots of GOP seats lost in the midterm elections.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    if 20 Republicans crossed the aisle he could be removed from office.

    I would sooner bank on 20 Dems leaping to his defense in the name of bipartisanship

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    The fact that they're spineless

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So, your unfounded feelings? You're basically just a Republican trying to Cope, is that what you came here to say?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    They would 100% never let files with Trump's name in it out. This is going to absolutely backfire on the Democrats when the Republicans inevitably release a doctored list with all their political enemies on it. This is so much better for the Dems when the files are a big MacGuffin. Even if by some miracle they did release the actual list and Trump was on it, they would say it was a witch hunt by the corrupt Biden administration and MAGA would eat it up. There will never be legal consequences for any of them, ever. If they ever do get consequences it will be because of some brave Luigi.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Well once it really gets proven he is a pedo, which we're pretty close to, his own base will likely eat him alive and, I dunno, split off into factions?

    What will happen?

    Anywhere from nothing to full out civil war, pushed mostly by the crazies MAGA.

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