Guilty
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So I’m reading around this morning and I don’t know what to think. I’m afraid this guilty verdict will have zero impact on Election Day.
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It’s a podcast. This one has Sarah Isgur and David French talking about the verdict.
What’s to appeal, possibility of jail time, impact on standing to run for and/or to serve as President, etc. -
Did you hear what Blagojevich said?
"I love Trump more today than ever!" Blagojevich said in the post. "When you’ve lived through it yourself you recognize when they do it to someone else. The political fix was in from the beginning. Disgraceful and corrupt convictions of the leading candidate from the opposition party by a handpicked politicized Dem judge who denied a former President a chance to put on a defense and allowed ridiculously unlawful jury instructions. That Dem Judge and those Dem prosecutors ought to go right to F’n jail for what they are doing to our democracy and our country," Blagojevich said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office in January 2009 when he was convicted in a public corruption trial for trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat of Barack Obama, who had just been elected President.
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Thanks for posting that. Will give it a listen.
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Watched George Conway try to deal with the absurdities of Jennings this morning. I am not encouraged. Not at all.
“I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.”—Gloria Steinem to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wiser Than Me
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The BBC talks to voters after the verdict.
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thanks for that link, I've been curious about how this will be reported outside of the US
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People are calling this political persecution, and saying "just wait, Democrats. Now you've opened the floodgates."
John Boehner thought they opened a long time ago. A snippet about what he had to say in his 2021 memoir about the Clinton impeachment.
Former Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, says in a new memoir that he regrets supporting the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, calling it a partisan attack that he now wishes he had repudiated.
In his book “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Boehner blames Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, then the No. 2 Republican, for leading a politically motivated campaign against Mr. Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
The Republican-led House voted to impeach Mr. Clinton on two counts in 1998. He was acquitted by the Senate.
“In my view, Republicans impeached him for one reason and one reason only — because it was strenuously recommended to us by one Tom DeLay,” Mr. Boehner writes. “Tom believed that impeaching Clinton would win us all these House seats, would be a big win politically, and he convinced enough of the membership and the G.O.P. base that this was true.
“I was on board at the time,” Mr. Boehner went on. “I won’t pretend otherwise. But I regret it now. I regret that I didn’t fight against it.”
I don't have a gift link for the NYT, where I got the above but I managed to read the article using Reader View.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/us/politics/boehner-clinton-impeachment.html
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Boehner also dished on TFG.
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Watched George Conway try to deal with the absurdities of Jennings this morning. I am not encouraged. Not at all.
I think I found the exchange between those two.
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Trump’s private demand to Johnson: Help overturn my conviction
As the former president heads to Capitol Hill, he is privately seeking for legislative revenge.“We accuse Democrats of weaponizing the Justice system,” said another skeptical senior Republican who was granted anonymity to speak with fear of MAGA blowback. “That’s exactly what we’d be doing.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/donald-trump-conviction-mike-johnson-00163128
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