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      Doesn’t matter. They’re looking for a witch to distract from Trump’s assorted crimes.

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    Can we do the Doj next then for failing to release all the Epstein files as legally obligated by Congress and failing to answer why?

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    Poor guy was screwed either way. It was a no-win situation for him.

    If he answered the questions they would have demonized him for his answers and prosecuted him on some bullshit charges.

    If he pleaded the fifth (which he did) they would have demonized him for that. And prosecuted him for contempt.

    And the whole argument that he has a pre-emptive pardon from Biden is bullshit. This administration - with the judicial system firmly in their pocket - will find a way to dismiss that if they need to.

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      This is quite literally the entire reason the 5th amendment exists, in the first place. If someone is trying to trap you into incriminating yourself, you have every right to simply not play along.

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    This is the entire problem with pre-emptive pardons and why it’s fucked up whether it’s Joe Biden or trump handing them out:

    The pardon from Biden covered acts from 2014 through the January 2025 day it was issued. It does not shield Fauci from state-level prosecutions or from investigations into any testimony that he did give that lawmakers thought was false.

    It’s been fucked since Nixon got the first one over 50 years, and clearly if we don’t do anything about, it’s going to keep being a problem.

    All this shit does is tell every single American:

    The justice system is corrupt at the highest levels, but rather than attempt to fix the system, the powerful will just take care of each other and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.

    Even if people don’t realize that, that’s what they hear. And it has a large effect on a populace and is usually the clearest sign a society has already failed.

    When everyone believes the system is corrupt, they stop caring about what’s right and only caring about if they can get away with something.

    It’s the root cause of why shit is so fucked up and everyone is so selfish.

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    Edit: We The third of the country who reelected Trump deserve the next pandemic. We They deserve the resulting deaths, the suffering, etc. All because a third of the country they let Trump and his goon squad back into office.

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      No we don’t. “We” tried to stop all this shit. The ones doing all this bullshit are the minority and have all the goddamn money.