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I sincerely hope that the Committee does not rely solely on Merrick Garland's Justice Department to prosecute these blackguards. They deserve to feel the full weight of the law for their intransigence, and anything less will just empower the next round of nose-thumbing. I am not entirely sure that Garland is willing to go the distance needed in this case.

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I wonder how Bannon is spinning this to his (large) podcast audience.

I've not seen anyone in this whole movement to overthrow our government who is more severely underestimated than Bannon.

He is the driving intellectual force behind coalescing the interests of many global oligarchs and the populist forces in the US that he helped marshal for Trump.

Expect cries of political persecution to be leveraged as a spark to further lawlessness and call for succession etc. from nutbag Republican governors and pols.

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Bannon and others of key importance to the insurrection's planning and execution must be forced to appear even if it means a prolonged court fight. That said, if Bannon et al. do show up to testify, I expect to hear hundreds of Fifth Amendment statements from them.

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I am really frustrated and more than a little disgusted these days by the Dems. They are waiving strongly worded letters around saying WE WILL DO SOMETHING…and then times passes and so little happens that the public couldn’t care less. Oh maybe Garland will do something, so many maybes, so many proclamations of we won’t stand for this and…nothing happens. Dems in disarray…they can’t stop that narrative and continue to look trampled all over even while they hold all 3 branches - yes by a hair but still…Lots of press conferences and declarations and then it’s pass it on and see what if anyone will do anything. Meanwhile our house is burning down and the Dems will lose the House. They really don’t understand what is at stake here do they?

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