Posted on 04/28/2021 1:08:29 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The fanatical Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol in January are facing an unexpected obstacle to their freedom: Trump himself.
Trump’s refusal to accept the reality that he lost the 2020 election — reflected in a torrent of recent statements renewing discredited claims about a “rigged” vote — has become a feature of prosecutors’ latest attempts to jail Capitol riot defendants they deem too dangerous to release pending trial.
Judges have started citing this argument — as part of broader analysis — in cases where they've decided to detain defendants for presenting a threat of future violence, and even in some cases where they’ve agreed to let defendants go free, pending trial. They’ve agreed that Trump’s rhetoric could spur his most radicalized supporters to attack again. And that could be bad news for dozens of additional riot suspects being hauled in on alleged conspiracy and police assault charges.
“Former President Donald J. Trump continues to make forceful public comments about the ‘stolen election,’ chastising individuals who did not reject the supposedly illegitimate results that put the current administration in place,” Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote in a recent opinion ordering the detention of Jan. 6 defendant Jack Whitton, charged with one of the most brutal assaults that day.
“[S]uch comments reflect the continued threat posed by individuals like Mr. Whitton, who has demonstrated that he is willing and able to engage in extreme and terrifying levels of violence against law enforcement with a chilling disregard for the rule of law … seemingly based on mistaken beliefs about the illegitimacy of the current administration.”
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If he'd only back down, he wouldn't be alienating his base so. Please make him back down. We don't want his base alienated. Pleaaaaaase!
Trump’s refusal to accept a fraudulent election.
A total witch hunt
Russia!
The Capitol “rioters” weren’t Trump voters (marchers maybe but not the rioters).
CNN even hired a professional agitator who encouraged the crowed to do stuff.
The same partisan hack that tried to railroad Michael Flynne.
Speaking against the Leftist narrative is bad. Got it, trashPolitico.
BS!
Biased and corrupted judges along with a split judicial system that says insurrection only occurs during the daylight is the cause.
Lol the junta is using hostages now. If Trump accepts the steal, maybe people can be let out of jail. Our government is Ol Yeller now. Once a trusted helper. Protected the family from mountain lions, bears and snakes. Guarded the henhouse. But then one day got a disease of the brain. Now it’s the obligation of the family to put down that dog driven to insanity with rabies.
DC is Ol Yeller.
So their guilt or innocence depends on the actions of others? Is this America?
More brutal than the attack on Ashli Babbitt?? I didn't think so.
No, just their good behavior if released on bail. Cowboys for Trump members might start praying again, because Trump hasn’t backed down. They might start smacking police officers with fire extinguishers for real this time!
When was DC ever a trusted helper?
b s
Irrational argument logically and constitutionally.
Mark of a dictatorship.
When actual voter fraud evidence is heard and judges in open court the we can talk. Until the the election was stolen and Biden is a fraud.
If I was being prosecuted, this would only make me stick to my guns (the truth) more.
Does the madness ever end.
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