Co-conspirator?
Posted on 05/04/2023 8:44:02 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Guilty verdicts in the most consequential January 6 trial will be the green light the Justice Department has been waiting for to go after the former president.
Of the hundreds of video clips used as evidence in the marathon trial of five members of the Proud Boys, prosecutors began closing arguments not with a clip of the defendants engaged in criminal activity but with a clip of Donald Trump.
The government showed the jury a portion of the September 2020 presidential debate; goaded by Joe Biden and then-Fox News host Chris Wallace to condemn “white supremacists and militia groups” in an effort to downplay Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence, Trump asked them to “give me a name.” Biden quickly answered, “the Proud Boys.”
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” Trump said in response.
The offhand remark—Trump later said he did not know who the Proud Boys were—made the group “jubilant,” assistant U.S. Attorney Conor Mulroe told the jury on Monday morning. “These defendants saw themselves as Donald Trump’s army, fighting to keep their preferred leader in power no matter what,” Mulroe said, referring to Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Enrique Tarrio, Dominic Pezzola, and Zachary Rehl. Prosecutors have used the clip at other points during the nearly four-month trial—a not-so-subtle reminder to jurors from a city that voted 93 percent for Joe Biden that the men on trial supported Trump. But the Justice Department may have a more sisnter reason to tie the Proud Boys to the former president. Any convictions in this trial would give Special Counsel Jack Smith, an independent prosecutor in name only, justification to pursue similar charges against Trump as a coconspirator of sorts.
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He’s ready for any and all of it. Anyone doubting this could check recent history, discern his character, behavior and statements
Or…tgey could just look at the photo above
It’s too bad for the prosecution the words were “Stand back, stand by” which literally means do nothing. Kind of destroys the case.
‘Biden quickly answered, “the Proud Boys.”’
Or did Biden say “the poor boys?”
Or not.
JUST IN: Proud Boys Leader and Others Found GUILTY of Sedition of Jan 6 Plot
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Trump is not going to worry about kangaroo court trials of defendants with whom he was not associated.
they had to find someone guilty of insurrection to have a leader guilty of insurrection...
The J6 trials are Stalinist showtrials. The verdict was rendered before the charges were levied.
The J6 Trials are a preemptive attack, meant to strike fear into the heart of anyone possessed of the idea that it’s time to pick up a pitchfork and march on Washington because this government is irredeemably corrupt and tyrannical.
If Jack Smith indicts Trump, that could give some states a signal not to allow his name on the ballot in November 2024. Of course that would only matter in close states (he has no chance in some states anyway). In 1968 California omitted the Presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party from the ballot because he was less than 35 years old.
Article II issues (age and citizenship requirements) are a legitimate reason to keep a name off a ballot... bogus investigations aren’t.
The Democratic Party specializes in bogus investigations.
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