Posted on 01/13/2021 6:33:59 PM PST by Candor7
House Democrats have drafted an article of impeachment that accuses President Trump of “incitement to insurrection.” Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin said Thursday that his office is “looking at all actors here and anyone that had a role” in the Capitol riot. Some reporters have construed that as including Mr. Trump.
The president didn’t commit incitement or any other crime. I should know. As a Washington prosecutor I earned the nickname “protester prosecutor” from the antiwar group CodePink. In one trial, I convicted 31 protesters who disrupted congressional traffic by obstructing the Capitol Crypt. In another, I convicted a CodePink activist who smeared her hands with fake blood, charged at then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a House hearing room, and incited the audience to seize the secretary of state physically. In other cases, I dropped charges when the facts fell short of the legal standard for incitement. One such defendant was the antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan.
Hostile journalists and lawmakers have suggested Mr. Trump incited the riot when he told a rally that Republicans need to “fight much harder.” Mr. Trump suggested the crowd walk to the Capitol: “We’re going to cheer on brave senators and congressmen and -women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.”..
...The president didn’t mention violence on Wednesday, much less provoke or incite it. He said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
The NYT published a time line on the assault on the capital. The breach happened 20 minutes before President Trump finished his speech. This was planned. The FBI is investigating the planned conspiracy.
Democrats tell their supporters to “get in their faces. Punish your enemies. Unrest will not stop.” etc etc etc. Nothing happens to them. Trump says “peacefully protest” and the think the world is coming to an end.
A bunch of GD hypocrites and liars.
Karma is a bitch!
LOL!
Ping to the truth. One more false “impeachment” of the President not based on fact.
Nancy Pelosi as Speaker has brought mmore articles of impeachment to the floor than all other impeachments n the history of Congress.
She has weaponized the impeachment process to achieve an end that Congress no longer be a bicameral body.
Now all funding legislation in the new Senate will be designed by Bernie Sanders as the head of the Senate budget committee, using the reconciliation process in order to cut out all Republicans from the legislative process.
If you’re a Left winger your riot is described as “mostly peaceful” but otherwise, even when there isn’t a littering problem, as the Tea Party lacked a littering problem, you remind them of Hitler.
Maybe “virtuous conservatives” should quit acting like a bunch of boy and girl scouts.
Our side better start practicing political warfare “as it is.”
Not how they would “like it to be.”
https://rumble.com/vchuw9-trump-speech-at-dc-jan-6-2021-stop-the-steal.html
Here is what he said in case you want to check and see for yourself.
Thanks for the link. I also listened to his whole speech live. It was spirited but in no way was it incitement, or a call to violence.
Typical of every Trump rally where there never was violence at any of them.
I resemble that remark.
<< The FBI is investigating the planned conspiracy. >>
The FBI is far more likely to be INVOLVED in the planned operation than sincerely investigating it.
Agreed.
I call them RINO pearl clutchers.
They do not like it when The People dirty their rugs and use their toilets.
Who in hell do they think paid for it all?
The FBI is far more likely to be INVOLVED in the planned operation than sincerely investigating it.>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed.
That’s why we need military intel investigating it too.
Impeachment begun by the Washington Times 16 minutes into the Trump administration
A "Russian Hoax" that went to three years in length,
at a cost of $41 Million dollars to the American public,
which found "No collusion with Russia", no evidence of any collusion.
You want evidence of Trump Derangement Syndrome ?
How about more than 8 months of holding back agreement on covid relief to the nation,
because she refused to allow him to be given credit for saving jobs, homes, and the nation's economy.
Now there's your credibility on impeachment !
Pelosi needs to go.
As Jim Jordon pointed out today, Nancy Pelosi in her term as Speaker has brought more impeachment resolutions to the floor than all the impeachments before in our entire history.
I’d say she has a mental illness.
Or is it an crotchety old hag thing, permanent habitual PMS ??
I thought that the WSJ had gone over to The Dark Side.
Didn’t Hillary say that protesting was the most American thing one could do, or something like that.
The impeachment today just shows the craziness of Pelosi more than anything else. She is eaten up with hate and is out of control. She has the chicken sh%T democrats doing what she says because they are terrified of her even though she’s obviously bat sh&^ crazy. Then we have some deranged, psycho R’s joining in because they wish they were really democrats.
They have turned Impeachment into a Badge of Honor.
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