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Jack Smith’s Charges Against Trump Include Potential Death Penalty
Breitbart ^ | 1 Aug 2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 08/01/2023 6:38:40 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment Tuesday against former President Donald Trump for his role in attempting to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election includes several weighty felonies, including one for which death may be a penalty.

18 U.S.C § 241, “Conspiracy Against Rights,” includes a penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison. But it adds that if death results from the actions covered under this provision, the offender may be executed:

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

One person — Ashli Babbitt, a rioter shot by a law enforcement officer — died as a result of the Capitol riot on January 6, which Smith said Tuesday was the result of Trump’s claims about the election. But Democrats have blamed Trump for the unrelated deaths of several protesters and Capitol Police officers.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; deepstate; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; equaljusticeunderlaw; hangjacksmith; harassment; indictment; jacksmith; jacktherippersmith; notabovethelaw; nothelawmoron; persecution; trump
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To: Leep

You are correct.


121 posted on 08/02/2023 7:28:18 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: SoConPubbie

All of those charge happened while DJT was in office. The remedy for them is Impeachment. Done 2x. This amounts to double jeopardy at best. IMHO


122 posted on 08/02/2023 7:53:32 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: basalt
why our side is not doing the same stuff back at them is unreal....someone charge that cop with murder, some one charge Schumer with threatening a SC Judge....charge Harris with incitement to riot. You start doing this same stuff back, theyll knock it off....

We're not doing that because the DOJ and FBI are captured operations of the Democrat party. They will never go after Democrats. Weaponizing government departments against rivals is standard practice for Democrats. Recall the use of the IRS against conservatives in years past. The bad eggs in the IRS never faced prosecution. We also have a weaponized EPA and Dept of Labor now. The unaccountable bureaucrats are used as a taxpayer financed gestapo.

123 posted on 08/02/2023 7:54:16 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: SoConPubbie

This charging like the others before it cam the day after major facts on the Biden Crime family hit the media.

So the whole Biden Crime family reporting amounts to yelling ‘squirrel’ and ll the attention goes to these false charges, and Biden is just a footnote, if that.

And it is working ... people are believing that DJT is some sort of hardened, evil criminal and will not vote for him in the 2024 election, not that it will make any difference anyway; the 2024 election was lost in 2020.


124 posted on 08/02/2023 7:59:11 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Myrddin

Michael Byrd executed Ashli Babbitt without just cause. It is Byrd who should be prosecuted for first degree murder.

Absolutely! By Byrd getting away with it, that opens the door for government troops to quell any protesting.
Tianenmen Square, anyone?


125 posted on 08/02/2023 8:09:47 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: PIF
And it is working ... people are believing that DJT is some sort of hardened, evil criminal and will not vote for him in the 2024 election, not that it will make any difference anyway; the 2024 election was lost in 2020.

I highly doubt that is the case.

While there are a lot of stupid people in the USA, there is not enough who are stupid enough and who vote for this behavior to have a major impact.
126 posted on 08/02/2023 8:45:51 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: SoConPubbie

there is not enough who are stupid enough and who vote for this behavior to have a major impact.

They are coming over the border in the millions.


127 posted on 08/02/2023 9:12:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Vermont Lt

A pardon for a non-crime. I wouldn’t plan Trump if he accepted that, but it would signal the complete surrender of the American people. Most would shrug, not a care in the world.


128 posted on 08/02/2023 10:15:36 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: PIF

Wow. That’s an interesting take.

Never thought of that.

But, to take it to an extreme, what if he committed murder. Impeachment would remove him from office, but it would not address the criminal act. That would take a follow up indictment a prosecution.

Impeachment is a political act. Criminal courts are for criminal acts.


129 posted on 08/02/2023 10:23:52 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

According to the Constitution criminal acts in office are covered by Impeachment. Criminal courts are for civil offenses and cannot be charged for ‘crimes’ which are enumerated in the constitution. Charging again is double jeopardy.


130 posted on 08/02/2023 11:00:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SoConPubbie

Anyone ever notice how similar Jack Smith looks to Roland Friesler the Nazi “People’s Court” judge/prosecutor of the July 20 assassination attempt on leftist national socialist Hitler— some 2000 people murdered for the “plot”

The same haughty crazed look of a desperate man on a mission... for a Socialist cause. Two links to images. Eerie resemblance imho.

Jack Smith:
Photo taken in 2018 after he quit his job as head of litigation for Hospital Corporation of America (CEO at the beginning of 2019,Samuel N. Hazen. Co-Founder Thomas Frist, wealthiest Tennessean whose brother is former Senator Bill Frist, huge stockholder and Bush pal 12 years in the Senate).

https://kossev.info/us-prosecutor-jack-smith-appointed-specialist-prosecutor/

Roland Freisler: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=Roland+Freisler&iax=images&ia=images


131 posted on 08/02/2023 11:34:00 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: All
One image demonstrates just how far this country has fallen.

Are enough people awake yet?

132 posted on 08/02/2023 12:21:48 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: SoConPubbie
If this case actually goes to a jury...which will depend *entirely* on political events occurring between now and November 2024....a DC jury will *absolutely* convict him on all counts and rule that his crimes resulted in death and,as a result,recommend the death penalty.
133 posted on 08/02/2023 2:38:21 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: All

Can anyone point to a article that will tear apart each of these 4 charges? Like why they are skewed, out of context, etc?


134 posted on 08/02/2023 4:29:46 PM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: CatOwner

They don’t have the manpower to try and ruthlessly control the entire nation physically and replacement weapons for what has been squandered in Ukraine aren’t coming soon.
They are inviting a guerilla conflict that will last years. Things will break down in a hurry. They can try to control the cities but the gangbangers and innercity youths raised with no moral guidance will be hard to control without lethal violence applied to them. Every one will be open to be accused to be a “insurrectionist”. Farmers who can grow things will sit on their hand or only grow enough to feed their own. Illegal aliens will wish that they had stayed in their own countries as America doesn’t have a year round growing season assuming seeds to grow thiungs could be found.
Love will indeed grow cold!


135 posted on 08/03/2023 2:08:29 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Texas resident

I don’t think the powers that be can even reliably trust thier soldiers to perform against Americans as well.


136 posted on 08/03/2023 2:11:57 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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