Posted on 01/08/2021 8:04:51 AM PST by Red Badger
The U.S. Department of Justice did not rule out the possibility yesterday of criminally charging President Donald Trump for allegedly inciting a riot in the nation’s capital this week.
“We are looking at all actors, not only the people who went into the building,” Michael Sherwin, the U.S. attorney in Washington, said on Thursday.
The New York Times reported that Sherwin was also asked whether targets in the investigation would include the president.
“We are looking at all actors here,” Sherwin said. “Was there a command and control? Were there others that maybe assisted or facilitated or obviously played some ancillary role in this? Anyone that had a role, and the evidence fits the elements of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”
Sherwin later added that the DOJ “will bring the maximum charges we can based upon the conduct.”
“Sherwin also said no charges are off the table,” USA Today reported. “Charges such as seditious conspiracy, rioting and insurrection will be considered if warranted. Last year, following weeks of unrest in several cities after the death of George Floyd, Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen wrote a memo telling federal prosecutors to consider a sedition charge against protesters who conspired to ‘take a federal courthouse or other federal property by force.'”
The Times noted that the DOJ typically protects sitting presidents by asserting that they cannot be criminally charged, but that protection will end for Trump in less than two weeks.
Trump held a rally with supporters on January 6 as Congress was in the process of certifying the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden. After the rally was over, thousands of those who attended the rally stormed the U.S. Capitol Building, causing property damage and attacking law enforcement officers. At least five people died amid or as a result of the riot, including one Trump supporter who was shot as she was trying to breach a sealed off area and a police officer who was smashed in the head with a fire extinguisher.
Following Sherwin’s remarks yesterday, Trump released a video on Twitter after being suspended from the platform for 12 hours. In the video, Trump acknowledged that the election was over, that there would be a new administration in a couple of weeks, and that there needed to be a peaceful transition of power. Trump also did not push his previously unsubstantiated claims about widespread voter fraud being the reason that he lost the election.
“I’d like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol,” Trump began. “Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. I immediately deployed the national guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is and must always be a nation of law and order. The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country, and to those who broke the law, you will pay.”
“We have just been through an intense election, and emotions are high,” he said. “But now tempers must be cooled and calm restored. We must get on with the business of America. My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results. My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. In so doing, I was fighting to defend American democracy. I continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters and to ensure faith and confidence in all future elections. Now, Congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20; my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.”
“2020 has been a challenging time for our people,” he concluded. “A menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens, isolated millions in their homes, damaged our economy, and claimed countless lives. Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together. It will require a renewed emphasis on the civic values of patriotism, faith, charity, community, and family. We must revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family. To the citizens of our country, serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime, and to all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.”
He is going to have to pardon himself or something. I dont know if that will hold up but they’re definitely going to go after him
IMO, once investigators identify someone as Antifa, their charges will never materialize.
Then they just do the same for Pelosi who took up black face and knelt in the capital to encourage BLM which caused uncounted destruction in DC which is confined and abetted by the Democrat party.
You guys are really playing with fire here and you won’t like the outcome.
They will go after Trump with the ferocity of a wounded lion. It does not matter what the issue is, they will invent all they need. In their little demonic minds, he must be destroyed.
How long til Thomas and Alito retire?
“They already know who was behind the Capitol ‘riot’.....................”
And there is probably a “good reason” they are not disclosing the information at the moment. Media and gubmint got the info out about the Nashville sicko bomber in less than 24 hours, yet here we stand in ignorance....
Hopefully the hang in there now, even if they end up on the minority opinion side. Had Trump a second term in 2021, I would guess they would have retired. Not so sure now. It is important that their opinions be enshrined for all time, and a future generation might be able to re-discover and re-establish America.
“IMO, once investigators identify someone as Antifa, their charges will never materialize.”
President Trump and the person who could appoint to replace Bill Barr can make sure that all Antifa that entered the Capitol be arrested. There are pictures of all of them and they can all be identified.
That’s when the stunt will stop looking
Where is Hunter?
Seriously? If they think they had a “riot” on their hands Wednesday, they ain’t see nothing yet if they try to arrest the President
Unlike RBG they WANT to retire. They won’t hang on forever like her. Besides Biden will stack the court.
“Was there a command and control? Were there others that maybe assisted or facilitated or obviously played some ancillary role in this? Anyone that had a role, and the evidence fits the elements of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”
IF ONLY the DOJ was that interested in getting answers to those same questions about what happened on November 3.
Kamala Harris
The interview took place in June on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Would like to have a link to that interview
Didn’t Kamala Harris cheer on rioters?
So, who is actually going to start using arms against the liberals? Posters on the FR?
Yes, when they are HER rioters...................
As planned. The left knows that both Biden and Cumallah, Biden with his corruption, pathologic lying, and dementia, Cumallah with her no-filter radicalism, will continue to energize the deplorables and turn the blue-collars and minorities. They must destroy him by 2024. I’m hoping that if they succeed that DeSantis can fly under the radar enough to be viable. He needs to prepare for the coming scrutiny and anticipate potential attack focal points that will need to be defended. So far he has adopted Trump’s “best defense is a good offense” and has been studying the president’s unabashed calling out and striking back of the enemedia.
Well, then that’s o.k., right?
What I don’t get is why there is this wide spread acceptance that we have to behave as if the Capitol is sacred space. It’s not. Further more we do not have the “Divine rights of Kings” as our means of accepting who governs us. If you consider the level of justifiable anger voters have over the negative impact the years of decisions made by Congress have on their lives this has been a long time coming. And unlike all those small businesses destroyed over the summer Congress will have no trouble simply going on with business as usual.
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