Posted on 05/04/2023 9:02:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election.
A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV.
Tarrio was also convicted of obstructing Congress' certification of President Joe Biden's electoral victory and obstructing law enforcement as well as two other conspiracy charges. He was cleared of an assault charge stemming from a co-defendant who stole an officer's riot shield.
It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Biden out of the White House at all costs. The charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
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Did a Pelosi staffer write this story? Dude should have gone the Ray Epps way, didn’t, and now is a data spot.
Banana Republic indeed.
It’s worth remembering that Trump had an additional 2 weeks in which he could have protected all nonviolent protestors with a blanket pardon but was backed down by McConnell under threat of impeachment conviction. One of the many heresies about Trump that are not to be uttered around here.
Oh, how could the guy who was impeached over the BS Zelenskyy phone call know that his supporters would face soviet style show trials for protesting their sham election? Surely, they would get fair trials in a DC courtroom.
October 1, 1995: Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Tarrio did not even enter, or come near the Capitol on Jan 6. This is an utter disgrace.
A DC jury would convict a corpse of “seditious conspiracy” IMHO.
Didn’t it come out well before Jan 6 that he was working for the FBI?
Hindsight is 20/20.
Who could have imagined this outcome back then?
This is for damn sure: we’d better not make that mistake again. It’s clear to see now: Jack Smith will indict and convict Trump with his robot jury.
Then it’s open season on us.
We need to prepare to ‘go underground’ before they throw us off the web.
What I mean is peer to peer. Can anyone here instruct us how to do this? Right now it’s beyond me. But clearly it will become necessary
Until they didn’t want him any more.......................
No he did not have an additional two weeks. He was not allowed to pardon who he wanted or anything like that. Essentially it was a still 24th amendment process. Pelosi and Milly and pence took power. Most of his cabinet immediately resigned. Millie told military leaders not to execute any order he gave without checking with him. Trump was told that if he stayed quiet for two weeks he would be allowed to depart. If he did not play ball his children would be arrested, and he would be impeached and removed from office by the end of the day in disgrace, and probably also arrested. He was no longer giving orders. The government was overthrown on January 6 and 7. Nobody was taking orders from him anymore. He was allowed a few pro forma pardons, and that’s it. It’s silly to pretend Trump is actually in power as president anymore. He literally did not control anything beyond the control of his voice, not DOJ, not the military, not nuclear weapons, nothing.
How about going after BLM and Antifa for torching a dozen cities across the US? Seems only fair after the bogus Jan 6 legal farce.
This is pretty accurate.
“Didn’t it come out well before Jan 6 that he was working for the FBI?”
My memory is that’s correct.
And the reason for that leaving Trump in office tactic, was to present the image that Biden was sworn in normally, and that the government had not been overthrown. That was very important to them. But all of the other essential elements of a coup were there. Including quite literally seizing the radio station so to speak. Trump was denied the ability to give a national address on all the TV stations. He was banned from any social media you can think of. And two divisions of soldiers flooded into DC. It was a coup, and he had no power by January 7. I suppose some wouldn’t be happy unless he was shot dead and dragged out of the White House by his heels after resisting. If he did not abide by the terms the coup leaders pushed on him, the impeachment resolution would’ve been voted in the morning, it would’ve gone to a direct vote in the Senate, and he would’ve been removed the same day.
Despite those who believe Trump was captain at the helm, in truth he never had more than about 30% of the power a president normally possesses. Orders were ignored, slow walk, or simply contravened by the hostel bureaucracy that infested his white house with spies. He did the best he could.
bkmk - poor quality of legal representation
bkmk - government abuse and excess
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The last people convicted of seditious conspiracy were members of the Oath Keepers in 2022 and 2023.
<>Then it’s open season on us.<>
Our masters are just warming up.
After they steal 2024, expect a nationwide clampdown on Trumpsters, Catholics, parents . . . all registered Republicans.
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