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"Nervous, Bro 45?" previous guy goes "wild" [1]
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Date: 2022-07-12
When bad stuff happens for him, Trump goes on a posting spree, this time, he’s trying to spin attention from the J6 Select Committee. This is the truth of Trump’s Derangement Syndrome, only suggesting a more viable chance for a Trump indictment, and his stepping aside for that DeSantis/Cheney 2024 ticket. Everything else is a grift, because who doesn’t want to give this guy money for this rant:
“Isn’t it INCREDIBLE that the people who Cheated, Rigged, and Stole the 2020 Presidential Election, for which there is massive and incontestable evidence and proof… are totally protected from harm,” he wrote. “And the people that caught them cheating are being investigated. Someday soon this will change, or we won’t have a Country anymore!”
Tuesday’s hearing will be led by Reps. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) and Murphy and feature opening statements from Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), its vice chairwoman.
Witnesses are expected to include Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as national spokesman for the Oath Keepers and as a close aide to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes; and Stephen Ayres, a rioter who illegally entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
During the hearing, which starts at 1 p.m. Eastern time, committee members are expected to focus heavily on a Dec. 19, 2020, tweet in which Trump advertised on Twitter a “wild” protest on Jan. 6. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), one of the panel members leading Tuesday’s hearing, has said the tweet served as a “siren call” for members of violent extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is poised to hold its seventh hearing of the summer, this one probing how President Donald Trump and his allies summoned far-right militant groups to Washington ahead of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
On Sunday, a member of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack said that the Department of Justice should consider investigating — and possibly indicting — former President Donald Trump and his allies in the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) said on ABC’s “This Week” program that, while the Justice Department has been looking into some of Trump’s actions, “there are certain actions, parts of these different lines of effort to overturn the [2020] election, that I don’t see evidence the Justice Department is investigating.”
The department needs to “make a decision about whether it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt the president’s guilt or anyone else’s,” Schiff added. “But they need to be investigated if there’s credible evidence, which I think there is.”
Trump’s efforts to overturn the election began before Election Day, Schiff noted.
“The evidence is very powerful that Donald Trump began telling this ‘big lie’ before the election … that lie continued after the election and ultimately led to this mob assembling and attacking the Capitol,” he said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland hasn’t yet indicated how he will act once the committee’s findings are presented in full. The committee itself doesn’t have the power to charge an individual with crimes. Although it does have the ability to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department, some committee members have suggested they will not do so.
One possible law that Trump could be charged with violating is 18 U.S. Code sec. 2384, which deals with seditious conspiracy. According to that statute, it is illegal “to oppose by force the authority [of the government],” and “by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.”
Trump’s incitement of a mob of his loyalists on the morning of January 6, 2021 — and his refusal to act until several hours after his followers attacked the U.S. Capitol building — could arguably fit within the parameters of that law.
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