Donald Trump was charged Tuesday in a Justice Department investigation into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States government and witness tampering.
The indictment, the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024, follows a long-running federal investigation into schemes by Trump and his allies to subvert the peaceful transfer of power and keep him in office despite a decisive loss to Joe Biden.
Even in a year of rapid-succession legal reckonings for Trump, Tuesday’s criminal case was especially stunning in its allegations that a former president assaulted the underpinnings of democracy in a frantic and ultimately failed effort to cling to power.
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They focus on the turbulent two months after the November 2020 election in which Trump refused to accept his loss and spread lies that victory was stolen from him. The turmoil resulted in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump loyalists violently broke into the building, attacked police officers and disrupted the congressional counting of electoral votes.
In between the election and the riot, Trump urged local election officials to undo voting results in their states, pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification of electoral votes and falsely claimed that the election had been stolen — a notion repeatedly rejected by judges.
Heh. Heh. Heh. He did it. We all know he did it. Even the loyal Trumpanzees know, deep down, that he did it.
The tragedy is that he and his co-conspirators won't get the penalty that they wanted to mete out during their coup. So, is it against the law to chant "Hang Donald Trump! Hang Donald Trump!"? And if so, why weren't any of the January 6th Coup Attempt crew charged for chanting "hang Mike Pence"?
Jon Jones said:
ReplyDelete“The big enchilada hits the table.”
But I accidentally deleted it.
Sorry about that, Jon.
No harm, no foul
ReplyDeleteTOFF'S in a TIFF! Four counts to bring him down and lock him up.
ReplyDeleteFor a long, long time.
As far as I can tell...
ReplyDeleteLock Him Up,
appears legal and proper even.
Eck!
One conclusion,
ReplyDeleteIf TOFF calls it fake, we have a verified fact!
Example TOFF called the indictment "fake".
Last I checked there is indeed an indictment so
if called fake that must mean indeed true as
in the fact it really did occur.
In the last bunch of years "fake" when uttered by some
sorts is not a indication of something being false
or fiction but their conformation that they don't
like that, as its true.
In the end fake and its brother woke are now meaningless
for discourse as they are misused, abused, and overused.
But they are still the essential elements of the far right
propaganda machine.
Eck!
I agree with all of the above except for the loyal trumpanzees know it part. Not only is he not guilty of anything, the libs are guilty of EVERYTHING!!! and sometime today the Preznident of my mind is going to order the arrest and execution of EVERY SINGLE LIBTARD From Joe right down to the mail lady that delivers my mail. I know she's a Lib, she looks like one. and another thing.......
ReplyDeleteIs this the charge that will finally make him ineligible to run for office? I had read there's one charge along this line, of interfering with the election, that if convicted would forbid him from ever running again. I so hope this is the big one. I am tired of his mewling and even his ugly mug. I look forward to him crying over being kicked out of the race itself.
ReplyDeleteThought himself above the law, only to be brought low by the thing he disdained.
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