The indictment against former President Donald Trump for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results is the most important case in U.S. history, according to the author. The indictment alleges that Trump conspired to make false claims of election fraud and used those claims in an attempt to steal the election through pressuring state officials and interfering with Congress’ certification of the electoral votes. If convicted, it would deter future would-be authoritarians from attempting to subvert elections. However, Trump may argue that he honestly believed the election was stolen, and assert First Amendment defenses. Still, the risks of not prosecuting Trump for undermining democracy are greater than the risks of prosecution. The outcome of this case will greatly influence whether the U.S. remains a democracy after 2024.
He thinks that running for President gives him privilege to avoid answering for his crimes. We have one set of laws for ALL Americans. It’s time to pay the price scumbag. Prison soon.
Running for president doesn’t give him privilege to avoid answering for his crimes, but WINNING most definitely does.
This reminds me of a scene in the book Shogun where Blackthorne is asked something like “how could you possibly be excused for rebellion?”
“If you win”
I don’t want Trump to win! But he could probably weasel out of this mess by becoming president
Considering a US president has never before actively encouraged, and may have spear-headed, an open revolt!? Yes, I would say it probably will be the most important case in US history.
He can claim he believes it all he wants. The indictment isn’t just for what he said, it’s for what he DID. No matter your beliefs you can’t bully a secretary of state to try to get more votes, you can’t conspire to have a bunch of fake electors, you can’t order the Vice President to overrule the will of the voters.
“The indictment includes charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S., conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding and violating a post-Civil War Reconstruction Era civil rights statute that makes it a crime to conspire to violate rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution — in this case, the right to vote.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc
There is nothing in those charges about what he said. For those at least, he can’t hide behind the first amendment.
I’m more worried there’s going to be one fucking dumbass on the jury who derails the whole thing into a mistrial, Trump wins the election, and pardons himself or pulls some other shenanigans to weasel out.
Thanks for re-directing back to the real issue. Fox News and Republicans in general want to make this seem like a free speech issue, and it’s going to work if people don’t know what the actual details of the case are.
Yup. It literally says in the indictment (PDF) that Trump, like anyone else, has freedom of speech.
The Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely,that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election andthat he had won . He was also entitled to formally challenge the results ofthe election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures. Indeed, in many cases, the Defendant did pursue these methods of contesting the election results. His efforts to change the outcome in any state through recounts , audits,or legal challenges were uniformly unsuccessful.
But of course, FNC and their ilk won’t pay attention to that. They won’t even read the indictment.
Not only the US… Internationally, the bigotry and BS is spilling over. Here in Australia, we’re still highly divided because of absolute BS like his COVID nonsense. I’m coming across people talking about “wokeness” even here in Australia now (wankers of course).
This needs to end…
In fact, the fact he stepped into a public meeting the day after he lost the case against Jean Carroll and basically called her a slut (apparently after not knowing who she was), after not attending the trial, should be more than enough evidence that he’s a bad person. In fact a few youtubers even called him out prematurely that he’d claim the judge was corrupt and blocked him from attending the trial, etc (and he did exactly that, which is why the Judge had obviously offered to give him a short delay to attend).
And I literally saw 5 mins of Fox news months before the insurrection, and it was obvious to me when he started saying the election is rigged that he was already setting things up to overthrow it.
To be clear, I’m a straight white male. So absolutely nobody could claim I’m sexist against him. He’s just a manipulative S.O.B. He should go to prison, and take the rest of his toxic alpha wannabees with him. I’m so sick of them causing problems even here
Indictments are one thing. Convictions are another, and punishments are yet another. Wake me up when something actually happens.
