This Video Should Convict Trump And End The GOP
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Via: john-russell • 3 years ago • 19 commentsBy: Karoli Kuns (Crooks and Liars)
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Donald Trump incited this riot and his supporters carried out his orders. That is a fact, in spite of all the denials floating around Trumpworld and Republicans in denial. Anyone who doubts it as a fact should spend the 10 minutes to watch the video above, compiled by Just Security.
The video was compiled from videos scraped from Parler and other videos in the public record. It draws a clear line between Trump's speech, Trump's tweets before and after the rally, and their actions.
Those people believed -- rightly or wrongly -- that they were there because their 'president' told them to be there.
Just Security showed the video to former DOJ officials to get their opinion on whether he incited the insurrection. Paul Butler, a former official in DOJ's integrity section, wrote, "The video contains strong evidence that Trump did incite the insurrection, regardless of whether that was his intent." He does go on to say that it would be difficult to convict Trump in federal court, but the standard for impeachment is different.
"The circumstantial evidence, including Trump's bellicose words, his reported glee at the invasion of the Capitol, and his failure to immediately speak out against the violence, and his ultimate stunningly weak admonition to the insurrectionists to "go home" should persuade most Senators that he was either intentional or extremely reckless," Butler wrote.
"Trump will be remembered, if at all, as a would-be dictator, a narcissist beset by irrational grievances, tolerant, even encouraging of racism, and a threat to the rule of law and the will of a free people," Former Acting Attorney General Stuart Gerson wrote . "He appealed to the worst in us at a time when we critically need to call upon what is the best in us."
Across the board, all nine DOJ officials agreed that his behavior contributed to the insurrection, though in varying degrees.
It's hard for me to imagine anyone viewing that video who hasn't been poisoned by right wing media not seeing what Trump did as incitement. It clearly is, and this alone should be enough to convict him and bar him from running for office ever again.
However, I'm old enough to remember when Republicans enabled his anti-American mob behavior a year ago. Even as I write, they're whining that he shouldn't even be tried, much less convicted. And so this video goes out to all of them and their re-election bids, where they should be marginalized and pushed to the very margins of our body politic forever, along with Trump's miserable children too.
When it's all said and done, Trump and the GOP should be nothing but a memory. A bad one.
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The video basically shows the people who rioted responding to Trump's previous exhortations. Personally, I think the most damning evidence against Trump is his tweet which is near the end of the video.
He essentially says this ( the riot) is what happens when people have been mistreated (the election results) and that his people at the riot should "remember this day forever". Keep in mind, Trump tells his followers to "remember this day forever" after he has been watching (on television) them "storm" the capitol building for hours.
It is extremely hard to claim he did not approve of the riot.
Why would Trump approve of a riot, knowing it would result in bad publicity.
Once again, your logic is flawed, or perhaps non existent.
Agreed. Makes no sense, right?
So why would Trump claim, with woefully inadequate evidence, that the election was stolen? Why would he claim that he actually won and continue this demonstrably false, utterly nutty claim past all lawsuits, recounts, rechecks, certifications, counts and affirmations?
Did Trump actually think he could defraud the USA and steal an election? Did Trump think that this would be good publicity for himself?
Seriously, I would like to know why Trump would falsely claim that election fraud/error caused the wrong man to win? Is he stupid (i.e. did he somehow believe his own bullshit) or did he knowingly engage in a national con-job that was certain to fail and make him look the fool?
Trump engineered some pretty bad publicity for himself. Whatever he was thinking, it was wrong.
I think at first he thought the election was fraudulent. Then all the stupid lawsuits failed but by then his campaign was raking in donations so he didn't care. He was bitching all the way to the bank.
Possibly, but in the end he becomes (arguably) history's most foolish PotUS.
Donald Trump has wholly demonstrated that winning by any means necessary ("cut-throat businessman") is his standard operating model. Okay, at his best we might say Donald Trump is a "stone-cold" businessman. A man who takes no prisoners.
To that end, history will continue to RECORD Donald Trump threatening and intimidating sitting republicans who will not bow down to his personal control over their political careers.
I can't prove this, but I don't see why it is not highly probable. . . :
Donald Trump interview 1980 (Rona Barrett)
[Reelin' In The Years Archives]
Compare and add:
Has Donald Trump donated more to Democrats?
. . . Donald Trump may have private 'files' on each republican who has ever come through his business offices.
His ego will not allow him to recognize that.
Yeah, you can bet Donald Trump and his personal enablers are 'working over' the senate republicans behind the scenes. For example, this "process" argument/talking-point that has materialized is nothing more than a smoke-screen for sorry, weak, republicans to appease the 'reptilian' former president Donald Trump!
Trump republicans, every last one of them, are scared "little' men and women standing around the base of a over-SIZED Donald Trump! What is intolerable is this: these senators were sold out to excuses for Trump as the president—he still couldn't get the job done properly, and yet still these same sorry senators are sold out to the 'after-climax' Donald Trump! I guess this love for the man is real!
Why they seem to be afraid of the Michelin man I will never understand.
Back in my day, idiots like him would have been slapped down hard.
These republican senators are in awe of Trump's people-power. They fear and dread being swept away in a 2022 election cycle. They are not principled men and women (where and when it counts), and so they transform into
Jared's tie is crooked.
JR, like in the Arizonas and Georgias, 'reds,' you can bet skippy Donald, Rudy, Lindsay, and "Company" are all burning up the wire services by now getting the word around to republican senators to tow the line, "unify," and stay onboard with Trump 'talking points.'
We, real 'mericans don't get to do this kind of white collar manipulation of our world.
Keep your eyes open and a lively connection out there. (Chuckles.)
The reports of the death of the GOP are once again greatly exaggerated.
Please list a legitimate source for some imagined "far right convention planks" if you want anyone to even consider that seriously.
Barring that, it is just another cartoon.
Meh.
as you said, it's a cartoon. Have you seen any of the crazy right wing cartoons MAGA posts ?
Sorry, I was unaware that MAGA was the topic here.
He posts a lot, so perhaps you should give explicit examples.
Did you hear the fool in the video that said, "President Trump is here with us, at the Capitol Building."? Oh, brother. By the time that silly statement was made, Trump was back at the White House in his jammies, watching TV and waiting on Uber Eats to bring his evening supply of McSaddleBag enhancement.