The republic you are speaking about...if that the one trump tried to overthrow on January 6th?
False
You know, trump could have conceded defeat and walked away with dignity. He could have listened to his AG and his WH counsel and admitted he lost. He would now be an odds on favorite to be re-elected in 2024.
True. I wish that he had done that.
But he decided to call these "militia" groups to DC in an effort to stop the lawful certification of Joe Biden. He instigated and encouraged the attack on the US Capitol.
False.
The DOJ is going to go after many of those who gave him a plan to overturn the 2020 election. There will be indictments for Rudy, Eastman, Clark, Powell, and possibly many others that were involved in a conspiracy to overturn the election. Some in Congress may also be indicted who asked for pardons.
But the fact remains that trump was at the head of all the efforts to overturn the election. He is the one that should be indicted. Ford pardoned Nixon to keep him from being indicted for lying about the Watergate break-in. There is no one to pardon trump. The DOJ needs to do it's job and indict the trump co-conspirators.
Efforts to overturn an election are not criminal offenses. If they were, Al Gore would be just now appearing before his parole boards.
Both Gore and Trump looked for legal ways to overturn the election results.
There is strong evidence that Trump consulted with legal experts, political experts, political leaders, and congressional allies on how to legally, within the constitution, challenge the results of the election, as expressed by the states sending of electors.
There is no evidence, whatsoever, that Trump consulted with any militias, any groups planning violence, nor any other person responsible for the violence of January 6th.
His administration, though not Trump directly, consulted with the Capital police to offer protection from violence from the National Guard. It was refused. That was the absolute closes that Trump came to communicating with anyone responsible for the violence.
Trump did not tell Ashli Babbitt to break a window in the Capital, and he did not tell Lieutenant Michael Byrd of the Capital police to immediately shoot Babbitt in the head when she did. They made their choices. Babbitt paid the ultimate price for the misdemeanor of vandalism. Byrd suffered little consequences, other than his own conscience, which may well be punishing him more than the legal system could have.
Can anyone show Trump coordinating/colluding/consulting with the perpetrators of violence? How about second hand, i.e. Trump told someone to coordinate/collude/consult with a violent actor? Third hand? Fourth?
So far, you got nothing, but a second hand account of Trump "grabbing the wheel" (literally impossible), in an effort to go to the Capital. He had promised his supporters to go to the capital with them, after telling them to go "peacefully and patriotically." Sounds like he should have been there to help them stay peaceful.
You have little to hang your hats on, and shaky legs to stand on, my TDS afflicted friends.
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