DGS49
Diamond Member

The January 6 committee’s criminal referrals aren’t an empty gesture
Criminal referrals don’t carry any legal weight. The January 6 ones will still be significant.

(a). No rational American sees the activities of the J6 Committee as anything other than a partisan slander fest.
(2). President Trump had no illusions of CHANGING THE RESULTS of the election at his insistence.
(iii). Not even the most delusional of the J6 rioters believed that they could overturn the results of the election and install Trump as a dictator, like Fidel Castro. And yet, this is the essence of the prosecutions against them.
(D). As of January 6, 2021, Trump and his partisans were CONVINCED that at least three states' election results had been produced by some combination of fraud, illegal vote harvesting, illegitimate rule changes (e.g., in Pennsylvania), and counting shenanigans. But none of the factual allegations was being investigated or even considered, as one court after another was shutting down the various cases on procedural grounds. Clearly, no court wanted any part of a Bush v Gore re-run.
5. The purpose of the riots was to STOP the certification of the results of the election pending a full investigation of the cornucopia of "irregularities" that characterized that election.
(vi). Had the election gone the other way, everything else being equal, the riots would have been even more violent, and would have taken place in many venues around the country.
G. It would be NICE to see those ass-holes in the Justice Department try Donald Trump on these charges, with competent defense counsel. Trump's lawyers would shove this crap right up their asses.