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Sedition is defined as: 1. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority 2. conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
The events unfolding at this moment at the U.S. Capitol is another example of Republicans’ complete absence of ethics. The impeached president trump is not alone to blame for the violence happening in Washington D.C., his GOP enablers (the list is too long to cute here, but everyone knows all the names) are equally responsible.
In addition to his many other crimes while in office and campaigning for the presidency, will the impeached president trump’s inciting of the mob of RWNJs to sedition, which includes their violent, attempted take-over of the U.S. Capitol Building also be ignored by federal prosecutors after January 20, 2021?
The usual excuse given to ignore presidential crimes after the administration ends is, “The nation must look forward, not backward.”
So, the precedents set by ignoring Nixon’s Watergate crimes (associates: H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman, John Dean, John Mitchell, Charles Colson, and James McCord took the fall for Tricky Dick).
Plus, ignoring Reagan’s Iran/Contra crimes and cover-up (President Bush Sr. was advised by then Attorney General William P. Barr to pardon Reagan associates: Elliott Abrams, Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, and Robert McFarlane. Barr included Caspar Weinberger’s pardon before his trial, as a method to protect Bush Sr. from possible implication in the scandal due to evidence from testimony during Weinberger’s upcoming trial. So, no one involved, especially Reagan and Bush Sr., was hurt.)
The government’s inaction on these two instances has set the stage for trump to skate on every act of corruption during his four-year debacle.
But, for his January 6, 2020 incitement of his RWNJ cultists’ violence in Washington D.C., he should receive a stiffer penalty than a few paragraphs in history books, whitewashing his disastrous administration.
Like Nixon and Reagan, trump’s criminal act here was to insure his election (or reelection) to the presidency. As anyone except the RWNJs can see, Republicans have an infamous history of cheating to win presidential elections.
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https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/6c.html
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Sedition is defined as: 1. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority 2. conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
The events unfolding at this moment at the U.S. Capitol is another example of Republicans’ complete absence of ethics. The impeached president trump is not alone to blame for the violence happening in Washington D.C., his GOP enablers (the list is too long to cute here, but everyone knows all the names) are equally responsible.
In addition to his many other crimes while in office and campaigning for the presidency, will the impeached president trump’s inciting of the mob of RWNJs to sedition, which includes their violent, attempted take-over of the U.S. Capitol Building also be ignored by federal prosecutors after January 20, 2021?
The usual excuse given to ignore presidential crimes after the administration ends is, “The nation must look forward, not backward.”
So, the precedents set by ignoring Nixon’s Watergate crimes (associates: H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman, John Dean, John Mitchell, Charles Colson, and James McCord took the fall for Tricky Dick).
Plus, ignoring Reagan’s Iran/Contra crimes and cover-up (President Bush Sr. was advised by then Attorney General William P. Barr to pardon Reagan associates: Elliott Abrams, Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, and Robert McFarlane. Barr included Caspar Weinberger’s pardon before his trial, as a method to protect Bush Sr. from possible implication in the scandal due to evidence from testimony during Weinberger’s upcoming trial. So, no one involved, especially Reagan and Bush Sr., was hurt.)
The government’s inaction on these two instances has set the stage for trump to skate on every act of corruption during his four-year debacle.
But, for his January 6, 2020 incitement of his RWNJ cultists’ violence in Washington D.C., he should receive a stiffer penalty than a few paragraphs in history books, whitewashing his disastrous administration.
Like Nixon and Reagan, trump’s criminal act here was to insure his election (or reelection) to the presidency. As anyone except the RWNJs can see, Republicans have an infamous history of cheating to win presidential elections.
Definition of SEDITION
incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/6c.html
The Iran-Contra Affair | Miller Center
The Reagan administration's covert arms-for-hostages action necessitated the appointment of an independent counsel in 1986.
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