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Within hours of being sworn in, convicted felon Donald Trump committed his first blatantly impeachable act. Trump made good on one of his vilest campaign promises, pardoning and commuting the sentences of those convicted of even the most violent of crimes during his Jan. 6, 2021 coup attempt.
Trump did not bother with detail. He freed even those who viciously beat police officers with bats, metal poles, stun guns, and other weapons. He freed those who smuggled guns to the Capitol. He freed the militia members who coordinated to orchestrate crowd actions and to hunt down the fleeing House and Senate members, resulting in battles between security details and the mob inside the Capitol and in the tunnels used to evacuate lawmakers. He freed those who had been convicted explicitly of seditious conspiracy—a planned attempt to overthrow the government of the United States by force.
And he simultaneously gave the Department of Justice his first order, one that in any past modern administration would on its own been a scandal and crime above all others: They must drop all ongoing investigations and indictments of anyone else who did violence inside the Capitol on that day.
The order was plain, its purpose crystal-clear. Under The Criminal's regime, the government is not allowed to investigate his allies. They are not allowed to prosecute those who do crimes that Donald favors; they are not allowed to try.
And that is because Donald Trump is a criminal who orchestrated a violent insurrection rather than allow his monumental ego to be dented by the same election loss that every other political figure experiences as a matter of course. He is a seditionist. He is a traitor to his country, to democracy, and to the rule of law.
And he remains so, whether a coordinated effort by media companies and billionaires to memory-hole his indictments, convictions, and laundry list of crimes returns him to power or not.
And it's just day two. The felon elect probably won't finish his term.
Trump did not bother with detail. He freed even those who viciously beat police officers with bats, metal poles, stun guns, and other weapons. He freed those who smuggled guns to the Capitol. He freed the militia members who coordinated to orchestrate crowd actions and to hunt down the fleeing House and Senate members, resulting in battles between security details and the mob inside the Capitol and in the tunnels used to evacuate lawmakers. He freed those who had been convicted explicitly of seditious conspiracy—a planned attempt to overthrow the government of the United States by force.
And he simultaneously gave the Department of Justice his first order, one that in any past modern administration would on its own been a scandal and crime above all others: They must drop all ongoing investigations and indictments of anyone else who did violence inside the Capitol on that day.
The order was plain, its purpose crystal-clear. Under The Criminal's regime, the government is not allowed to investigate his allies. They are not allowed to prosecute those who do crimes that Donald favors; they are not allowed to try.
And that is because Donald Trump is a criminal who orchestrated a violent insurrection rather than allow his monumental ego to be dented by the same election loss that every other political figure experiences as a matter of course. He is a seditionist. He is a traitor to his country, to democracy, and to the rule of law.
And he remains so, whether a coordinated effort by media companies and billionaires to memory-hole his indictments, convictions, and laundry list of crimes returns him to power or not.
The Criminal commits his (first) impeachable act
Originally posted at The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places. Within hours of being sworn in, convicted felon Donald Trump committed his first blatantly impeachable act. Trump made good on one of his vilest campaign promises, pardoning and commuting the...
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And it's just day two. The felon elect probably won't finish his term.
