Every Senator Voting to Support Trump will Signify Their Collusion in Conspiracy
History will Remind Them of Their Enablement Until the Day They Die
Many of them (Graham, Rubio, Cruz, Hawley et al) have been vocal about their incitement of subversion of the Election & their slavish support for a con-man & his kingdom of corruption.
And anyone who knows anything about "security" in the nation's Capitol knows this attack on the Electoral vote process in Congress took months of planning, a stand-down order & coordination from the Oval Office.
Allegedly, Trump watched the whole thing while squirming in pleasure, not attempting to stop the violent attack on the heart of American democracy for hours, only after many Congress people (& Mike Pence!) barely escaped being assaulted or murdered.
Crimes The Capitol Rioters Committed ♨ ⛈
18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
§2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, §1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
§2385. Advocating overthrow of Government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms "organizes" and "organize", with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
American public to Congress: Convict Trump. America is watching. The world is watching.
13 federal criminal laws that the pro-Trump mob may have violated, explained
Storming the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government is a serious crime.
A Civilian's Guide to Insurrection Legalese
Everyone's talking about sedition, treason and conspiracy. Here's what these terms actually mean and how they've been enforced.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/01/08/a-civilian-s-guide-to-insurrection-legalese
Federal Incitement Crimes
Below are federal statutes that punish acts relating to inciting riots, violence, crimes, or insurrection. Both federal and state laws (listed in the next section) are subject to the First Amendment principles outlined above.
Federal Anti-Riot Act
In response to times of civil unrest in the 1960s, Congress enacted the Federal Anti-Riot Act. This law makes it a five-year felony to travel between states or use a type of interstate commerce (such as mail, phone, wireless communications, or broadcast), intending to: incite a riot participate in or carry on a riot, or commit an act of violence in furtherance of a riot.
A riot means a public disturbance involving three or more persons whose actions or threats represent an immediate danger to persons or property. (18 U.S.C. §§ 2101, 2102 (2020).)
Inciting Insurrection or Rebellion Against the U.S. Government
Federal law also prohibits inciting, assisting, or engaging in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority, laws, or operations of the U.S. Government. To convict, the prosecutor must show the defendant knowingly committed an overt act to further insurrection. A conviction carries up to 10 years in federal prison. (18 U.S.C. § 2383 (2020); Yates v. U.S., 354 U.S. 298 (1957).)
State Incitement Crimes
Below are examples of state statutes prohibiting incitement to riot, violence, and insurrection. Penalties vary widely from months of jail time to years in prison. (This section also includes the District of Columbia Code.)
California. California makes it a misdemeanor to engage in conduct that urges others to riot, commit acts of force or violence, or commit acts of burning or destroying property. The person must intend that the conduct causes such conduct. A person convicted of incitement to riot faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. (Cal. Penal Code § 404.6 (2020).)
District of Columbia. Willfully inciting or urging others to engage in a riot results in up to a six-month jail sentence. The penalty bumps up to a 10-year prison sentence if the riot results in serious bodily harm to a victim or more than $5,000 in property damage. (D.C. Code § 22-1322 (2020).)
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/inciting-to-riot-violence-or-insurrection.html
Rebellion or Insurrection
By FindLaw Staff | Reviewed by Maddy Teka, Esq. | Last updated January 08, 2021
Despite our nation's refusal to be ruled, the government that arose from the Revolutionary War has passed laws prohibiting rebellion or insurrection. Although the law is rarely invoked, it carries serious penalties. The following article provides an overview of the federal crime of rebellion and insurrection and how it differs from sedition and treason.
Rebellion and Insurrection, Sedition, and Treason
The prohibition on rebellion and insurrection arises in a brief passage found in 18 U.S.C. Section 2383. The law prohibits the incitement, assistance, and participation in a rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States and its laws. The punishment for this crime is a fine, a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, and ineligibility for public office.
Rebellion and insurrection refer specifically to acts of violence against the state or its officers. This distinguishes the crime from sedition, which is the organized incitement to rebellion or civil disorder against the authority of the state. It also separates the crime from treason, which is the violation of allegiance owed to one's country by betrayal or acting to aid the country's enemies.
The crimes are easily confused, but if the party wasn't acting on behalf of (or giving aid to) a foreign government they are unlikely to be charged with treason. Calls to rise up against the authority of the government by staging non-violent protests and strikes might be characterized as sedition (if they violated laws relating to these acts), but wouldn't be considered rebellion or insurrection unless the incitement included calls for violent acts such as the destruction of government property or the assault of officers of the state.
https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/rebellion-or-insurrection.html
Trump And His Supporters’ Insurrection Is A Crime, Not A Political Debate
How to escape "normal" metrics when reporting on the seditious terrorist attack Jan 6 by Trump & cohorts
A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump
The Democrats’ special impeachment counsel on the House Judiciary Committee lays out President Trump’s shocking pattern of betrayals, lies, and high crimes, arguing articles of impeachment to the ultimate judges: the American people.
In his behind-the-scenes account of the attempts to bring the president to justice - from filing the very first legal actions against him, through the Mueller report, to the turbulent impeachment and trial, to the president’s ongoing wrongdoing today - Norman Eisen, at the forefront of the battle since the day of Trump’s inauguration, pulls back the curtain on the process. He reveals 10 proposed articles of impeachment, not just the two that were publicly tried, all of which he had a hand in drafting. He then guides us through Trump’s lifelong instincts that have dictated his presidency: a cycle of abuse, corruption, and relentless obstruction of the truth.
Since taking the oath of office, Donald Trump has been on a spree of high crimes and misdemeanors, using the awesome power of the presidency for his own personal gain, at the expense of the American people. He has inflamed our divisions for his electoral benefit, with flagrant disregard for the Constitution that makes us America. Each step of the way, he has lied incessantly, including to cover up his crimes. And yet he remains in the country’s highest office.
Congress, federal and state prosecutors, and courts have worked to hold the president accountable for his myriad offenses - with some surprising successes and devastating failures. Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for Trump’s impeachment and trial, presents the case against Trump anew. Eisen’s gripping narrative and rousing closing argument - at turns revelatory, insightful, and enraging - will inspire our nation of judges.
History has proven that this president’s nefarious behavior will continue, no matter the crisis. But, as Eisen’s candid retelling affirms, there is an ultimate constitutional power that transcends the president’s, a power that can and must defeat him if our nation is to survive.
The verdict of the American people remains in the balance. It is time for us to act.
https://smile.amazon.com/Case-American-People-United-States/dp/B08BG6Y1NR/
Incitement: Is the President Guilty of Inciting the Riot?
“Just Remember: Roy Cohn Taught Him His ABCs”
A Mafia expert explains why Trump feels so much like a mobster.
By REBECCA ONION
Selwyn Raab: It’s important to remember that Trump learned his ABCs for success from Roy Cohn, who was mixed up in the Mafia, defended them, and mentored Trump exactly how to succeed in life. “Always be aggressive, take no prisoners …”
Trump resembles John Gotti. Most mob bosses were quiet, stayed in the shadows, didn’t want any kind of publicity or exposure. All Gotti wanted was the spotlight, all the time. That bolstered his ego, made him feel important.
There’s another example of their similar personalities. Gotti, at the slightest slight, if anybody had offended him or spoken one bad word, they were finished, terminated. No prisoners …Trump doesn’t kill anybody! But what he does is he casts you out of his environment.
Rebecca Onion: Have you read the notes from the Zelensky call? What do you think of it? There’s a degree of clumsy subtlety to it, a level of insinuation, that people have noticed and compared to mobspeak.
The subtlety is like … “Do me a favor.” Gotti would never say, “Hit that guy.” He’d just say, “Do me a favor, get rid of that stone in my shoe.” He would just say, “He’s a problem.” You never caught Gotti saying, “Let’s do a hit job on him,” but the understanding is clear to their acolytes. They know what the code words mean.
I know that some Trump supporters hearing the Mafia comparison might say, “No, no, that’s just business. That’s the way that people who are handling a lot of money might talk.”
The Mafia has always been a mirror image of capitalism. They succeed through monopolies, domineering. They want to win, all the time, and they don’t accept losses. And it’s all at a cost to somebody else. But again, that’s a Roy Cohn characteristic, you never admit defeat, you always attack. And that’s why the Mafia succeeded so long. They just copied what succeeds. They want monopolies, they want domineering, they don’t want any questions. Whoever’s in charge is an absolute ruler.
No accountability.
No, you can’t question them! It’s a God-given gift. OK, Trump had to be elected; you don’t have a popular vote to become a boss. There is a distinction, and I don’t want to say he’s a Mafioso in that sense. It’s the flamboyance, this utter quest for attention constantly. The Twittering is an example, he has to have his views out all the time. That’s like Gotti, he craved the spotlight. Trump has been in the spotlight a long time.
I brought up the question about romanticization because I almost wonder whether, for some Americans, “mob speak” may not be a bad thing. I think some people may think the mob is sexy, or fun.
No, listen, the Mafia was ruthless. It was an invisible empire. They hurt a lot of people without anybody knowing it. Higher costs for goods, for clothes, for rental apartments, for construction work. They did enormous damage. Frankly, we’re fortunate, unlike in Italy where they really became part of the real government—here, they made attempts. They were ruthless if you were an honest union worker or you wanted to really do something in construction that would be beneficial. They ran the trucking industry. They were an excessive cost. People didn’t know it. It’s almost like the tariffs—Trump claims tariffs are a victory, but it’s the consumers who are eventually going to pay for it, or the companies. No free lunch!
Remember, the Mafia has always been a mirror image. Whatever succeeded in capitalism, they tried to do, but they did it underhandedly. They liked monopolies, pushing people around, threats; “we’ll break your kneecap if you don’t cooperate,” or “we’ll do something to your relatives.” It’s absolute punishment. And look how Trump treats anybody [who turns against him], like his lawyer [Michael] Cohen. They go into Coventry! They’re total enemies. He doesn’t remember anything they did for him. Loyalty, again that word loyalty. It’s a supreme example of favoritism.
Just remember, Roy Cohn. He taught him his ABCs. He was a mentor. Trump was proud of it! Remember that line about, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”
The government works for him; he doesn’t work for the government.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/trump-mafia-behavior-analogy-ukraine-transcript.html
Donny Deutsch: Donald Trump Is Nothing More Than The ‘Chief Crime Boss’ | Deadline | MSNBC
The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.
In Mr. Trump’s campaign against what he calls “Fake News”, CNN Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, is public enemy number one. From the moment Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he has attacked the media, calling journalists “the enemy of the people”.
Acosta presents a damning examination of bureaucratic dysfunction, deception, and the unprecedented threat the rhetoric Mr. Trump is directing has on our democracy. When the leader of the free world incites hate and violence, Acosta doesn’t back down, and he urges his fellow citizens to do the same.
https://smile.amazon.com/Enemy-People-Dangerous-Truth-America/dp/0062916122/
Madeleine: Trump Is ‘Guilty Of The Worst And Highest Crimes & Misdemeanors’ | The Last Word | MSNBC
House impeachment manager Rep. Madeleine Dean joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss how they will make the case to the jury of senators who were “witnesses and victims to the crimes” that Trump incited an insurrection, including how Trump’s “series of lies radicalized” his supporters to attack the Capitol: “He lit the match… and sadly he played on these people’s fears and ignorance.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KJznBlSso&list=PLfRHLmFaPjT0lB_X5cF4ij5icpywb6qvg
Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies
by The Washington Post
In perilous times, facts, expertise, and truth are indispensable. President Trump's flagrant disregard for the truth and his self-aggrandizing exaggerations, specious misstatements, and bald-faced lies have been rigorously documented and debunked since the first day of his presidency by The Washington Post's Fact Checker staff.
Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth is based on the only comprehensive compilation and analysis of the more than 16,000 fallacious statements that Trump has uttered since the day of his inauguration. He has repeated many of his most outrageous claims dozens or even hundreds of times as he has sought to bend reality to his political fantasy and personal whim.
https://smile.amazon.com/Donald-Trump-His-Assault-Truth/dp/1982151072/
While other leaders were marshaling resources to combat the greatest pandemic in modern history, President Donald Trump was watching TV. Trump watches more than six hours of Fox News a day, a habit his staff refers to as "executive time".
In January 2020, when Fox News began to downplay COVID-19, the president was quick to agree. In March, as the deadly virus spiraled out of control, Sean Hannity mocked "coronavirus hysteria" as a "new hoax" from the left. Millions of Americans took Hannity and Trump's words as truth - until some of them started to get sick.
In Hoax, CNN anchor and chief media correspondent Brian Stelter tells the twisted story of the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News. From the moment Trump glided down the golden escalator to announce his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election to his acquittal on two articles of impeachment in early 2020, Fox hosts spread his lies and smeared his enemies. Over the course of two years, Stelter spoke with more than 250 current and former Fox insiders in an effort to understand the inner workings of Rupert Murdoch's multibillion-dollar media empire. Some of the confessions are alarming. "We don't really believe all this stuff," a producer says. "We just tell other people to believe it."
At the center of the story lies Sean Hannity, a college dropout who, following the death of Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, reigns supreme at the network that pays him $30 million a year. Stelter describes the raging tensions inside Fox between the Trump loyalists and the few remaining journalists. He reveals why former chief news anchor Shep Smith resigned in disgust in 2019; why a former anchor said, "If I stay here I’ll get cancer"; and how Trump has exploited the leadership vacuum at the top to effectively seize control of the network.
Including never before reported details, Hoax exposes the media personalities who, though morally bankrupt, profit outrageously by promoting the president’s propaganda and radicalizing the American right. It is a book for anyone who reads the news and wonders: How did this happen?
https://smile.amazon.com/Hoax-Donald-Trump-Dangerous-Distortion/dp/1982142456/
Trump Crime Family
The ‘Trump Crime Family has violated thousands of laws (Federal and State), engaged in documented domestic and international corruption, and utterly destroyed every ethical principle turning the White House which was once the people’s house into the money laundering Trump #RICO house.
Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.
The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office.
Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried.
This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trump’s lawyer and “fixer”, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trump’s business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration.
This is a story that you have not read in newspapers, or on social media, or watched on television. These are accounts that only someone who worked for Trump around the clock for over a decade - not a few months or even a couple of years - could know. Cohen describes Trump’s racist rants against President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Black and Hispanic people in general, as well as the cruelty, humiliation, and abuse he leveled at family and staff. Whether he’s exposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or electronic fraud by rigging an online survey, or outing Trump’s Neanderthal views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches.
He shows Trump’s relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul - a man who courts evangelicals and then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off small business owners, a con man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country.
At the heart of Disloyal, we see how Cohen came under the spell of his charismatic "Boss" and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass.
The real "real" Donald Trump who permeates this book - the racist, sexist, homophobic, lying, cheating president - will be discussed, written about, and analyzed for years to come.
More recently, Cohen indicated to NBC's Lester Holt that Trump will do anything, including rigging the 2020 election and even having the USA go to war, to help win reelection. Only by winning reelection can Trump even hope to head off some of the likely criminal prosecutions that he and his many Republican aiders and abettors are already at significant risk of.
Cohen's numerous and colorful descriptions of Trump's nonstop political, business and personal misbehavior just confirm the recently reported assessments of Trump's older sister, longtime Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, and his niece, psychologist, Dr. Mary Trump.
Their reported assessment is that Trump is, and at least as an adult always has been, in effect, an unprincipled, cruel, unfeeling and unreformable liar and con man obsessed with winning power and making money --- no matter who gets hurt.
https://smile.amazon.com/Disloyal-Memoir-Personal-Attorney-President/dp/1510764690/
Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. TrumpINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agents in the United States to lay bare the threat posed by President Trump.
“Peter Strzok is the FBI agent who started it all.”—David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning
When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia’s election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander in chief had fallen under the sway of America’s adversary in the Kremlin.
In Compromised, Strzok draws on lessons from a long career—from his role in the Russian illegals case that inspired The Americans to his service as lead FBI agent on the Mueller investigation—to construct a devastating account of foreign influence at the highest levels of our government. And he grapples with a question that should concern every U.S. citizen: When a president appears to favor personal and Russian interests over those of our nation, has he become a national security threat?
https://smile.amazon.com/Compromised-Counterintelligence-Threat-Donald-Trump-ebook/dp/B084ZF5D65/
Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump
Political historian and commentator David Rothkopf shows how Trump will be judged by history (Spoiler alert: not well) in Traitor.
Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the US has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country.
Regardless of how Senate Republicans have let him off the hook, the facts available to the public show that Trump has met every necessary standard to define his behavior as traitorous. He has clearly broken faith with the people of the country he was chosen to lead, starting long before he took office, then throughout his time in the White House. And we may not yet have seen the last of his crimes. But the story we know so far is so outrageous and disturbing that it raises a question that has never before been presented in American history: Is the president of the United States the greatest threat this country faces in the world?
We also need to understand how the country has historically viewed such crimes and how it has treated them in the past to place what has happened in perspective. After his examination of traitors including Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, and leaders of the Confederacy, David Rothkopf concludes that Donald Trump and his many abettors have committed the highest-level, greatest, most damaging betrayal in the history of the country.
https://smile.amazon.com/Traitor-Case-Against-Donald-Trump/dp/1250228832/
"Denial of truth IS fascism." #dɯnɹʇ #BigLie Historian Of Fascism
"There's a simple solution: tell the truth about the election." ♞♘
“President Trump said to do so”
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) February 8, 2021
“I was doing what he asked us to do”
“An event inspired by the President of the United States”
“Calling on us to come back to Washington”
“Await orders from our Commander in Chief”
“Trump told the crowd to go to the Capitol”pic.twitter.com/fTuoM4o2LC
