It’s time to indict and prosecute Donald Trump! Today’s final meeting of the January 6th Committee led to 4 criminal charges being recommended to the DOJ against Donald Trump, the former failed “president”, a loser who was the worst president in the history of this country.
The committee recommended that prosecutors pursue four charges against Trump: obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, inciting or assisting an insurrection, and conspiracy to make a false statement.
These charges are spelled out by Bennie Thompson, the Committee chairman:
The Select Committee is urging the Justice Department to prosecute Trump—here are the four statutes they’ve shown he violated: pic.twitter.com/4qGd1A0A8T
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) December 19, 2022
“He lost the 2020 election and knew it. But he chose to try to stay in office through a multipart scheme to overturn the results and block the transfer of power,” Thomspon said. “We’ve never had a president of the United States stir up a violent attempt to block the transfer of power.”
Thompson stressed that if the U.S. “is to survive as a nation of laws and democracy, this can never happen again.”
“Evidence we’ve gathered warrants further action beyond the power of this committee or the Congress to help ensure accountability on the law,” he said. “We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide a roadmap to justice, and that the agencies and institutions responsible for ensuring justice under the law will use the information we provide to aid in their work.”
Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said during the hearing that there was “an enormous effort led by ex-President Trump to spread baseless accusations and disinformation in an attempt to falsely convinced tens of millions of Americans that the election had been stolen from him.”
And here Jamie Raskin reads the charges against Trump:
Jamie Raskin reads the four criminal referrals against Donald Trump that the January 6 Committee has made to the DOJ. pic.twitter.com/PokMcFLJMK
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) December 19, 2022
From Common Dreams
“Donald Trump knowingly and corruptly repeated election fraud lies, which incited his supporters to violence on January 6, [and he] continues to repeat this meritless claim that the election was stolen even today,” she added. “[He] continues to erode our most cherished and shared belief in free and fair elections.”
The DOJ is not required to act on the panel’s referrals, which carry no legal weight. However, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a committee member and a lead manager of Trump’s second impeachment, stressed that “the Justice Department must apply the same standard of law to Donald Trump as they would to any citizen.”
No need to wait any longer, DOJ.
Do your job and prosecute and charge criminal Trump now!
And you MAGA freaks really need to stop buying Trump’s terrible art NFT “trading cards”. There are better, alternative Trump art cards out there, like this one. And the 3 after that too.
These are free!
#ProsecuteTrump #ChargeTrump #CriminalTrump #Jan6thCommittee #DOJDoYourJob
