Former WH Counsel Richard Painter Calls for a Special Prosecutor to Hold Trump Accountable for 1/6

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/20/former-white-house-counsel-richard-painter-calls-for-a-special-prosecutor-to-hold-trump-accountable-for-1-6.html


Posted on Mon, Sep 20th, 2021 by Alan Ryland
Former White House Counsel Richard Painter Calls for a Special Prosecutor to Hold Trump Accountable for 1/6


Writing in a column for MSNBC, former White House Counsel Richard Painter called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to appoint a special prosecutor to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for the events of January 6, the day a group of Trump’s supporters attacked the United States Capitol on the false premise that the election had been stolen.

Painter writes that Trump violated 18 USC 610 of the federal code, which makes it a federal crime for “any person to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, any employee of the Federal Government … to engage in, or not to engage in, any political activity.”

“More than 30 years ago, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued persuasively that special prosecutors are needed when high-ranking officials shatter the public’s faith in the government’s integrity,” Painter writes. “He’s president now, and his attorney general, Merrick Garland, has the authority to appoint a special counsel to investigate and prosecute allegations of crimes by Trump and others, including violations of the political coercion statute.”

Painter goes on to add that Garland “not only has that authority, but he also has the obligation” to prosecute crimes committed by the former president.

“Whether a former president should be prosecuted for allegations including coercing political activity by federal employees or inciting insurrection should not be a political judgment call,” he writes. “A president who committed such crimes must be prosecuted if we do not want those crimes to be repeated by future presidents or our representative democracy imperiled.”

[BComplex]

1. TFG will never go to jail. The American justice system will NOT jail a former president,

or anyone else that is that well-connected or powerful.

[Justice matters.]

2. Nixon was going there but his pal Ford pardonned him JIT

Nobody will pardon the orange terrorist.

[NJCher]

5. What qualifies you

To tell us the future?

[NJCher]

4. And your qualifications

As a prognosticator are???

[Dorian Gray]

7. Sadly

I agree. And I think that all the articles and all the outrage out there demanding it are useful tools to keep us engaged in anger and hate. It's a fake narrative that won't get us anywhere.

While I don't think we should forget what happened surrounding Jan 6th, I feel like the media is intentional drip drip dripping information to us, getting our hopes up, which will lead to a feeling of hopelessness eventually (when nothing happens).

I think the Qs are experiencing that phenomenon right now.

But we need to judge what is a realistic course of action. And I don't think that our DOJ will ever ever ever jail a former president.

[monkeyman1]

3. all for this - hope it comes about !

[malaise]

6. +1,000

Lock him up and throw away the key

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Who is/are the federal employee(s) he is referring to?

Pence?

[Champp]

9. make it so

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Richard Painter is TOPS!

“This is how the Russians have operated for years - they get the goods on people and then they can get you to do what they want. This is how someone like Donald Trump could be turned into a Russian asset.”

Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/richard_painter_1028017?src=t_goods