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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI still believe Trump is legally responsible for all the injuries and deaths from Jan 6th.
He planned the attack on the capital. He inflamed his nut bag followers, he knew they were armed and he tweeted during the attack turning his followers against Pence. He never once tried to stop the attack as he watched it happen on TV.
He is guilty of inciting a riot which make him responsible for all injuries and deaths.
OLDMDDEM
(1,575 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,816 posts)GreenWave
(6,754 posts)Where I live the Magat candidate is so bombarded by Elaine Luria that she has literally stopped haunting us with her traditional scary piano music bs attack ads and nothing to offer of any substance.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)That is all.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,242 posts)I personally believe that there is enough evidence to bring charges against and convict TFG. This was a planned coup and there is some great evidence showing the TFG knew or should have known that the election was valid. I also believe that TFG will not dare to go to trial on a well pled federal case. If nothing else, TFG has alienated the top tier defense firm and is currently being represented by shopping center lawyers who are weak
I have worked on a number of plaintiff case over my career and have even argued several summary judgments. The evidence being produced by the Jan. 6 committee is compelling. TFG is being sued under the KKK Act in four or five cases and the evidence that the Jan 6 committee has available would kill TFG in these civil cases
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-committee-s-intel-could-be-used-to-sue-trump-into-oblivion-even-if-he-isn-t-charged-with-a-crime-report/
"While its doubtful the hearings will meet the sky-high expectations of those who believed the committee would expose open-and-shut wrongdoing from some of the nations top officials, the prime-time hearings will deliver one thing: evidence for many of the lawsuits seeking to make former President Donald Trump and other election denialists actually pay for the violence," reported Jose Pagliery. "'What the committee can't do is hold people accountable. But thats where criminal prosecutions and civil litigation comes in,' said Edward G. Caspar, an attorney representing injured and traumatized Capitol Police officers who are suing Trump after the violence insurrection."
As the report noted, the committee will be revealing a treasure trove of information for anyone who wants to pursue Trump civilly.
"According to the panel, it has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and collected at least 140,000 documents, obtained through subpoenas and delivered under oath," said the report. "Attorneys working on cases against Trump are already considering how to get that evidence in some cases, videos or interview transcripts into a form thats admissible in court for their cases. Luckily for those attorneys, the witnesses who spoke to the committee were already under oath when they testified."
"One of the attorneys on [Congressman Eric] Swalwells legal team, Phil Andonian, thinks new evidence might persuade the judge that theres a strong enough case that the Republican congressman bore some responsibility for the damage at the Capitol," said the report. "It was already known that Brooks, a Trump loyalist who peddled all kinds of disproven voter fraud claims, wore a bulletproof vest on the morning of Jan. 6 when he told riled up protesters near the White House that their ancestors had 'sacrificed their blood and sometimes their lives.'"
This are torts that may be discharged in Bankruptcy and there may be a remedy available under the KKK Act to ban TFG from holding future federal office
I am going to enjoye these civil cases