This wasn’t the first time Lamberth tried to shut down MAGA’s national gaslighting efforts. In a January sentencing memorandum for another participant who was convicted of a felony on January 6, he declared:
Some celebrities are trying to rewrite history, claiming that the rioters behaved in an “orderly manner” like ordinary tourists, or that the defendants convicted on January 6th ” I was shocked to see people being martyred as “political prisoners” or, unbelievably, as “hostages.” …
The “protesters” were likely simply sharing their opinions about the election — as were the thousands of others who did not approach the Capitol that day. But those who invaded and occupied the Capitol building and grounds halted the counting of electoral votes, as required by the 12th Amendment.
He added: “This was not an out-of-control protest. It was a riot. It is in many ways an organized riot, as is clear from my previous incidents. …The rioters… Although they failed to achieve their ultimate goal, their actions still resulted in the deaths of multiple people, injuries to more than 140 law enforcement personnel, and lasting trauma across our nation,” he concluded. “This was not patriotism. It was the opposite of patriotism.”
In estimation republican presidential candidate Lamberth opposes the normalization of all of this, including calling convicted criminals on January 6th “hostages,” saluting their “national anthem,” and clearly aligning himself with violent insurrectionists. His latest talk could not be more timely.
At last week’s January 6 sentencing hearing for violent offender Taylor James Jonatakis, who was found guilty of obstruction of justice, civil disorder, and assaulting, resisting, and obstructing a police officer, Lamberth declared: did. US Capitol riot. ” The senior judge did not mention former President Donald Trump, who has been indicted four times for inciting the riot, but warned of the damage such outrageous lies can do to our democracy.
CNN reported that Lamberth said, “If Americans upset about future election results resort to the “alarmism, lawlessness, and anarchy” that occurred on January 6, 2021, a “vicious cycle” will ensue, jeopardizing our institutions. “There is a possibility that this may happen,” he warned. He called the rebellion “corrupt, selfish and unpatriotic.” Lamberth also stressed to the defendants and the public at large that there is “no place in our country for this type of political violence.”
Nevertheless, the major political parties and their putative candidates, as well as millions of Americans, embrace and coddle violent mobs, insisting on holding them “hostage” and that Trumpism and American democracy This raises questions about whether they can coexist.
President Trump not only reaffirmed January 6th as a glorious event, but also promised to pardon those involved. Just Security has compiled a list of criminals who would be released if they saved convicts and inmates awaiting trial. Tom Josselin, Fred Wertheimer, and Norman L. Eisen were arrested in January as of March 23 (the day after President Trump reportedly vowed to release “these people”). It was calculated that there were 29 inmates in custody related to the 6th. Either awaiting trial or after conviction. ”
Among them are “27 people charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer on Capitol Hill or its grounds.”,” Of these, 20 were convicted or pled guilty. This act of violence should shock the American people.
A convicted felon led an attack, or “attack,” on police protecting security outside the Capitol. [that] It paved the way for thousands of rioters to storm the Capitol grounds. ” Another inmate allegedly threw an “explosive device at at least 25 officers,” causing some officers to temporarily lose their hearing. “For many of the other officers interviewed, it was the most memorable event of the day,” the FBI special agent’s statement of facts said. Other inmates taken into custody in Washington, D.C., on January 6: “Maliciously ripped off” the mask of a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer. He assaulted a police officer “with an electric shock device.” He is accused of pepper spraying multiple police officers. He allegedly “struck a Metropolitan Police Department officer multiple times with a long wooden stick,” and used “a crutch and a metal rod” as a “bludgeoning weapon or projectile” against a “column of law enforcement officers.”
At the most basic level, President Trump’s support for the January 6th criminals undermines the notion that he and his MAGA supporters are “on the side of blue” or represent the “law and order” party. It should be defeated. Mr. Trump called these people to the Capitol and encouraged them to come to the Capitol. Now facing trial himself for the events of January 6, he wants the foot soldiers he recruited to attack democracy released from prison.
If we take a step back, Americans should still be fed up with the fact that a man running for president continues to tolerate law-breaking and promises to reward it. The job Trump seeks requires an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” By embracing constitutional terrorism, President Trump is suggesting that he cannot honor his oath. (And let’s not forget that he claimed he could “terminate” the Constitution as he saw fit.)
The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump’s participation in a violent coup attempt was not technically disqualifying under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but voters did not want to incite and glorify insurrectionists. , it is certainly possible that a candidate who promises liberation will be judged unable to fulfill the duties of the president.
They should heed former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)’s advice. “I know that (Trump) tried once not to leave office, but there is no incentive to ensure a peaceful transfer of power and there is no incentive for him to leave office again,” Cheney said in a recent speech at Drake University in Des Moines. should be selected.” In explaining why Trump is clearly a far worse choice than Biden, she said: We cannot survive a president who seeks to destroy the Constitution. (As an aside, President Trump’s “policies” include a 15-week national abortion ban, inviting a Russian invasion of NATO, and imposing 60 percent tariffs on Chinese goods that would raise inflation to 10 percent. Also Much worse than anything Biden imagined. )
MAGA Republicans are poised to name the masterminds of the coup attempt through massive gaslighting. That alone hurts our democracy.actually elect However, a president with such characteristics would irreparably damage our constitutional system. America’s voters must now do what they didn’t do, because the cantankerous Republicans in the Senate refused to convict him and bar him from office at his second impeachment trial. It is about protecting our democracy from the scourge of Trump and Trumpism. If we don’t, we’ll be on the side of a giant liar who wants to throw away the Constitution.
