Conspiracy to Incite Capitol Riots
A lawsuit by the NAACP and Bennie Thompson accuses Trump and Rudy Giuliani of Conspiring to Incite U.S. Capitol Riot.
The NAACP, on behalf of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.), filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, accusing them of conspiring to incite the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The lawsuit also names two right-wing groups, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Some members of each group have been arrested in connection with the attack, which left five people, including one police officer, dead.
The lawsuit, filed in Washington alleges that Messrs. Trump and Giuliani and members of the two groups attempted to disenfranchise millions of Black voters by preventing Congress from fulfilling its official duties to certify election results—which they allege violates the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. That law allows suits seeking compensation for constitutional violations.
The NAACP filed the lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Thompson, who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. The suit seeks both compensatory and punitive damages. Additional members of Congress are expected to join as plaintiffs, according to Mr. Thompson’s legal team.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) voted to acquit Mr. Trump on Saturday, citing his belief that it was unconstitutional to impeach a president who is no longer in office. But Mr. McConnell sharply criticized Mr. Trump’s actions and suggested he could still face repercussions through the justice system.
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,” Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor Saturday, following the vote. “We have a criminal justice system in this country.”
Trump Still Liable
It seems as if McConnell welcomes if not invited these lawsuits.
Regardless, he clearly wants the party to purge itself of Trump.
As I have stated repeatedly, Trump’s legal problems have just begun.
Mr. Trump also faces a defamation lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll, a journalist who accused Mr. Trump of raping her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s. Ms. Carroll’s lawsuit, originally filed in November 2019 in New York state court, contended Mr. Trump defamed her when he denied the alleged rape after an excerpt from her book was published last year.
57 Senators Vote to Convict Trump
On February 13, I noted 57 Senators Vote to Convict Trump on Inciting an Insurrection Against the United States
Today was a sad day for the US Constitution. But this might be rectified in a real court of law.
Question of the Day
Tax Evasion
As noted on February 14, New York Prosecutors Put a Spotlight on Trump’s Flagship Properties
There will be more.
Also, please note A Criminal Investigation of Trump’s Attempt to Influence the 2020 Election Has Begun
Mish
They gotta stop pursing the guy; every time the details come the public see how the media headlines don’t actually match the facts and Trump comes out looking better than when he went in. Trump just needs to cut to the video showing him saying “peacefully and patriotically” then to all the video showing the actual context of all the quotes that are being twisted to fit the narrative and he’s done.
They’d have a better chance suing Ted Cruz for attempted murder, using AOC being a star witness.
He wont be able settle cases out of court this time with nondisclosure agreements. When it ends up showing Trump has direct links to Russian mobsters who are friends of Putin, the Trumo organization will be designated a domestic and foreign terrorist organization and all assets will be frozen.
Ah, the Russia narrative again.
You’d think after 4 years someone might have dug up a shred of proof and yet they haven’t.
It’s just like Obama’s birth certificate. 8 years and not a shred of proof he wasn’t born in the USA.
Lol. You dont even know the half of it. Manafort’s company was the one that organized the riot. It will all come out after a 1/6 commission happens. But then you probably dont believe 9/11 happen either.
Oh no, you still selling the Russian hoax; no one is buying. Adding a Manafort conspiracy too boot. I think Manafort tried to murder AOC too didn’t he?
TexasTim nailed it, with all the dollars the democrats spent trying to get something out of Russia…. all they uncovered was there own collusion and interference with the FBI. Every time someone digs through the details, the anti-Trump narrative implodes…hence my statement that their gaslighting would be more effective if just just stick to pummeling him with fake headlines as people will buy those….just don’t show ’em how the sausage is made.
So many of his circle involved with Russians and nothing bad to say about Putin. No nothing fishy there. But if you’re listening there are 30k emails I’d like you to find. Interesting WikiLeaks found so much on the dems but nothing on the repubs. Thought Juilian was supposed to be fair and balanced?
Some people are sick of Trump headlines, but they have to remember two things:
Trump would love to keep the spotlight on himself, he cares far more about attention than the principles he espoused
We can’t pretend most Trump supporters would have been magnanimous in victory. We as a country chose to live in this bitter divide, so this is the result. We reap what we’ve sown.
I’m happy to keep Trump in the spotlight until he dies. He can be the face of the Republican party. What happen in Georgia is going to happen all over the south come 2022 and 2024. Trump’s effect on the political map will be as impactful as Goldwater.
The old 1871 kkk act. Trump didn’t you know about that c’mon man!
those old acts will get you every time!
Maybe we can also sue Tump for violating the 1792 coinage act define a US dollar as 0.77 ounces silver. My dollars are hardly worth that.
When I think about I am not sure which one is worse!
So what’s the over/under on the Trump Organization being designated a domestic terrorist organization by the FBI ?
Trump, Trump, Trump!
We must keep Trump in the news even when there is no news, as he is the proxy for the conservative, Constitution-loving deplorables who are the bane of power holders (who control most of MSM in case it wasn’t noticed).
Sorry for your loss. Well not really.
Trump supporters come in many flavors, but many of the outspoken ones, particularly Q leaning, definitely do not love the Constitution. They openly yearn for authoritarianism in the form of mass arrests and executions.
Trump alone will determine whether he is in the news. Nixon vanished from view, never to be heard from again, and consequently, vanished from the news. This, in turn, allowed the Republican Party to heal and recover. The extent to which Nixon vanished even led to Steve Martin joking that he imagined Nixon wandering down the beach at San Clemente with a metal detector.
Will Trump vanish, or will he choose to stay in the news? I expect the latter.
The witch-hunt of “Russiagate” has morphed into the legal/political/media pile-on of “insurrection”. In the words of Nietzsche, “Beware those in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” Trump was never an answer to the deep-going crisis of capitalism, but neither are the reactionaries, liberal and conservative, waving the banner of “defending democracy” while practicing clampdown, censorship, and purges. But Mish is now on-board, as if they needed another cheerleader.
The witch-hunt of “Russiagate” morphs into the legal/political/media pile-on of “insurrection”. In the words of Nietzsche, “Beware those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” Trump was no solution to the crisis of capitalism, but neither is the clampdown disguised as “defending democracy”, but Mish has fallen for it and become a cheerleader.
As of now, no criminal charges have actually been filed, as far as I know. The NAACP case is a civil case. So is Carroll’s lawsuit.
There is a “criminal inquiry” in Georgia…..no charges have been filed AFAIK………and if they are filed there is at least a fair chance that Trump will skate on technicalities.
I’d love to see Trump up to his ass in alligators….but it might not play out that way.
DC has jurisdiction over the riots…..Where is acting federal prosecutor Michael Sherwin in all this? The riot is his case, if he wants to pursue it.
The suit includes Giuliani, and from the footage I’ve seen, Rudy’s screwed.
While Trump spoke in “Dog Whistle” at the rally, Giuliani used far more direct language to the soon-to-be rioters.
I would say this is more important than just a bunch of lawsuits that will take years to settle.
Isn’t there some saying about commission’s. Where you want to act like your looking for answers but not find any. It been a while.
That’s the risk but to do that would require deep cooperation between the two parties not to mention trust. It’s just not there. Pelosi said she wanted one a month ago but it’s not sure still wants it. It will be interesting if it gets off the ground.
Impeachment isn’t the final word on Capitol riot for Trump https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-riots-acquittals-impeachments-6fb642f97be5f2bd202e8bc002d6a167
We talked about this a couple of days ago. What is new this time around? People are suing Trump and that is not new and expected.
Bush and Obama, were directly responsible for 100,000’s of Deaths…..not one charge.
In your wet dreams.
I just don’t get what Lindsey and McCarthy are thinking. The base may be loyal but Trump is not controllable. The GOP will not get any corporate money so long as he’s involved either. And while Trump may be popular with the GOP over 100,000 Republicans have left the fold since January 6th so its a smaller GOP. Good luck appealing to independents too. The stratey of resurrecting Trump at best makes the GOP a regional force while turning it into something resembling the Ukranian Svoboa party.
Per a poll today, 80% of Republicans want Trump to stay in control of the party. Most every Republican acknowledges that Trump brought a lot of new people into the party. What they forget is that he drove even more out. If he was really bringing more into the party and growing it, he would have been re-elected, and Republicans would still control both houses of Congress.
It’s worked well for Republicans, so expect more of the same. I expect them to continue to drive moderates, libertarians, and principled conservatives out of the party. Will a smaller but unified party be able to win elections? Will the displaced moderates, libertarians, and conservatives be able to team with moderate Democrats to pull the Democrat party back to the center? We’ll just have to wait and see how things unfold, but my guess is no, and no. With no viable party opposing them, I think the emboldened liberal wing of the Democrat Party will successfully pass large portions of their agenda.
I would say he drove out people like Mitt Romney also known as as head of Bain Capital perfected the strategy of buying a troubled company, selling off to friends the valuable assets, loading it up with debt, getting the company to pay them outsized dividends financed by the debt, charging the company outrageous management and consulting fees, instituting pay cuts and firing, raiding it’s pension fund and when all the money is stolen Bain Capital would throw away the husk. Capitalism is supposed to be creative destruction but Romney cut out the creative part and went directly to the destruction. The Republicans have to root out evil people like Romney and there are still too many. These people feel at home with the corporate Democrats because they are the same. Good riddance!
Yep. Bain Capital and companies like them are just modern pirates. They create nothing, just steal what others have created. They will buy you with your own money.
“80% of Republicans want Trump to stay in control of the party.”
…and, thanks to Trump, this number likely equates to between 15%-20% of voters.
As the party shrinks, individual candidates are left appeasing an increasingly extreme minority, which shrinks the party more…and so on, and so on…
I remember the party of Reagan, times have changed.
My gut tells me the NAACP is no lay-up but discovery could pose a problem for Trump. Wonder if McConnell messed up by not declaring Trump the loser and Biden the next President last November.
I think we can all agree Romney is a vulture capitalist of the worst type. I think Trump was unfairly harassed by the press and the government bureaucratic machinery, blaming the Dems for this is laughable because the two parties policing each other is an integral part of our system. That being said recently Trump exposed himself as a modern would be dictator and is rapidly shrinking the Republican base. I’d like to see him break the two party system by creating a third party so we can get away from this two party system that chokes reasonable improvements to our system and heavily favors elites.
Trump is dead. He just won’t lay down.
does it really matter? he paved the path for psychopaths.
“does it really matter? he paved the path for psychopaths.”
That’s the true elephant, millions of Trump wannabe’s believe a sense of entitlement is the only roadmap to success & precludes rule of law.
I agree. Im worried about his flunkies. Out of all the republicans that acquitted him probably around ten are just as guilty and dangerous.
As Sean Hannity cries like a weenie that Mitch McConnell is not backing the man Hannity got on his knees for over the past five years. It’s pathetic!
I am sure that we can build the equivalent of Spandau Prison.