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Can Trump be Charged with Inciting a Riot?
Donald Trump encouraged this behavior in a speech near the White House. He incited this riot and he along with Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani should be held criminally liable. Their speeches are the proof that has been broadcast repeatedly over the past few days.
The Washington Post reports that “An army of 8,000 pro-Trump demonstrators streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue after hearing Trump speak near the White House.”
The Associated Press reports that the standard for legal liability is high under court decisions reaching back 50 years. The legal issue is whether Trump or any of the speakers at Wednesday’s rally near the White House that preceded the assault on the Capitol incited violence and whether they knew their words would have that effect. That’s the standard the Supreme Court laid out in its 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which overturned the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader.
A Second Civil War?
Trump is not done. It seems obvious that he will do whatever it takes to retain the presidency. I mean there are no limits. There are rumors of another attack on the Capitol on January 17.
Is the United States of America on the verge of a second Civil War? Was the invasion of the Capitol the first act of that war?
A day before Capitol attack, pro-Trump crowd stormed meeting, threatened officials in rural California as reported in the Los Angeles Times. Dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury entered a Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting.
“When Joe Biden’s long winter sets and the dark night comes in this country, do you think you’re going to get to see the dawn?” Timothy Fairfield, 44, of Shingletown asked the supervisors. “No, you will not. Flee now while you can. Because the days of your tyranny are drawing to a close, and the legitimacy of this government is waning. “When the ballot box is gone,” he added, “there is only the cartridge box. You have made bullets expensive. But luckily for you, ropes are reusable.”
The Washington Post reports “Police departments across the U.S. open probes into whether their own members took part in the Capitol riot.”
Concerns about more violent incidents appear to be well-founded. Calls for widespread protests on the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden have been rampant online for weeks. These demonstrations are scheduled to culminate with what organizers have dubbed a “Million Militia March” on Jan. 20 as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris are to be sworn in on the same Capitol grounds that rioters overran on Wednesday.
Is this the end of the American democracy? It appears millions of Americans are willing to follow the leadership of an autocrat.
Democrats Take Control of Congress and the Presidency
Hello unified government! Good-bye Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. 
It was a dream that few thought would come true. The Democrats won both senate seats from the state of Georgia.
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock’s victories delivered a crushing defeat to Republicans, stripping them of their main bastion of power in the post-Trump capitol. Ossoff won by 35,615 votes. Warnock won by 73,404 votes.
The wins means that Joe Biden’s cabinet selections will likely have much smoother approval by the Senate. With the Senate split and Vice President Kamala Harris providing the tie breaking vote the Biden agenda will have a better chance of success. Senator Chuck Schumer will now be the Senate Leader. The $2,000 relief checks for Americans are significantly more likely to become a reality.
Joe Biden has more than 1,200 jobs to fill that require Senate confirmation. And he’s going to do that much more quickly thanks to Democrats’ victories in Georgia.
A Joe Biden agenda will be easier to accomplish. Mr. Biden wants to rebuild roads and bridges and address climate change. Not long after taking the oath of office he is likely to issue orders to rejoin the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, and to reinstate the program that allows young immigrants known as “Dreamers” to remain in the United States.
There are many other things that need addressing including health care, liveable wages, and criminal justice reform.
I’m rooting for you Mr. Biden. Please don’t disappoint me!
Autocrat
Cambridge English dictionary definition: A ruler with unlimited power, or someone who demands that people completely obey them. Google 
definition: Someone who insists on complete obedience from others; an imperious or domineering person.
Do these definitions remind you of anyone? How about Donald Trump?
Vice President Mike Pence proffered four years of loyalty to everything Trump said and did. He kept his mouth shut and praised Trump frequently. Then Pence decided to do his duty in counting the electoral ballots. Pence did the right thing. Trump attacked Pence for not having the ‘courage’ to overturn the election as the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol.
Trump has demanded total loyalty from everyone in his cabinet and others like the director of the FBI. If they dared to contradict him they were fired.
Trump fired Chris Krebs, director of CISA, after the agency released a statement that called the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.”
Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Twitter and replaced him with National Counterterrorism Center Director Christopher Miller.
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, fired via tweet. Tillerson had called Trump a moron.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was replaced with a loyalist who has echoed the president’s complaints about the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference and would take charge of the inquiry.
The list is much longer but you get the idea.
With 80 million Tweet followers Donald Trump is in his glory. Those people believe that despite his faults he deserves the admiration they give him. That is what is frightening about today.
A Chilling Attack on American Democracy
Thanks to Donald Trump’s attack on the election system of the United States, that each state operates independently, millions of Americans now believe the entire system is fraudulent.
The Republican effort to contest the presidential election results on the Senate floor this week is raising questions about how media outlets should cover the moment, and whether the Trump-supported action should be called an attempted “coup” writes Alexis Benveniste for CNN Business.
Both conservative news media and many conservative members of congress are appalled by what transpired on Capitol Hill on January 6.
Fearing what Trump might do next House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues today that she had spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, about keeping an “unstable president” from accessing the nuclear codes.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has joined the chorus of those in the media demanding Donald Trump resign as president. “This goes beyond merely refusing to concede defeat. In our view it crosses a constitutional line that Mr. Trump hasn’t previously crossed. It is impeachable,” the Journal wrote. “If Mr. Trump wants to avoid a second impeachment, his best path would be to take personal responsibility and resign.”
Time will tell whether the takeover of Capitol was a riot, a last gasp of a renegade president or an early skirmish in a civil war. But it already is clear that Jan. 6, 2021, will go down as one of the ugliest days in U.S. history.
What more could happen in the remaining days of the Donald Trump presidency? Trump hinted at his preferred answer at the end of his Thursday address, saying, “Our incredible journey is only just beginning.”
Inciting a Riot
The right to protest is one of the oldest and most-respected rights in the American democratic system. The right of citizens to peacefully protest is protected
by our First Amendment rights to free speech. Of course, there are limits to even the most important rights, and the right to protest doesn’t permit violence or the incitement to violence.
18 U.S. Code § 2102 defines a riot public disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
The federal crime of rioting is punishable by fines, imprisonment for up to five years.
Donald Trump’s words were meant to incite a riot. He should be held criminally liable.
Constitutional Coup d’état
The president refuses to acknowledge Joe Biden’s win, but experts say there is no constitutional path forward for him to remain in the White House. 
Tomorrow, a group of Republican lawmakers plan to challenge the electoral votes won by President-elect Joe Biden (citing fraud that did not occur), while President Donald Trump is pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to help them (with power he does not have). Noah Feldman writes in Bloomberg Opinion that the 134-year-old law that allows this to happen needs an overhaul. While Biden’s inauguration is almost a foregone conclusion since Democrats control the House, Feldman says that “if the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, they would be in the position to carry out a constitutional coup d’état.” Trump is planning to address supporters who are gathering in Washington to protest his defeat. Biden bested Trump 306 to 232 in the Electoral College, and by more than 7 million in the popular vote.
Despite all the assurances that Donald Trump cannot overthrow the will of the people I am very concerned. He has a legion of supporters who are determined to see him inaugurated for a second term on January 20. He has even considered the use of the military to retain his office. It may not be a Constitutional Coup d’état but a Coup d’état by any means is good enough for Donald Trump.
Tomorrow, a group of Republican lawmakers plan to challenge the electoral votes won by President-elect Joe Biden (citing fraud that did not occur), while President Donald Trump is pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to help them (with power he does not have). Noah Feldman writes in Bloomberg Opinion that the 134-year-old law that allows this to happen needs an overhaul. While Biden’s inauguration is almost a foregone conclusion since Democrats control the House, Feldman says that “if the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, they would be in the position to carry out a constitutional coup d’état.” Trump is planning to address supporters who are gathering in Washington to protest his defeat. Biden bested Trump 306 to 232 in the Electoral College, and by more than 7 million in the popular vote.
Despite all the assurances that Donald Trump cannot overthrow the will of the people I am very concerned. He has a legion of supporters who are determined to see him inaugurated for a second term on January 20. He has even considered the use of the military to retain his office. It may not be a Constitutional Coup d’état but a Coup d’état by any means is good enough for Donald Trump.
All 10 living former defense secretaries oppose military use by Trump to retain his office
This Time magazine cover was meant to be a joke. Donald Trump is serious about retaining power forever.
All 10 living former US defense secretaries — both Republicans and Democrats — wrote a Washington Post op-ed article urging President Donald Trump to refrain from using the military to interfere in the 2020 election.
The signatories stressed that involving the military in election disputes could result in criminal charges.
Trump has repeatedly suggested there may not be a peaceful transfer of power and is said to have entertained suggestions that the military step in to help him dispute the election.
The article, titled “Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory,” was signed by all 10 living former US defense secretaries, including two — Mark Esper and James Mattis — who served under President Donald Trump.
The other signees were Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel, and Ashton Carter, who served under Barack Obama; Robert Gates, who served under Obama and George W. Bush; William Cohen and William Perry, who served under Bill Clinton; Dick Cheney, who served under George H.W. Bush; and Donald Rumsfeld, who served first under Gerald Ford in 1975 and was later tapped for the role under George W. Bush.
“American elections and the peaceful transfers of power that result are hallmarks of our democracy,” they wrote in The Post, adding that the administration should “refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team.”
“The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived,” the letter continued.
General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked by Congress what, if any, role the military should have in the election. “I believe deeply in the principle of an apolitical US military,” Milley said. “In the event of a dispute over some aspect of the elections, by law, US courts and the US Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the US military. I foresee no role for the US armed forces in this process.”
It appears Donald Trump will not accept that advice. He is more likely to refuse to physically resist leaving the White House. Who will escort him out?
Is this treason?
From the constitution “Before he enters the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—’I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'”
Listen to this phone call and tell me is the treason?
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