For the vast majority of the January 6 prisoners the most they could be charged with was simple trespass. With no prior criminal history, normally there would be no jail time upon conviction, especially since protestors in DC routinely engage in trespass on Federal property with absolutely no consequence. To have so many of them held now for close to a year in confinement for a minor crime is an insult to any concept of equal justice. These people are being treated like this for purely political reasons. That Donald Trump has not lifted a finger to help them with legal assistance and other aid is beyond shameful.
Political Prisoners
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The left is bloodthirsty.
Recall AOC’s remarks about Trump supporters;
[Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?” she wrote. “I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.”]
A group calling itself the Trump Accountability Project sprung up to heed AOC’s call.
“Remember what they did,” the group’s sparse website declares. “We should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience: Those who elected him. Those who staffed his government. Those who funded him.
The J6 is just a small pot of fish.
AOC is looking forward to 70 – 80 million fish captured.
Punk.
Again, the entire local bench is implicated in this. If we ever have a Republican Congress again, job 1 should be to reduce the geographic jurisdiction of the current menu of courts in DC to one square yard in the middle of Connecticut Avenue and decree that they will be paid in potatoes once a year. And there isn’t one lawyer in the US Attorney’s office who should not be summarily fired.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
This is simply the ten millionth instance of the CCP-controlled regime mocking Americans’ collective intelligence.
i’m not sure President Trump’s involvement wouldn’t hurt more than help these people. think it through. the implications it would have. Congress is in a far better position to help these people. Trump’s involvement would only add fuel to the fire.
Congress is in a far better position to help these people.
How?
Donald Trump’s most shameful moment in office was when he busied himself with pardons for rap musicians and not for his supporters.
“That Donald Trump has not lifted a finger to help them with legal assistance and other aid is beyond shameful.“
What may even more shameful is that he is never asked about this when he is interviewed by conservative pundits. One of the things I have noticed that Trump almost never got tough questions. I don’t consider stupid gotcha questions from Jim Acosta et. al to be tough questions.
Every politician who sits down for an interview should be admonished to strap an ice pack to his ass because he should be in the hot seat. That few journalists approach interviews with this mindset anymore. And I find THAT really shameful!
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Having been in that hot seat earlier in life, I’m very skeptical of the value of an antagonistic posture by reporters. The point of asking questions is to elicit information, not to embarrass the politician. You may embarrass him, but you will learn nothing of value to your readers. (Michael Kinsley pointed out a generation ago that politicians got serious questions from joe blow in the audience and inane questions from professional journalists. I’ve certainly seen that, and the probability you will get an inane question is directly proportional to the prestige of the position the reporter occupies).
I suspect that Trump’s best strategy would be to assist the January 6 detainees in ways that are not obtrusive, but I do not know. What bothers me at least as much as Trump’s apparent indifference is the absence of legal counsel working on behalf of these defendants other than (often sketchy) public defenders. Remember the white shoe associates knocking each other over on behalf of Gitmo detainess? Where are they and where are the successor cohorts now that those poseurs are in mid-career? The starboard public interest bar is also AWOL, thought to be fair they may not have many people who would be optimal for criminal defense work. I cannot help but recall though, that among those who have been employed by such outfits is David French.
Cannot help but notice that any activity among members of Congress on behalf of J6 defendants has been on the part of happily outré characters like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louis Gohmert. I think Ted Cruz has made some public statements. Where’s Mr. Master-Class-on-the-Constitution Ben Sasse?
The Federalist was asking those exact same questions, Art.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/01/how-america-could-lose-free-speech-and-due-process/
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/26/law-firms-that-raced-to-defend-terrorists-in-gitmo-leave-j6-defendants-out-to-dry/
Heck I’ve noticed how many old Catholics against torture are all suddenly silent when it is their countrymen being tortured. Trump and his movement have done us all a favor by showing us just how hollow many people’s principles were.