Members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have warned America for three years to take former President Donald Trump at his word.
Now, as Trump is poised to win the Republican presidential nomination, his criminal trials face delays that could stall them past Election Day, and his rhetoric grows increasingly authoritarian, some of those lawmakers find themselves following their own advice.
In mid-March, Trump said on social media that the committee members should be jailed. In December he vowed to be a dictator on “day one.” In August, he said he would “have no choice” but to lock up his political opponents.
“If he intends to eliminate our constitutional system and start arresting his political enemies, I guess I would be on that list,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose). “One thing I did learn on the committee is to pay attention and listen to what Trump says, because he means it.”
Lofgren added that she doesn’t yet have a plan in place to thwart potential retribution by Trump. But Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who has long been a burr in Trump’s side, said he’s having “real-time conversations” with his staff about how to make sure he stays safe if Trump follows through on his threats.
“We’re taking this seriously, because we have to,” Schiff said. “We’ve seen this movie before … and how perilous it is to ignore what someone is saying when they say they want to be a dictator.”
Many of those people should be in prison… How many are in prison for the riots vs jan 6th? How about vs May 29th?
That’s your view, in my view there should have been more injured cops. What point are you making about comparing the numbers of people in prison? The scale of the two things are not even comparable, there were massive protests in every single state in the country.
And how many were prosecuted in each?
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-capitol-rioters-jailed-sentences-january-6-1826075 You’re welcome to count
Lol, do you not understand how this exactly proves my point?
In what way? What even is your point? Your argument is incoherent and exhausting, which is probably your goal anyway.
The point is that this is a targeted prosecution, and then you literally showed the gigantic list of people.
Yes and? The article was illustrating what convictions people have been receiving. What do you even mean by targeted prosecution?
Targeted as that near thousand or so were being prosecuted for crimes as severe as assault, and then ones as minor as tresspassing, and the people that did no violent act are getting years in prison. Compared to the months of riots and terroizing cities, doing billions of damage, literally overthrowing parts of a city, dozens dead, with millions of people involved, and as far as I am aware LESS people being prosecuted and convicted.