Why Trump not indicted for disqualifying insurrection?
Democrats perceive Trump as a paralyzing wedge issue for Republicans
August 5, 2023
Letters to the Editor
The New York Times
Re: “The Charges Notably Absent in the Case” (Front page story by Alan Feuer, August 4, 2023)
To the Editor:
The charge of aiding or assisting “insurrection,” if sustained against former President Donald Trump, would disqualify him from the 2024 presidential race under section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The charge was probably omitted from Mr. Trump’s August 1, 2023, federal grand jury indictment not from fear of a free speech defense. It had been rejected in a companion civil rights case, Thompson v. Trump (February 18, 2022) by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta. Judge Mehta found that Mr. Trump’s incendiary Stop the Steal lies to an armed mob on January 6 succeeded in inciting an attack on the Capitol to prevent Vice President Mike Pence from counting state-certified electoral votes to frustrate compliance with the Twelfth Amendment and Electoral Count Act.
Insurretion was more likely omitted because Democrats believe Trump would be a weak and convulsive Republican candidate against President Joe Biden and do not want him disqualified; or because it was thought disqualification would compound the nation’s partisan divisions. Special Counsel Jack Smith was probably not responsible for the omission.
Sincerely,
Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan and author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy
300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.; Suite 900
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Email: bruce@feinpoints.com
Hillary infamously asked her media friends to focus their attention on Trump because she thought him the weakest of GOP opponents. So, you think they didn’t learn anything from that?
Russiagate was a giant DNC scheme to impugn Trump. The media-watching public was immersed in Russiagate lies for years even while Consortium News shredded its claims as fast as they appeared.
Jan. 6th is just the same anti-Trump scheming as Russiagate only with a bigger and bolder cast, crew and script. Every thoughtful observer sees the risk that this war on Trump could make him even
more popular with voters than he ever was.
What worries me about this is that Trump said he didn’t need or want the money offered by large political donors then he took $100 million from three rich Zionists Singer, Marcus & Adelson. And in exchange for the cash, he bombed Syria, pretended he had the power to give Israel the Golan, and approved moving our embassy to Jerusalem. All this servile behavior to the Israel lobby is treasonous and loathsome.
We need candidates who would be ashamed to take any of their money or do any of the favors they want in return. Actually, if the legalized bribery called lobbying were made a capital offense tomorrow, US Government would begin to improve immediately.
“Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt, "The Progressive Covenant With The People" speech (August, 1912)