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Any doubts that Trump will face criminal charges for Jan. 6?

Liz Cheney might be onto something with criminal charges for Trump, legal experts say

.................In recent days, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has drawn attention with public remarks that directly addressed Trump's potential criminal culpability in connection with the Capitol siege.

Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the House committee investigating January 6, called attention to a federal statute making it illegal to obstruct an official proceeding. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke up about Trump's legal liability as the panel took steps to hold his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in contempt of Congress for ceasing cooperation with lawmakers' probe.

"Mr. Meadows'  testimony will bear on a key question in front of this Committee: Did Donald Trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede Congress's official proceeding to count electoral votes?" Cheney said. "Mr. Meadows' testimony will inform our legislative judgments on those issues."

In those remarks, legal experts saw a clear reference to a charge the the Justice Department has already brought against hundreds of January 6 defendants: "corruptly obstructing an official proceeding." It is the statute that could be relevant for any prosecution of Trump if evidence emerges that he planned or was aware of the violence that unfolded on January 6.

"It all depends on the facts. If the people who stormed the Capitol can be prosecuted for obstructing a congressional proceeding, if he played a role in that, then he's equally liable — whether it's instigating it, aiding and abetting it, planning it," said Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor and now a professor at the George Washington University Law School.

"But they have to show he had some kind of role as opposed to: He sees it happen, sits back and enjoys it, but doesn't do anything. They have to show that he played some role in causing it, not that the riot went out of control and he just gleefully watched it happen," Eliason added............

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-criminal-prosecution-charges-liz-cheney-january-6-obstruction-congress-2021-12
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"But they have to show he had some kind of role as opposed to: He sees it happen, sits back and enjoys it, but doesn't do anything. They have to show that he played some role in causing it, not that the riot went out of control and he just gleefully watched it happen," Eliason added....

Just wow, at what point did Trump instigate it, by saying peacefully assemble and let your voice be heard? Was it Trump that refused the National Guard or was it Trump that offered it? Did Trump open doors and allow people to enter or was it the Capitol Gestapo? Was it Trump who sat back and enjoyed watching the citizens walk peacefully through taking selfies or was it the Capitol Gestapo? While Trump was at a rally 2 miles away did he remain silent and enjoy the actions at the capitol, egg them on or did he repeatedly tell those at the capitol to be peaceful and behave in a lawful manor?

The democrats, RINOS(I repeat myself) and the communist media edit texts and emails changing them to promote their agenda and lie about what occurred and who was to blame...Pelosi, Mayor Bowser, Chief Sund are the ones who refused to have adequate resources on hand and that makes them culpable in the murder of Ashli Babbitt and responsible for the incursion into the capitol. Had they had the National Guard in place as you that guy before Joe had suggested and offered and the capitol police not been complicit in the entry of the protestors than we wouldn't have this whole crapoganza. But then the democrats wouldn't have a club to beat Trump with now would they.

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"But they have to show he had some kind of role as opposed to: He sees it happen, sits back and enjoys it, but doesn't do anything. They have to show that he played some role in causing it, not that the riot went out of control and he just gleefully watched it happen," Eliason added....

Just wow, at what point did Trump instigate it, by saying peacefully assemble and let your voice be heard? Was it Trump that refused the National Guard or was it Trump that offered it? Did Trump open doors and allow people to enter or was it the Capitol Gestapo? Was it Trump who sat back and enjoyed watching the citizens walk peacefully through taking selfies or was it the Capitol Gestapo? While Trump was at a rally 2 miles away did he remain silent and enjoy the actions at the capitol, egg them on or did he repeatedly tell those at the capitol to be peaceful and behave in a lawful manor?

The democrats, RINOS(I repeat myself) and the communist media edit texts and emails changing them to promote their agenda and lie about what occurred and who was to blame...Pelosi, Mayor Bowser, Chief Sund are the ones who refused to have adequate resources on hand and that makes them culpable in the murder of Ashli Babbitt and responsible for the incursion into the capitol. Had they had the National Guard in place as you that guy before Joe had suggested and offered and the capitol police not been complicit in the entry of the protestors than we wouldn't have this whole crapoganza. But then the democrats wouldn't have a club to beat Trump with now would they.

The leftists will do everything to ensure that Trump never runs again. There is this issue and then the issue of his tax returns. Who knows what they will come at him with next.
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Cheney once again showing her extreme disloyalty not only for the party but for the country; her hatred for Trump outweighs all for her.
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Cheney once again showing her extreme disloyalty not only for the party but for the country; her hatred for Trump outweighs all for her.

Don't forget disloyalty to her voters.

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The Double Jeopardy Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits anyone from being prosecuted twice for substantially the same crime.

Just sayin'