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SEPTEMBER

**1, 2020**

Meyerson on TAP

Trump: Campaigning, or Crossing State Lines to Incite a Riot?

Donald Trump's visit to Kenosha today will pour more oil than water on
the fires of fear and loathing he needs to stoke in order to be
re-elected. Which raises a question: Does this visit-for that matter,
do his broadcast remarks-constitute campaigning, or are they illegal
incitements for his followers, many of them armed, to engage in violence
against Blacks, socialists, liberals, and Democrats? And verbal violence
against the man who somehow personifies all these un-American
identities: Joe Biden.

According to 18 U.S. Code Section 2101
:

Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility
of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the
mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent to incite
a riot

... [s]hall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.

To be sure, Section 2101 hasn't been updated to include tweeting as a
stipulated form of interstate commerce, but it presumably comes under
the category of "not limited to" in the statute.

I don't want to be too harsh on Trump; there have been other traveling
campaigners who've spread more havoc than he in their wake. Genghis
Khan springs to mind. But I don't want to downplay Trump's
achievement, either. With the help of his friends at Fox News and QAnon,
he's still assembling his Horde.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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