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Subject Did Trump’s Actions on January 6 Reach the Level of Treason?
Date June 24, 2022 12:05 AM
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[ The hearings have shown, Donald Trump was in the room. Was it
treason? The framers of the Constitution had “a very specific image
in mind — men gathering with guns, forming an army and marching on
the seat of government.”]
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DID TRUMP’S ACTIONS ON JANUARY 6 REACH THE LEVEL OF TREASON?  
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Jesse Jackson
June 20, 2022
Chicago Sun-Times
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_ The hearings have shown, Donald Trump was in the room. Was it
treason? The framers of the Constitution had “a very specific image
in mind — men gathering with guns, forming an army and marching on
the seat of government.” _

Then-President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, to a
crowd that later joined in the storming of the Capitol., Jacquelyn
Martin/AP Photos // Chicago Sun-Times

 

Will Donald Trump be held accountable for the attack on the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and what was a multi-layered conspiracy to
overturn the results of the presidential election?

Attorney General Merrick Garland has stated that, “We’re just
going to follow the facts wherever they lead ... to hold all
perpetrators who are criminally responsible for January 6 accountable,
regardless of their level, [or]their position...”

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack has
systematically revealed the facts, confirming what Republican Rep. Liz
Cheney stated when she announced she would vote to impeach Donald
Trump:

“On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol
to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of
presidential electoral votes. This insurrection caused injury, death
and destruction in the most sacred space in our Republic...,” Cheney
said.

“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the
mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was
his doing. None of this would have happened without the president,”
she said. “The President could have immediately and forcefully
intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a
greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and
his oath to the Constitution.”

The committee’s investigation has confirmed what Senate Republican
Leader Mitch McConnell stated: “The mob was fed lies. They were
provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to
use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first
branch of the federal government which they did not like.”

This is a question of treason, a charge that should not be made
lightly.

The Constitution defines the crime: “Treason against the United
States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering
to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

Do Trump’s actions meet the test of treason? Professor Carlton F.W.
Larson, author of “On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law”
notes that the framers of the Constitution had “a very specific
image in mind — men gathering with guns, forming an army and
marching on the seat of government.” Larson notes that few events in
American history have matched that description as clearly as the
sacking of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Their purpose assaulted the very heart of democracy: trying to stop
the congressional proceeding that would formally certify the transfer
of power following a democratic election. As Larson noted, “At some
point, you have to say, if that’s not levying war against the United
States, then what on earth is?”

The Justice Department has prosecuted over 800 people who participated
in the attack on the Capitol. The most serious charges were directed
at leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, gangs that
conspired to breach the Capitol in order to stop the proceedings and
possibly kidnap or kill public officials.

They were charged, and some have pled guilty to, seditious conspiracy.
They thought they were doing the bidding of Trump.

Reviewing the evidence in a hearing on whether to honor the subpoenas
of the committee, a federal judge found that Trump had “most
likely” committed at least two crimes: obstructing an official
proceeding and engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
He was not asked to rule on whether Trump had committed treason.

Prosecuting a former president is something that no prosecutor would
take on lightly. A trial would no doubt be a bitter national trauma.

Yet, the very essence of the rule of law is that no person — not a
governor or a general, a billionaire or an oligarch, or even a former
president — is above the law.

Trump’s responsibility for the crimes that occurred is clear. And
worse, he not only has expressed no remorse for his actions, he has
spread the Big Lie relentlessly, and enlisted partisans across the
country to attack election officials, change election laws, and leave
the country more vulnerable to another assault on democracy.

Accountability under the law serves as a deterrence for those who
would seek to violate it in the future. That is why the Justice
Department has prosecuted 800-plus perpetrators with more to come. And
that is why the attorney general must follow the evidence and bring to
justice all those responsible for the attack, including the undeniable
instigator: Donald Trump.

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