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Federal judge goes there, questions why Trump didn't move sooner to tell insurrectionists to go home
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Monday January 10, 2022 · 8:24 PM EST
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Earlier on Monday, a federal judge did something doesnt portend very well for The Messiah, Lord Donald Trump, The Most Merciful. In a hearing about three civil suits seeking to hold Trump and others responsible for the insurrection at the Capitol, a federal judge took a line of questioning that ought to have Trump and Trumpworld quaking in their boots.
Specifically, federal district judge Amit Mehta dared to ask whether Trumps failure to immediately denounce the violence of Jan. 6 was a sign that he approved of the horror that unfolded that day. The fact that a judge is even asking those questions in open court at all is telling, to put it mildly.
During the hearing, Mehta noted that it took Trump some two hours to condemn the violence. From the looks of it, Mehta was hard pressed to find a good-faith explanation for such a long delay.
"The words are hard to walk back," Mehta said. "You have an almost two-hour window where the President does not say, 'Stop, get out of the Capitol. This is not what I wanted you to do.'"
"What do I do about the fact the President didn't denounce the conduct immediately ... and sent a tweet that arguably exacerbated things?" the judge asked. "Isn't that, from a plausibility standpoint, that the President plausibly agreed with the conduct of the people inside the Capitol that day?"
It got even worse for Trumpworld from there. Mehta asked one of the lawyers arguing against the lawsuits why Trump remained silent if his calls to go to the Capitol were misinterpreted.
Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall claimed that Trump shouldnt be held liable because everything he said was part of his official duties as president. Mehta came pretty close to telling Binnall that was hogwash. Mehta not only asked if Binnall expected him to could ignore everything Trump said in its entirety, but scoffed at the suggestion that a speech before Congress is the equivalent of a campaign stump speech.
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elias7
(3,994 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)YP_Yooper
(291 posts)Pretty much sums it up. If the rioters stopped the certification, Trump would remain in office. He waited in hopes that would happen.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)They would have been an excuse to declare an emergency or perhaps martial law. That would have stopped the certification.
YP_Yooper
(291 posts)Maybe that was the ace up the sleeve... Congress stopped in their certification, then explosions in both party HQ...
That's a scary thought
SWBTATTReg
(22,093 posts)other adversaries attacked the US? rump would have waited on the sidelines poohing and shushing the military from responding in defending the Country. rump would have let them attack us...
Aussie105
(5,366 posts)Someone standing on shore near a life preserver does nothing for 3 hours.
Man in river drowns.
How is that not culpable negligence at the very least?
Unless it was deliberate, and the man on shore pushed the man in the water in to start with?
Then it becomes murder.
More people need to delve into the fact TFG did nothing - other than watch on TV.
Takket
(21,549 posts)Duh