Indict Trump? 7/15/21

 Should Trump be indicted? I’m not talking about his Fraudulent, Tax Evading corrupt business practice – we’ll leave that to the NY State AG and the Manhattan District Attorney. Nor his legal problems with Election Interference in the State of Georgia, we’ll leave that to the Fulton County District Attorney, Atlanta Judicial Circuit. I mean here charges of Sedition and Conspiracy to Overthrow the U.S. Government. Credible Reporting by numerous sources inform us that Former Pres. Trump was actively advancing unconstitutional schemes to illegally seize power and remain in Office, after having overwhelmingly lost this Nation’s most secure, and most reviewed and contested Presidential Election.

Reliable, verifiable information now comes to light that in the end days of Trump’s failed Presidency and failed Re-election bid, Trump and his closest acolytes (Giuliani, Kushner, Trump Jr., Eric Trump, et al…), proposed Seditionist, Treasonous, Illegal Plans. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed. Much more thoughtful, reasonable people threatened Resignation and Press Conferences in order to rein-in Trump.

‘I Alone Can Fix It’  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/13/book-excerpt-i-alone-can-fix-it/  By Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker

"Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost. By Michael C. Bender

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumthps-team-struggled-to-tell-him-no-enabled-election-falsehoods

‘A Warning’ Anonymous (Miles Taylor)

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07YKR7PF1&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_hWxWFbS09E7A7&tag=thewaspos09-20&reshareId=CX0SBKPM9QPPTES1XXZ4&reshareChannel=system

Recently, I compared the Trump Regime to the rise of Nazism in 1930’s Germany. Whenever and wherever I see Nazi-like conduct in Public and/or Government, I call it out.  (Please see: June 8 blog):   https://joeywalsez.blogspot.com/2021/06/democracy-itself-is-in-peril-here-at.html

Often, this is seen as over-emotional, overreaction. Personally, I think it ridiculous to claim the mantra of ‘Never Again!’, and then portray such comparisons as overreaction.

Eugene Robinson columnist and an associate editor of The Washington Post, (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2009), recently spoke of such comparisons – ‘I have a rule to columnists not to invoke Nazi’s, and here’s Gen. Mark Milley Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,  saying Trump’s Presidency is at a ‘Reichstag Moment’ with “Brownshirts” in the streets’, and the ‘Gospel of the Fuhrer’. Thank You, Mr. Robinson, and Gen. Milley, for Validation. 

 https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/26/reichstag-fire-manipulating-terror-to-end-democracy/   The Reichstag Warning  Timothy Snyder

Further, Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffery, not a Trump Staffer, but a Pentagon ‘Insider’ none-the-less, said today on MSNBC: When Foreign Intelligence Officials examine Trump’s actions at the time, they would conclude – This guy’s planning a ‘Coup against Democracy’. He also described the Trump years in Washington as a ‘Nearly Illegal Presidency’.

In addition to being awarded the Silver Star, (Twice awarded the Silver Star for exceptional valor in Vietnam combat action as a rifle company commander (1^st Cavalry Division), Gen. McCaffery Co-chaired the United States NATO Counterterrorism Working Group and among other honors, Served as Lt. General on the Joint Chiefs Pentagon staff as the J5Strategic Planner, and also served as a Major General on the Army Pentagon staff as the strategic planner. Point being this Distinguished Patriot is a guy who knows of which he speaks.

Among the Generals was former Lt. Col. Mark Esper, previous Secretary of the Army and then U.S. Secretary of Defense. Trump fired Secretary Esper following Trump’s loss to Biden in November. Defense Secretary Esper has been described as ‘being at odds with the president’ in matters involving deployment of U.S. Military Forces to quell Domestic Disturbance, and invoking the Insurrection Act during Black Lives Matter protests.  ‘We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.” Esper said then.

Had it not been for some mature, sane, reasonable people in positions of responsibility, the Nightmare that was the Trump Presidency could have been much worse. Should Trump be indicted? I think yes, the Congressional Hearings on the January 6^th Insurrection should conclude that Donald J. Trump should be Indicted and Prosecuted for Sedition against this Constitutional Republic, which is The United States of America. Also, there are some GOP Members of Congress on some very thin ice as well, (Hello, Mr. McCarthy). More will be revealed….