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'A brilliant move': special counsel Jack Smith praised by legal experts for deploying game-changing statute against former US President Donald Trump
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- Jul 22 2023
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Appearing with former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, McQuade noted Smith is using Section 241, a criminal statute that’s part of the Ku Klux Klan Act, that prohibits any conspiracy designed to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
As she explained, "What I think is particularly interesting about the use of either of these statutes and why it might be a really brilliant move by Jack Smith is, I think they can make out this case without proving that Donald Trump knew he had lost the election and for conspiracy to defraud the United States."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_Act
What bothers me the most about Trump is that even if he is put away, the damage he has caused to is irreversible. Our government no longer functions, racist are proud to show who they are, the economy has worsen (ppp loans). It’s a domino effect that I don’t think we will ever be able to heal from.
I think you're misattributing cause and effect here. I grant you that Trump, who is merely a media-gifted narcissistic con-man, did invest a lot of monsters who shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the levers of power w/ the weight of federal authority. But he is merely the symptom of a GOP that has long been broken and deranged -- I would argue the wheels came off that cart during the 2000 SCOTUS coup, but it was made blatantly obvious when McCain picked Palin as his running mate that the adults were no longer in charge in that organization. And it was the corporate media's completely reprehensible clown-show of pretending Trump and the rest of the GOP shit-show was anywhere near respectable that made the racists and fascists comfortable showing their true stripes.