It’s been 3 years since Trump’s Jan 6 attack: Why is Trump NOT already in PRISON?!

Greatest miscarriage of justice of our lives!

This Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s Jan 6 terrorist attack on our Capitol to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election. Since then, more than 1,240 people had been arrested in connection with the attack and nearly 500 of them have already been sentenced to prison—with the most dangerous MAGA terrorists receiving 20 plus year prison terms.

But who still walks free?! Donald Trump, the man who radicalized his supporters with lies about a stolen election, called them to Capitol for Jan 6, promising a “wild” time, and who explicitly sent his angry followers that day to the Capitol—despite knowing they were armed—to “stop the steal.”

This is the gravest miscarriage of justice in our lifetimes. Period. And our Republic is less safe given the failure of Attorney General Merrick Garland to swiftly prosecute Trump. Instead, as the reporting tells us, Garland delayed any investigation into Trump’s criminal liability for at least a year. The thought of this fills me with anger and disgust.

There’s no disputing that the Jan 6 attack was a Donald J. Trump production from start to finish. In fact, the Jan 6 House committee’s final report put it perfectly: “The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”

If Trump simply accepted he lost the 2020 election, there would have been no Jan 6 attack. That is indisputable.

But Trump refused to accept the loss and instead—as we all witnessed firsthand—began spewing lie after lie that the 2020 election was stolen and rigged. In fact, Trump began to plant the seeds that the election was illegitimate months before November 2020, given polls at the time showed him losing to Biden by an average of 7 points.

And during the September 2020 presidential debate, Trump spoke directly to his extremist supporters telling them he made need them with his comment, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” As a reminder, The Proud Boys did in fact “stand by” and when Trump signaled that Jan 6 was the day for action, they organized on behalf of Trump to stop the Jan 6 certification. Various leaders of the organization have since been convicted in federal court of Seditious Conspiracy along with other crimes and sentenced to decades in prison.

We know from the evidence presented under oath at the Jan 6 House committee hearings that Trump planned the Jan 6 attack as his final back up plan if his behind the scenes coup attempt failed.  The most glaring evidence of this came in the early morning of Dec. 19, 2020, after a six-hour meeting in the Oval Office with his top administration lawyers battling the likes of Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani to explore if there was any legal related means to stop the Jan 6 certification that was just two weeks away.

When that meeting concluded, it was clear to Trump there were no legal way to prevent the Jan 6 certification. That is why minutes after it ended, Trump sent his infamous tweet at 1:42 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2020, again repeating the election was stolen and then calling his supporters to Washington, DC writing, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th," adding, “Be there, will be wild!"

As we learned from  Jan 6 hearings, that tweet “would galvanize his followers” and was cited by federal prosecutors as being a key reason why some like The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys began to plan a violent attack on Jan 6 in Trump’s name.

Over the next two weeks, Trump would repeatedly spew lies about the election to further radicalize his supporters in advance of Jan 6. For example, on December 22, he tweeted: “THE DEMOCRATS DUMPED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS IN THE SWING STATES LATE IN THE EVENING. IT WAS A RIGGED ELECTION!!!”

On January 5, 2021, the day before the attack, Trump tweeted: “Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

And on the morning of Jan 6 with an angry mob gathering, Trump repeatedly posted election lies and urged supporters to “stay strong”, for example, tweeting, “THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, OUR COUNTRY, NEEDS THE PRESIDENCY MORE THAN EVER BEFORE…STAY STRONG!”

Overall, in the months after the election leading to Jan 6, Trump radicalized supports with his tweets by falsely calling the election “rigged” 57 times, writing that the election was “stolen” or that the Democrats tried to “steal” it 57 times and declaring that he “won” the presidential election 25 times. (That doesn’t even include Trump’s numerous TV appearances claiming the election was stolen.)

Then came Jan 6. With thousands of Trump supporters angrily chanting “Fight for Trump,” Trump delivered a speech designed to incite the crowd. He began by repeating lies that the election was stolen such as “in Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters,” and “we will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we've been forced to believe.”

Trump then urged his rabid supporters to take action with lines like, “We're stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot and we have to live with that for four more years,” adding, “We're just not going to let that happen.” And other such as: “They want to come in again and rip off our country. We can’t let it happen.”  Trump then directed them to “to walk down to the Capitol,” vowing to march with them.

As Trump knew, at 1PMET on Jan 6 there was no peaceful way to not “let it happen.” The only option was violence--and that is exactly what Trump wanted.

That is backed up with Trump’s actions that followed during the MAGA terrorist attack. For example, at 2:20PMET after watching the brutal attack on the Capitol playing out, Trump incited his supporters even more by tweeting:  “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution."  That tweet further angered and animated the crowd as documented by the Jan 6 hearing.

And any doubt that Trump wanted the violence we saw on Jan 6 is confirmed by his refusal to call off the attack for more than three hours despite personal pleas by his family, Chief of staff and even then GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy. For example, as Trump’s own daughter Ivanka testified before the Jan 6 committee, during the attack she had emotionally and repeatedly pleaded with her father to issue a statement telling his supporters to stop, but he refused.

The attack Jan 6 happened for one reason: Donald Trump. This was part of his illegal plan to stay in power despite losing.  Yet here we are three years since Jan 6 and Trump still walks free while hundreds of his followers sit in federal prisons for the crimes they committed at his urging and on his behalf.

Again, the thought of this fills me with anger and disgust.