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Sunday, January 10, 2021
How Trump could be held legally accountable for inciting Capitol riot
asked specifically if
the speakers at the event --
including president Trump --
might face some sort
of investigation
for the things they said
leading up to the violence.
The U.S.
attorney said "All"..."
issues are being looked at.
We're examining all of this.
We're taking nothing
off the table."
He was pressed on it twice,
and both times,
he gave the same answer,
which certainly suggests
that they were considering
whether any of the speakers
had a legal jeopardy,
in terms of incitement to riot,
which is a charge.
-If you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have
a country anymore. -DJT
-Officials sent a very
strong signal on Friday
that they do not intend
to pursue a case
against President Trump
or any of the speakers on stage, for comments made, for incendiary remarks
made before the violence began.
-We're going to the Capitol,
and we're going to try
and give our Republicans --
the weak ones,
because the strong ones
don't need any of our help --
we're going to try and give them
the kind of pride and boldness
that they need
to take back our country.
-One of the challenges
with charging anyone
with incitement to riot is that the First Amendment
case law on it is fairly protective
of the speaker,
because there's
a general understanding that people use rhetoric and
hyperbole in political speech,
and you shouldn't necessarily
view that as strictly literal.
So, there are some legal cases
and standards that would apply that would suggest it is hard
to bring such a charge.
And I think --
So, I think what you're seeing
is a kind of delicate
walk-back of the notion
that they are pursuing
the president in some fashion.
-We're in.
We're going in.
-One of the things
they described as,
they "need to go after, first, the alligators
closest to the boat,"
Is how one prosecutor put it.
And by that, they mean
the people
who did the most violence
inside the Capitol.
I think what's going
on right now is, the Justice Department
is doing two things at once.
They are scrambling to gather
as much evidence as possible as quickly as they can, to identify them,
build a case, and charge them.
And they announced a handful
of arrests again today, as they're doing that.
The other part, though --
and I think it's more sort of
the politics of chaos,
in a way --
is that they are trying to show that they are really on
top of the ball, now, because there are serious
questions about, how is it that, in one of the most well-guarded
and secure cities in the world,
such chaos reigned in such an important part
of the government?
It's interesting that,
the last days
of the Trump administration,
the Justice Department is doing
everything it can to show how seriously it is taking this,
and how aggressively
it's pursuing these.
But the reality is,
the bulk of this work,
in terms of prosecuting people,
is going to be handled
by the Biden administration.
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Governor Schwarzenegger's Message Following this Week's Attack on the Capitol
