Jack Smith Poised to Commit Ultimate Act of Election Interference — Trump’s J6 Indictment

Jack Smith Poised to Commit Ultimate Act of Election Interference — Trump’s J6 Indictment

BECKER NEWS

Special Counsel Jack Smith is poised to commit one of the greatest acts of election interference in U.S. history.

The Biden hatchetman is set to charge the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, with conspiring against the nation that he once led to peace and prosperity. The J6 indictment against Biden’s chief 2024 adversary is set up to run interference for a hapless sitting president whom the American people increasingly believe is one of the most corrupt the nation has ever witnessed.

The grand inquisitor is expected to bring forth Civil War era charges against Trump last seen during Reconstruction; namely, Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime for people to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” in the “free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

This antedated statute invokes racial overtones to smear the former president through insinuation. Congress passed the law after the Civil War with the aim of giving federal agents the means to pursue Southern whites, including Ku Klux Klan members who perpetrated acts of terrorism to hinder the voting rights of freed slaves. It has recently been resurrected for the singular purpose of charging J6 defendants; by extension, of course, former President Donald J. Trump.

Another looming charge, conspiracy to defraud the government, is risible given the U.S. government has done nothing but defraud the American people since Donald Trump appeared as a presidential candidate. Trump was accused of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election, an implicit charge of treason for which he was later exonerated. Trump was impeached as president for seeking information on former Vice President Biden’s actions in Ukraine, a request that has borne out to have significant merit. Indeed, then Speaker Pelosi undoubtedly impeached Donald Trump in search of a crime in order to stop any further investigation into the matter.

Most pertinently, Trump was impeached for his alleged incitement of the January 6 riot. Never mind that he told the crowd before the Capitol Riots begin to ‘peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard.’ And that he told the rioters to stand down on social media platforms before he was banned in a transparent act of political collusion. And that the rioters themselves were penetrated by FBI agents months in advance, who subsequently did nothing to stop them. One agent even admitted by text message that there appeared to be no substantive plot to overthrow the government, as the dejected New York Times reported.

Trump was also ultimately exonerated in a Senate trial. Thus, the constitutional process for adjudicating high crimes and misdemeanors that applies to U.S. presidents because they have sovereign immunity as head of state, namely, impeachment, is being completely undermined in a reckless DOJ effort to fling spaghetti against a judicial wall to see if anything sticks.

But most interestingly, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to adjudicate a third potential charge that applies directly to Donald Trump: Obstruction of an official proceeding.

A J6 defendant named Edward Lang recently filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, a type of appeal to the Supreme Court to review a lower court case. As the petition states, the SCOTUS’ decision “will influence scores, if not hundreds, of prosecutions arising from the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

The writ of certiorari suggested that Lang’s appeal could impact the Justice Department’s potential January 6 case against Trump. Lang emphasized the timing of the filing, noting that Trump is currently a leading figure within the Republican Party.

At the heart of the case is the alleged misapplication of 18 U.S. Code 1512 (c)(2), which regards to the obstruction of official proceedings, particularly with a “corrupt purpose.” Prosecutors have argued that the “corrupt purpose” is rioting, purportedly at the behest of former President Donald Trump, with the aim of the president unlawfully retaining power by halting the Electoral College proceedings.

As the legal writ points out, there has been no plausible explanation given by prosecutors about how rioters temporarily obstructing the Electoral College vote count would lead to Donald Trump retaining his office.

This is, of course, exposes the illogical nature of charging a former Commander-in-Chief with participation in an “insurrection.” As we are being asked to believe, then President Donald Trump apparently declined to issue any commands to the U.S. military to carry out a ‘coup,’ and instead directed an unarmed rabble to the capitol building to foment aimless chaos without any means to capture and hold the federal government.

In the film “Knives Out,” private detective Benoit Blanc sums up the problem with the deceptively straightforward narrative that millionaire benefactor Harlan Thrombey had been accidentally poisoned and had slit his own throat.

“I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this donut,” Benoit says with a wry southern drawl. “And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A donut hole in the donut’s hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center — it is not a donut hole at all but a smaller donut with its own hole, and our donut is not a hole at all!”

If you examine the J6 matter closely, it is not what the federal government did on January 6 that raises the most serious questions, it is what it didn’t do that defies belief. If Donald Trump was an existential threat to the country, the capitol would have been flooded with National Guard members, instead of crawling with armed undercover agents, as it was later revealed.

The grave matter of charging a former president for the crime of conspiracy — a capitol crime tantamount to high treason — based foundationally upon political speech was trenchantly summarized by the great French scholar Baron de Montesquieu in “Spirit of the Laws.”

“Nothing renders the crime of high treason more arbitrary than declaring people guilty of it for indiscreet speeches,” Montesquieu wrote. “Speech is so subject to interpretation; there is so great a difference between indiscretion and malice; and frequently so little is there of the latter in the freedom of expression, that the law can hardly subject people to a capital punishment for words unless it expressly declares what words they are.”

“Words do not constitute an overt act; they remain only in idea,” he continued. “When considered by themselves, they have generally no determinate signification; for this depends on the tone in which they are uttered. It often happens that in repeating the same words they have not the same meaning; this depends on their connection with other things, and sometimes more is signified by silence than by any expression whatever. Since there can be nothing so equivocal and ambiguous as all this, how is it possible to convert it into a crime of high treason?”

“Wherever this law is established, there is an end not only of liberty, but even of its very shadow,” he added.

That is what America is now countenancing with the now-expected indictment of Donald Trump for January 6. If the former president can be indicted for his actions that day, then Americans can be indicted for anything.

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(TLB) published this article from Becker News as compiled and written by Kyle Becker

Header featured image (edited) credit:  Smith/Trump/WhoWhatWhy.org

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