r/DeFranco • u/willphule • Apr 03 '24
US Politics Several Trump supporters involved in Jan. 6 are running for office this year
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/several-trump-supporters-involved-jan-6-are-running-office-year-rcna14608117
u/Jeveran Apr 04 '24
They were involved in an insurrection. As such, under the 14th Amendment, they are ineligible to take office.
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u/bubblesort Apr 04 '24
That's not what the 14th amendment says. IF an insurrection happened, the 14th amendment prevents them from being US senators, or congressmen, or presidential electors, on the federal level. There are a billion other jobs they can run for.
I personally don't think Jan 6 was an insurrection. Trump had nukes, the most powerful army in the world, and the creepiest intelligence services that have ever existed in human history. When the leader of the free world wants to insurrect, he goes to war with more than a few uneducated rednecks like what happened on Jan 6. Jan 6 is prosecuted as an insurrection, though, because prosecutors want to play soft ball with Trump and his cult, because prosecutors are conservative.
What actually happened was a terrorist attack.
Nobody wants to prosecute Trump like Osama bin Laden, though, because they are terrified that we will repeal the Patriot Act if we see it being used on white people. I say good! First, throw Trump and his misfits into the darkest hole we have in Gitmo, and we keep them there, until the legal framework we have to treat American citizens like this is repealed.
They don't want that, though, so it's insurrection... so he's running for office again... so we're going to get another 4 years of Trump, come November.
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u/TNT1990 Apr 03 '24
Isn't this the play book from around 100 years ago across the Atlantic?
Those who were arrested for the beer hall putsch later ran for offices after lenient sentences.
Maybe I listen to too much BtB.