There will be riots
The move now is to threaten violence if the criminal Trump is treated like the criminal he is.
Amid growing fears about political violence in the US, a senior Republican senator predicted “riots in the streets” if Donald Trump is prosecuted for mishandling classified information.
For “mishandling” top secret classified information by stealing it and keeping it in his hotel, including leaving it lying around in the open while fake Rothschilds wandered around the place.
Graham said: “Most Republicans, including me, believe when it comes to Trump, there is no law. It’s all about getting him. There’s a double standard when it comes to Trump.”
Really. What other ex-president has stolen whole boxes of top secret documents and stashed them in their resort hotels while Russian spies wandered in and out? Name one.
Alleging a failure by the FBI to investigate Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, Graham added: “I’ll say this, if there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle … there’ll be riots in the streets.”
Hunter Biden is a sleaze and Joe Biden absolutely should have done whatever it took to keep him Hunter from profiteering off his Joe’s job, but the fact remains that the two items are radically different.
Law professor and former White House ethics chief Richard Painter referred to Trump supporters’ deadly attack on the Capitol when he said: “A senator who calls for ‘riots in the streets’ if Trump is indicted should be expelled from the Senate. He’s inciting January 6 all over again.”
The president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, said the “prediction that violence may follow any prosecution of the former [president] may not qualify legally as incitement but it is irresponsible all the same as it will be seen by some as a call for violence. Public officials are [obliged] to call for the rule of law.”
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Trump indicated his approval, posting video of Graham’s remarks to Truth Social, the platform Trump set up after being suspended from Twitter over the Capitol attack.
Of course he did.
Zachary Taylor?
Oh, wait, he had the good grace to die in office. Trump could’ve learned from him.
Riots in the streets would be helpful in refining the electorate.
‘Oligarchy tempered by riot’ was a descriptor of England in the 19th C, particularly in the period before the Great Reform Bill of 1832, which pruned a fair bit of the corruption (‘pocket boroughs,’ ‘rotten boroughs’ and such) out of the parliamentary scene; though leaving the unelected poohbahs in that Temple of Privilege called the House of Lords.
Riots in the streets can help bring down an autocracy (eg Russia, 1917) or alternatively, set one up (Germany 1932.)
Riots in the streets are why the Dems lost seats in the house and were stuck at the precarious 50-ish plus one in the Senate… I don’t think that’s necessarily the useful threat Lindsey thinks it is…
Blood Knight, BLM riots worked out so well for Democrats, and created so much public goodwill, that it would be terrible if Republicans wised up and stole this successful tactic.
Would it be irresponsibly close to incitement to inquire about the availability of the 15th Hussars for their services in connexion with potential riots?
Insight: Seeing that a prediction of a bad outcome makes it more likely to happen …
Irony: … while continuing to say that trans teens will kill themselves if they don’t get cross-sex hormones
I really, really want to hear some reporter ask Graham, “Senator, will you yourself be rioting in the streets?”