By Aaron Miller-
Donald Trump’s call at a Texas rally for his backers to ready massive protests against “radical, vicious, racist prosecutors” could constitute obstruction of justice or other crimes and backfire legally on Trump, say former federal prosecutors.
Trump’s attack is being been viewed as an attempt to obstruct separate federal and state investigations into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and into his real estate empire.
Trump’s recent rant during a January 30 rally, in which he implored his followers to launch the “biggest protests” ever in three cities should prosecutors criminally charge him for any offences. Trump is still under investigation for his attempt to overturn Biden’s victory, or for business tax fraud.
Trump’s recent comments in which he promises to pardon those charged for attacking the Capitol on 6 January last year in hopes of thwarting Biden’s certification by Congress.
Trump’s critics believe the former president is panicking over legal troubles, and desperate to escape the potential legal consequences of any criminal findings that emerge from the investigations. The former U.S president high fan base in certain parts of America are evident and even growing in some quarters, but his actions of January 2021 is hard to justify.
Lawyers queuing up to express confidence that Trump’s recent words can legally be interpreted to amount to an intimidation of witnesses and the grand jury.
Allegations that Trump used “fraudulent or misleading” asset valuations to obtain loans and tax benefits is deepening the legal woes facing the former president. Trump and his lawyers have described the allegations as politically motivated.“
Former US attorney in Georgia, Michael Moore, told The U.S Guardian today that the former president is calling for vigilante justice , and potentially intimidating witnesses against testifying.
Felony charges could be looming for Trump. Investigators and journalists generally believe the anxiety attached to the potential investigations could be causing his erratic behaviour.
Trump’s first election Victory
Trump’s original election victory that took him to the White House was one of the most remarkable because he was an outsider with the bookies. He made his views clear that he would allege fraud if he lost the 2016 elections- an election most observers expected Hilary Clinton to win. His believe the U.S elections were stolen runs deep in his veins, and he has many of his supporters convinced of this fact. He wants fight for the office of the president again in 2024.
Whilst investigators and Trump’s critics are closing up on him, the former president is desperate to have another bite at the cherry and run the U.S again. The fact that the 2021 protests which led to the insurrection at Capitol Hill were eventually fatal, yet it took place under the incitement of Donald Trump, is itself telling. His inciting of the crowed was the driving force behind the insurrection of 2021, could mean his public cry for wide protests in the event of lawful criminal proceedings,
The Trump saga in relation to the 2021 is still one of the most hot stories still evolving but sure to explode at some point into decisive and consequential outcomes.
A report released today confirming details of Trump’s contentment with developments as the insurrectionists bulldozed their way into Congress where congressmen and women had met to certify the election victory of Joe Biden.
‘Look at all of the people fighting for me,’ Trump said, according to Grisham, who also served as chief of staff to first lady Melania Trump. At one point, the president was confused why staffers weren’t as excited as he was watching the unrest unfold.
Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg testified before the House committee investigating Jan. 6 that staff wanted the president to take immediate action to address the violence consuming the Capitol, but Trump refused.
‘Is someone getting to potus? He has to tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed,’ Alyssa Farrah Griffin, a former White House communications official, texted Ben Williamson, an aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
‘I’ve been trying for the last 30 minutes. Literally stormed in outer oval to get him to put out the first one. It´s completely insane,’ Williamson wrote back.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., then called Ivanka Trump, pleading that the president ‘ask people to leave.’
‘We´re working on it,’ she replied.
The former president will put up a fight, true to his combative proclivities, but potentially devastating to his own interests when all is finally played out.
Lawyers are working day and night in an effort to have Trump properly nailed so he cannot run for election again, and his supporters desperately want to see him back in the White House, insisting him to be a more trust worthy and straight president that President Biden whom many strongly view as a puppet of a wider establishment with a sinister or less favourable direction for the American people.
Biden gave one of the most inspiring speeches when he was elected in January 2021, calling for unity and urging the American people to do what is right, even when it is difficult to do so.