John Eastman drafted a plan to overturn the Presidential election illegally he and Trump spoke directly with 300 State Representatives to get them to support the plan and who knows how many US Senators and Congresspeople. www.dailykos.com/…
Joe needs to call this Domestic Terrorism and then enforce the law as Commander and Chief the president does not have a choice about which laws to enforce as part of his office he must enforce them all.
Koch, the Mercers, Bannon, Miller, Trump and all 300 of those state representatives who Trump called about treason and they never reported it to law enforcement plus who knows how many US Senators and Congresspeople are guilty of trying to overturn a lawfully conducted US Presidential election and of trying to illegally give the US Presidency to Donald Trump.
The Patriot Act gives Joe the authority I bet the GOP never thought it would be used against them.
Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. www.aclu.org/...
Do an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of United States
Assaulting police gets most of the crowd outside the Capital building. There is no way all the politicians from Trump on down can claim they did not expect violence from the coup attempt especially after what Trump said.
Donald Trump Jr. warms up the crowd, saying of Republican lawmakers, “If you’re gonna be the zero and not the hero, we’re coming for you.”
“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
“Something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened and we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” www.justsecurity.org/...
Intimidate or coerce a civilian population
Congress the House and Senate and the Vice President were certainly intimidated they ran to the Capital building Bomb Shelter and if the coup succeeded then the majority of US voters who voted for Joe would have been coerced ( I prefer the term forced against our will) into having Trump as President again. Or we would have been forced to take up arms to stop Trump. Thats why Joe has to do something about this now because Trump is running for president again if he looses he will lie say he won and if anything the lesson he has learned is don’t stop the riot. If Joe does not stop Trump now by putting Trump in Prison Trump and every Republican will think why not try and overthrow the US government again at worse a few of us will go to jail for a few months.
Influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion
The plan was aimed at Pence the VP and the Senate to break the law and not recognize. Joe’s votes for president.
To affect the policy of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping
Architect Of The Capitol Outlines $30 Million In Damages From Pro-Trump Riot February 24, 20211:56 PM ET. www.npr.org/...
$30 million more than qualifies as mass destruction.
Every Element of the criteria to charge Trump, The GOP etc etc with Domestic Terrorism has been met.
Now the Fun part the Patriot Act requires no hearing, no trial no conviction ever to seize the assets of anyone involved in terrorism.
Seizure of assets - Sec. 806: Section 806 of the Act could result in the civil seizure of their assets without a prior hearing, and without them ever being convicted of a crime. It is by far the most significant change of which political organizations need to be aware. Section 806 amended the civil asset forfeiture statute to authorize the government to seize and forfeit: all assets, foreign or domestic (i) of any individual, entity, or organization engaged in planning or perpetrating any act of domestic or international terrorism against the United States, or their property, and all assets, foreign or domestic, affording any person a source of influence over any such entity or organization or (ii) acquired or maintained by any person with the intent and for the purpose of supporting, planning, conducting, or concealing an act of domestic or international terrorism against the United States, citizens or residents of the United States or their property or (iii) derived from, involved in, or used or intended to be used to commit any act of domestic or international terrorism against the United States, citizens or residents of the United States, or their property. www.aclu.org/...
Between the Koch’s and Mercers we just might have enough funding for everything we wanted Infrastructure, Green New Deal, ( the original proposals ) plus child care, and paid maternity leave for both parents and dental care for the elderly.
All those Trump hotels once they are fumigated for bed bugs could become low income housing Employers in rich parts of town would love a cheap labor force that did not have to deal with the expense of owning a car since they would be right near all the jobs.
If the Red States riot we cut off their checks The Blue States support the Red States we pay more than we ever get back from Federal Taxes they get more from the Federal Government than they pay in Federal Taxes. It is time we use the power of the purse.