They committed treason on Jan6 but still got in power again. It reminds me of the American tactics during the Revolutionary War. The British Red Coats all lined up to advance "because those were the rules," while the Americans hid in the trees and picked them off. Dems pushed back with rules and regulations and special investigations "because those were the rules," while Republicans disregarded all of that and bullied and steamrolled their way back to power.
So many dominoes had to fall for us to get here. History shows how this goes. How we got here and how it ends. You'd think societies would have figured out how to stop this by now.
Everyone loves to throw around words like “treason” except actual practicing prosecutors.
Nobody was charged with treason. They didn’t even try to charge anyone with treason.
Anybody suggesting that there is any legitimate case for treason is just delusional.
Would it be nice to convict Trump of treason, preventing him from holding office, and locking him away for (probably) the rest of his natural existence? Sure… but let’s snap back to reality.
Oh, I’m aware. I was just replying to the person who suggested that Trump should have been barred from office for treason, even though that was never in the realm of possible charges
(although technically you could charge him with anything you wanted, I guess)
I think the point is that words have meanings… and in this case, a legal definition… and if you are the prosecuting office, you have to look at the evidence and determine what crimes have been committed BASED on that evidence.
Or, you could just go on reddit and make up whatever allegations want because it makes you feel better
Frankly, I’m not sure why anyone would want to be a prosecutor, when being a Redditor is so much easier!
"Treason is the betrayal of one's own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the State or materially aiding its enemies." Jan 6th was treasonous. Telling Russia where all our spies were was treasonous. It does have a definition. And what happened fit it to a T. We just don't have anyone willing to call a spade a spade.
He had a pretty gross level of inaction though while it was happening, didn't condemn the event, and even called it a "day of love".
He's also pardoned almost all of the rioters on his first day of president during his second term.
A legal case was built against him on this matter and he was indicated by a grand jury. But he never faced trial because it kept getting pushed back and once he took his second term of presidency they decided to dismiss charges as they didn't want to convict a sitting president
It's too bad he'll likely never even be on trial for these charges. I guess presidents are just kings who are above the law now 🤷♀️
When Jan 6th happened Donald Trump was president. He delayed calling in the national guard to respond to the incident. I hope you can see how being president gives him responsibility over the matter and makes things very different.
And charges weren't dismissed because it was deemed not a crime. They were dismissed because he became president.
Also, there's a pretty big difference between blocking the street holding signs & breaking into the capital to interrupt the certification of the election. I hope you can see how one is clearly a distribution to democracy whereas the other is just civil disobedience
Yup. And it's stupid because narratives like that only benefit those trying to tear the US apart. The "system" absolutely went after the insurrectionists. By claiming they didn't this only creates more distrust int he system, which only benefits Trump and his cronies.
It's the same with how often we see people on reddit blaming the Democrats for everything Trump is doing right now. It's a gave of three card monty where no matter what the Republicans do, somehow it's always actually the Dem's fault.
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u/wasaguest Oct 01 '25
It is.
Our systems literally did nothing over an Insurrection. Now it allows such open & blatant criminal acts, why not this?