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Should Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson be in prison for trying to frame Donald Trump for a crime he didn’t commit? Of course, they should. It will never happen, as their defenders will deflect any attempt to bring them to justice for their partisan witch hunt by claiming that holding them accountable is the real partisan witch hunt. Nevertheless, they’ve committed an enormous crime, and Donald Trump just called them out for it.
Old Joe Biden wasn’t just the worst president in American history; he was something even worse than that. He was the first chief executive to weaponize the engines of government against his political opponents. He was the first American president to corrupt the justice system and further the corruption of his own political party and the establishment media in pursuit of the destruction of his foremost political foe. He was the first (although some would say the second) president to place the continued existence of America as a free society in serious doubt. He did not, however, do all this alone. He had significant bipartisan help. Now Trump has said that two of Old Joe’s accomplices should be in prison. He is right, of course, but the predictable howls of outrage have already started.
In a “Meet the Press” interview that NBC broadcast on Sunday, Trump charged that as then-Rep. Cheney (R-Hate Trump), Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Hate Trump), and others tried to frame him as the traitorous ringleader of the left’s fictional Jan. 6 “insurrection,” Cheney “did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps. They deleted and destroyed all evidence. And Cheney was behind it. And so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.” Indeed.
In this, Trump didn’t say anything that the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight hadn’t said in a report on the Jan. 6 frame job. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, (R-Ga.) said: “For nearly two years, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Select Committee promoted hearsay and cherry-picked information to promote its political goal – to legislatively prosecute former President Donald Trump.” The report said that the Jan. 6 committee attempted “to promote a political narrative” and charged that it “deleted records and hid evidence” before Republicans gained a majority in the House in 2022.
Specifically, the report stated: “THE SELECT COMMITTEE DELETED RECORDS AND HID EVIDENCE – Reps. Thompson and Cheney failed to turn over video recordings of witness interviews and depositions despite using these recordings in their high-profile, primetime hearings. The Subcommittee recovered over one hundred deleted or password-protected files, including some files that were deleted days before Republicans took the majority. They also hid multiple transcribed interviews of witnesses who had firsthand knowledge of Trump‘s actions on January 6.”
Despite all this evidence of malfeasance, however, Cheney dug down in response to Trump’s statement, claiming it was “a continuation of his assault on the rule of law.” Cheney was actually the one who was engaged in an all-out assault on the rule of law, but it’s a tried and tested tactic of the left: accuse your enemy of what you yourself are guilty of doing.
Cheney went on to repeat the same old lies about Trump: “Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power. He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol, where they attacked police officers, invaded the building, and halted the official counting of electoral votes. Trump watched on television as police officers were brutally beaten and the Capitol was assaulted, refusing for hours to tell the mob to leave.”
The reality was that in Trump’s actual Jan. 6, 2021 speech, he told protestors: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” He did not mobilize “an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol,” and it is both defamatory and extraordinarily reckless of Cheney to repeat these lies.
Like the Japanese soldiers found in the Philippine jungle in the 1970s, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, Cheney stuck to her lies, claiming that her fake Jan. 6 “insurrection” was “the worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nation’s history. Donald Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.” Yet Trump was right. Cheney and Thompson should be jailed because there were no “illegal and unconstitutional actions” committed, and Cheney had every reason to know that.
It won’t happen, but it should. We can only hope that someday there will be a strong and well-functioning justice system in America so that crimes on the magnitude of those Cheney and Thompson committed can indeed be prosecuted as they should be.
unfortunately robert there is no such thing as justice in america . true justice will only come once they have died . the lord jesus christ will judge the living and the dead , you have to believe it otherwise life has no meaning , good and evil are only words with no consequence .
Traitor Cheney shouldn’t be jailed, but how about sending her out of America along with the next shipment of illegal immigrants.
Run these traitors to the public guillotine and finish them.
Them as well as Obama and his whole Cabinet and all those involved in this Coup against Trump should get Life Without Parole and no Pardons or Clemency
^This. Obama kicked 33 russian diplomats out of the USA on 12/29/16…three weeks before he left office and claimed Russians had hacked the DNC server. Shawn Henry testified under oath before Adam Schiff’s committee that there was no evidence that Russians had hacked the DNC server, and he was the only person who had conducted an investigation of that server.
Obama kicked off the entire Russian hoax by lying to the American public.
Trump doesn’t understand how important it is for America’s existence or it could just be that he doesn’t care.
What is the “it” you refer to ?
A little legitimate prosecution of Thompson and Cheney would go a long way into putting the lawfare scumbags like Fat Alvin Bragg and James, Engomoron, Chutkin and J. Smith, out of business.
And any trial of these two must be held outside of D.C.
It wasn’t just Donald Trump that was a target of these criminals, thousands of Americans who had never committed a crime and did nothing more than peacefully protest obvious election fraud were attacked and ruined by these horrible people.
My hope is that Cheney, Raskin, Brooks, Garland, Wray and others are the subject of a lawsuit to personally have to pay for the lives ruined by their Stalinist actions.
Don’t forget to include Fauci in that group.
Jail? No, the lot of them should be drawn and quartered.
A much better idea.
Most of the time the simple solutions are the best ones.
There are those who are so evil that one might desire that they could be executed, for their crimes, multiple times. So is the J6 Select Committee in its entirity; the TV producer who managed the TV travisty; and the many corrupt “puppetters;” Pelosi, Shumer, Biden, Garland, Wray, et al, for starters
I hope the title of this article is rhetorical.
yes, and more should also
Well it may be rather difficult to convict and put these creeps in prison but making them sweat in court over and over for years trying to stay out would be excellent pay back for their antics.
No this should be the way our banana republic police state should work from here on out..
yes …………………
GITMO, 25 to life.
“Should Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson be in prison for trying to frame Donald Trump for a crime he didn’t commit? Of course, they should. It will never happen, as their defenders will deflect any attempt to bring them to justice for their partisan witch hunt by claiming that holding them accountable is the real partisan witch hunt. ”
Great journalism as usual but who cares ? This crap has to stop . If they keep getting away with it , it will continue to happen .
Proof of the new justice system will be the prosecution of these people. Anything less is more of the same.
Absolutely . If not now , when ?
Words matter. At the heart of words, are meanings. The meaning of the word “insurrection” is operationally defined by the 14th Amendment, which clearly referred to the Civil War. Perhaps the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 could qualify as an insurrection. Its leaders were pardoned by George Washington in 1797. No other disturbance ever even approached the level of “insurrection”. Certainly a ruckus of three hours with no guns is not an insurrection. Nevertheless most of its participants were jailed. An idiot with a half-banana hat is not a dangerous terrorist. It’s best description is not even a riot – it’s political theater more than anything else.
As for jailing Liz Cheney, that’s impossible. Congress has “sovereign immunity” even more so than Trump. You’d never get anyone to indict her. Be as angry as you want, then go on to more productive pursuits.
LIZ CHENEY FOR PRISON
1. Liz Cheney had illegal back channel communications with the witness without her lawyers knowledge
2. Hutchinson stated that her lawyer told her to tell the truth
3. After Cheney’s witness tampering, Huchinson changed her testimony committing perjury
4. Thus they needed a scapegoat and went after her attorney who was fully exonerated
5. Cheney engaged in an all-out assault on the rule of law,