{"id":1519988,"date":"2022-06-17T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519988"},"modified":"2022-06-17T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:19:23","slug":"larry-elder-if-trump-committed-insurrection-indict-him-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-elder-if-trump-committed-insurrection-indict-him-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Elder: If Trump Committed \u201cInsurrection,\u201d Indict Him Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flarry-elder-if-trump-committed-insurrection-indict-him-already%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"contributor-img pull-left\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/larryelder\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larry Elder\" class=\"img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/contributor-sm\/authorimages\/larryelder.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Posted: Jun 16, 2022 12:01 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p><em>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>OK, so indict him already.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the Senate floor the first day of the televised Jan. 6 select committee hearings, said: &#8220;(Former President) Donald Trump was at the heart of a coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 elections, to overturn our constitutional order, and inflict permanent damage upon our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Democratic committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., when asked about possible Justice Department charges against Trump, said: &#8220;Attorney General (Merrick) Garland is my constituent, and I don&#8217;t browbeat my constituents. I think that he knows, his staff knows, the U.S. attorneys know what&#8217;s at stake here. They know the importance of it. But I think they&#8217;re rightfully paying close attention to precedent and history, as well as the facts of this case.&#8221; Not exactly full speed ahead.<\/p>\n<p>And the day after the first hearing, committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, said: &#8220;(Criminal referrals to the DOJ are) not our job. Our job is to look at Jan. 6. What caused it and make recommendations after that. &#8230; We don&#8217;t have the authority.&#8221; Committee member Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., disagreed, tweeting, &#8220;The Committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. We will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, on Jan. 6, in his speech before the riots, said, &#8220;I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.&#8221; Two days earlier, according to Alec Schemmel of the Media Research Center: &#8220;A Capitol Police timeline of the days and weeks surrounding Jan. 6 shows former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Department of Defense (DOD) offered the National Guard&#8217;s assistance in the days leading up to the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, validating claims from Trump administration officials that were said to be false by liberal fact-checkers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A first-year law student knows the DOJ has no hope of getting a conviction, even with a partisan Washington, D.C., jury, one of which cut loose Michael Sussmann, a Hillary Clinton lawyer who escaped conviction even though he clearly lied to the FBI. He falsely told the FBI he was acting as a private citizen when he delivered thumb drives with false claims about a Trump-Russia collusion. Yet he billed Hillary Clinton for &#8220;work and communications regarding confidential project&#8221; on the day of the FBI meeting and for the thumb drives he purchased six days earlier. The jury let him walk.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, where were these nouveau proponents of law and order during the bloody and violent summer of 2020?<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, said: &#8220;People are at their wits&#8217; end with the lack of accountability and the ability for police to continue to kill, abuse, maim and torture black people. And so George Floyd&#8217;s murder is just the tipping point.&#8221; She added: &#8220;I think people are upset. They&#8217;re angry. They have been for a long time. I think these protests will last for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They did.<\/p>\n<p>The violent &#8220;insurrections&#8221; that summer resulted in the death of at least 25, thousands of arrests, 2,000 cops injured and, according to Axios, during May 26 to June 8, 2020, &#8220;at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims.&#8221; RealClearInvestigations concluded the riots resulted in &#8220;15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of the false narrative that the police engage in &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; against blacks, cops have abandoned from &#8220;proactive policing,&#8221; a pullback that has caused &#8220;excess&#8221; deaths. A Thomson Reuters data scientist concluded: &#8220;&#8230; if you add up the estimates of murders from the different studies in various cities and time periods, you get something in the neighborhood of 2,500 additional murders <em>on the lowest end<\/em>&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of this, of course, will be dismissed by many as &#8220;whataboutism&#8221; &#8212; a term, tactic and rhetorical device often resorted to by the intellectually dishonest Left when they&#8217;re called out for their hypocrisy, double standards and selective outrage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Posted: Jun 16, 2022 12:01 AM  The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}