The Department of Justice has begun investigating former President Donald Trump as part of a criminal probe surrounding January 6th and his attempt to “overturn the election.”
Washington Examiner says that there are questions being raised regarding Trump’s comments in meetings, as well as what he told other people to do to stop the certification of elections results. One specific line of inquiry entails the so-called “false electors” scheme members of the press have been going nuts over.
A new report claims that the Justice Department is looking into former President Donald Trump in its criminal investigation into his attempts to overturn 2020’s election.
According to sources, prosecutions have started asking witnesses, which include top aides of former Vice President Mike Pence about any conversations that they had with Trump or his lawyers. Washington Post….
…The investigation aims to uncover what the former president told his attorneys and senior officials to do as part of their bid to change the 2020 election outcome, and there are two other paths that could lead to additional scrutiny of Trump, the sources said.
Another is about conspiracy to obstruct or seditiously conspire. It’s similar to the charges against those who stormed Capitol. A second involves Trump being accused of fraud in relation to his attempts to press the DOJ for the reversal of the election’s results.
As I’ve shared before, I just don’t get the whole “false electors” obsession nor do I see any illegality in it. All it entailed was a group of self-chosen “alternative” electors making a purely ceremonial and non-legally biding commitment to vote for Trump if decertification happened. I’m not going to argue with those that find that objectionable, but there’s a difference between objectionable and criminal.
None of the “false electors” ever cast a vote for anything, they didn’t interfere with the election, and the original electors cast their votes for Joe Biden. If that’s what the DOJ is probing, good luck proving a “seditious conspiracy” without any actual attempt at sedition on the record. Furthermore, it is impossible to call something a conspiracy when they were publicly known.
Moving on to the idea that Trump criminally conspired to obstruct a government proceeding, that doesn’t make much sense either. Trump wanted Mike Pence (ex-Vice President) to act in a way he thought was legally permissible by the Electoral College Act. It is not “obstructing” a government proceeding if you intend to use legal mechanisms to reach your goal. Yes, in the end, Pence decided he didn’t believe he had the power, but obviously, Trump thought otherwise. There’s no intent there. Do we plan to make it a crime for politicians to misinterpret the law? This would lead to a lot of problems.
In the end, the DOJ’s pursuit, if the Post’s sourcing is accurate, just seems like a big reach to please the January 6th committee and Democrats at large. Still, it’s probably best to just embrace the chaos at this point. You might be able to just relax and watch the chaos unfold. Let’s see how charging Trump criminally for a bunch of probable non-crimes works out.
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