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That was a notable headline in today's WAPO.
It's easy to smugly say....."the price of loyalty", but of course, it is more complicated than that.
The Big Lie is at the root of all those convicted believers. They believed it. They couldn't prove it. Nobody has. But they believed it.
And worse, they committed crimes in advancing the Big Lie.
And, as we know, many of those convicted blame Don Trump for their predictment. They think he conned them. And now they are on the hook for their own bad behavior in believing and acting upon that con.
Here's a taster of the article. You can read the whole enchilada in your subscription to the Washington Post:
"Trump’s 2020 crusade has led to 700 years in prison sentences"
"Tarrio and other high-profile defendants involved in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have often confronted their legal fate by pointing a finger at Trump. Tarrio’s lawyer called his client a “scapegoat for Donald J. Trump and for those in power.” A lawyer for fellow Proud Boy Joseph Biggs said that the group’s “commander-in-chief” — Trump — “sold them a lie.” A lawyer for a third Proud Boy, Zachary Rehl, argued that “certainly believing the commander-in-chief and heeding his call should yield some measure of mitigation” in Rehl’s sentencing.
Trump’s having played at least some role in so many people going to prison for so many years has thus far been treated gingerly by his fellow Republicans. That’s in part because they’ve shied away from judging his actions too harshly for fear of alienating the Trump-backing base.…….Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign toyed with the idea of attacking Trump on these terms.
A spokeswoman for DeSantis (R) repeatedly advanced the idea that Trump had landed supposedly unsuspecting people in prison. One post she promoted accused Trump of “a multi-year grift based on a lie that bilked millions of Trump supporters out of more than $250 million of their hard-earned money and got hundreds jailed.”
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So there is that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0-crusade-has-led-700-years-prison-sentences/
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0-crusade-has-led-700-years-prison-sentences/
It's easy to smugly say....."the price of loyalty", but of course, it is more complicated than that.
The Big Lie is at the root of all those convicted believers. They believed it. They couldn't prove it. Nobody has. But they believed it.
And worse, they committed crimes in advancing the Big Lie.
And, as we know, many of those convicted blame Don Trump for their predictment. They think he conned them. And now they are on the hook for their own bad behavior in believing and acting upon that con.
Here's a taster of the article. You can read the whole enchilada in your subscription to the Washington Post:
"Trump’s 2020 crusade has led to 700 years in prison sentences"
"Tarrio and other high-profile defendants involved in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have often confronted their legal fate by pointing a finger at Trump. Tarrio’s lawyer called his client a “scapegoat for Donald J. Trump and for those in power.” A lawyer for fellow Proud Boy Joseph Biggs said that the group’s “commander-in-chief” — Trump — “sold them a lie.” A lawyer for a third Proud Boy, Zachary Rehl, argued that “certainly believing the commander-in-chief and heeding his call should yield some measure of mitigation” in Rehl’s sentencing.
Trump’s having played at least some role in so many people going to prison for so many years has thus far been treated gingerly by his fellow Republicans. That’s in part because they’ve shied away from judging his actions too harshly for fear of alienating the Trump-backing base.…….Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign toyed with the idea of attacking Trump on these terms.
A spokeswoman for DeSantis (R) repeatedly advanced the idea that Trump had landed supposedly unsuspecting people in prison. One post she promoted accused Trump of “a multi-year grift based on a lie that bilked millions of Trump supporters out of more than $250 million of their hard-earned money and got hundreds jailed.”
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So there is that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0-crusade-has-led-700-years-prison-sentences/
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0-crusade-has-led-700-years-prison-sentences/