Reports yesterday from Vice (and other media) ".... Now facing a real reckoning and lacking a coherent legal strategy, Trump and his allies are using the specter of violence as an extra-legal means of defense. “It’s just an awful moment,” as former GOP congressman David Jolly told HuffPost.” I think ‘mob behavior’ fails in its description of an individual willing to burn down the republic for his own vanities.”
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Trump, Lindsey Graham All but Call for Violent Revolt as Mar-a-Lago Raid Case Intensifies.jpg)
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Things are not going great in Trumpworld. Since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago three weeks ago on suspicion that Donald Trump may have illegally absconded with boxes of classified government documents, every new piece of reporting on the subject has been seemingly more damning than the last. The documents underpinning the search warrant have also done nothing to support Trump's claims that the search was politically motivated, and most attempts to defend former president have been counterproductive at best. With the cards increasingly stacked against Trump, it's perhaps unsurprising that the former president and his key allies now seem to be settling on a more radical approach to avoid accountability: by making vague threats of possible widespread violence in the event that Trump gets prosecuted.
“If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle…there’ll be riots in the streets,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Fox News Sunday evening, referencing a certain controversy you may recall Trump himself making quite a big deal about during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump approvingly shared the clip on his Truth Social website, where he seems to be priming his base for aggressive public unrest, as S.V. Date reported in HuffPost over the weekend. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told the outlet that Trump’s recent remarks over social media are reminiscent of protection rackets used by organized crime syndicates. “Nice country you got here,” Kirschner said, explaining the spirit of Trump's rhetoric. "Be a shame if a civil war destroyed it.”
Lindsey Graham Threatens “Riots in the Streets” if Trump Is Prosecuted
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Leave it to Sen. Lindsey Graham to offer his trademark calm, rational perspective on the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump.
An affidavit unsealed in federal court Friday said the FBI retrieved more than 100 documents labeled “secret” or “top secret” when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. But according to Graham, the real crime would be if Trump were ever to, you know, face consequences for keeping those highly sensitive documents at his infamously unsecured residence.
“If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information...there’ll be riots in the streets,” Graham said in a Sunday appearance on Fox News.
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“Most Republicans, including me, believe when it comes to Trump, there is no law. It’s all about getting him,” Graham told former-Rep.-turned-Fox-News-host Trey Gowdy Sunday. “There is a double standard when it comes to Trump.”
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Trump, who was impeached by the House shortly before leaving office for inciting an insurrection, is separately under investigation for attempting to persuade Georgia officials to add votes to give him enough to win the state in 2020—a probe in which Graham himself has been subpoenaed to testify (he’s fighting the subpoena, hard).
Trump shared the video of Graham on his Truth Social account with no additional commentary.
Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey, said Monday in response to Graham’s prediction that “top republicans would rather torch America in violent riots than lose an election or face any accountability for their crimes.”
“That’s fascist.”
In the weeks since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, federal law enforcement agencies say there’s been a spike in threats against FBI agents, and the federal magistrate judge who signed the warrant, Bruce Reinhart, has been doxxed and threatened.
Reinhart’s synagogue even canceled a Shabbat service due to the threats the judge had received.
Trump, meanwhile, has continued to simultaneously deny and downplay the allegation that he effectively stole critical government documents for his own personal collection. . ."
Posted: 8 hours ago
Lindsey Graham Predicts 'Riots in the Streets' if Trump Is Prosecuted - The New York Times
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