• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Forswearing the states and joining the Confederacy was a provable action though.

    You can’t prove Trump engaged in insurrection without a conviction, and, again, “Well, just LOOK at him!” is not a valid legal argument.

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      1 year ago

      We also had congressional investigations and hearings about January 6th, so there is a lot of legwork there that shows his behavior–with sworn testimony. It’s not like there’s not plenty of public evidence, including tweets and voice and video recordings of Trump himself.

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        1 year ago

        But, again, there are millions of folks out there who say his actions were justified. You and I both know they weren’t, but that’s not an objective truth. A court ruling is. You are guilty or not guilty. You are liable or not liable.

        If we’re going to tell someone “Sorry, you don’t qualify anymore…” there needs to be an impartial judicial ruling that’s the basis for it, again, like the Cowboys for Trump guy. Convicted for 1/6, then court disqualification.

        I don’t believe he would have been disqualified if he hadn’t been previously convicted.