DC AG Racine: ‘I’m Looking At A Charge Under The DC Code Of Inciting Violence’ | Andrea Mitchell

Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine tells Andrea Mitchell that given the rhetoric from President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and others ahead of the Capitol Hill riots, he's "looking at a charge under the DC code of inciting violence, and that would apply where there's a clear recognition that one's incitement could lead to foreseeable violence." Aired on 01/11/2021.
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DC AG Racine: 'I'm Looking At A Charge Under The DC Code Of Inciting Violence' | Andrea Mitchell

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    1. Trump looks at his supporters and knows that there’s no point in having a dog and barking yourself then he sets his dogs on democracy if a dog gets killed there’s plenty more stray dogs wandering around looking for something to feed their hatred.

    2. @Lauren Konno yeah, law enforcement doesn’t want to waste time and resources. That’s why the last Special Prosecutor team didn’t waste time to charge a sitting president with any crime. AG Racine also needs to know for certain what a former president may be immune of as for criminality . And lastly, can he get a clear indication from Joe Biden that he won’t pardon him in about four or eight years? Right?

    3. @Proud America not necessarily. But civil lawsuits will make him poor. That’s why he can’t pardon himself anymore since it will serve as admitting guilt.

    1. DC isnt a state, Federal laws apply. At this rate though Trump may run out of time before he can resign. Honestly, I think he hasn’t done it yet because he doesn’t trust Pence to pardon him. And he’s not wrong.

    2. @Marian Lincoln What sedition ? Fake sedition? Everything liberals do is fake! Fake News, fake impeachment, fake russian collusion, fake Americans!

  1. The shocking part of all this, from trump’s nomination to today, is the almost unimaginable stupidity of 50% of America.

    1. @Abram Carroll Are you serious? That was the most nonsense I’ve seen in a long time! Being morally bankrupt is a life void of God not liberal or democrat!

    2. @dotunn I said it 4+ years ago. You tell people they got a raw deal, you point out someone to blame & they buy it. Naziism 101.

    1. @Celtica They will have a pre-blanket pardon written, it might hold up especially if the Trump mob becomes violent and threatens the weak af right wing lapdogs at DOJ

    2. Crossing everything I can !! My dog I loathe that pos ! 🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿🤞🏼🤞🏿

    1. It’s tricky, while it seems certain that Rudy could be charge and convicted for using the line “trial by combat” it’s not as clear legally for Trump, his lawyers could easily defend him by saying that he didn’t use the word “fight” in context of using physical force but in the same way that you would say, you are going to fight this in court, so fighting by means of words, and if you pay attention Trump was very careful with his words, he said to march on the Capitol and “cheer” on the people in there, that again could be defended as him meaning to let your voices be heard.

      I really hope he doesn’t get away with this, but legally speaking Trump might be able to get away with it. When it comes to Don jr, I didn’t see his whole speech, but from the clip that was shown on this video, he might also be safe.

    1. Yes, and I thank the lord the national guard weren’t there already because the coup-troops could then have posed as more of those ‘anonymous federal forces’ which Trump inserted among heavily armed troops during the George Floyd protests, including Lafayette Square.

    1. @Glori from NJ he’s headed to n.ireland he already requested permission to land at there airport about a week ago.

  2. Michael Cohen: “t’rump speaks in code. He never says the crime out loud. That’s what they do. They make sure you know what they mean, but don’t ever say it.”

    1. @Deborah Freedman You mean like, ‘one nation, under um uhh.. you know- the thing’

    2. @Colino Deani Yup. Shocking that he can be so subtle with his words given he only knows a total of 200 of them! 😅😂

    3. @topgrain interesting, I understood in the 80s he was a con artist after reading little of his first book. Now I’ve read his niece’s book. Everything she writes is so obvious, he’s a narcissist and fascist racist. He can’t leave soon enough for me. I’d like to see him removed yesterday!

    1. And apparently he’s off looking at the little bit of wall he built on the boarder. He is insane, clutching at straws there.

    2. Yeepee , good riddance to effing bad rubbish..
      the world is a much better place once he’s go to camp delta gitmo bay along with his enablers and grifting family..

    1. They’re not going to show us all the cards. They have video cameras all over the capital. They need to hold onto evidence for court so defendants can’t cry foul😎

  3. The facts have been shown, plain as day, they are absolute, charge everyone on that stage and ultimately lock them up!

  4. The “idea” that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted is just that – an idea. It is not law. It is not a provision of the US Constitution. The reason we have a Vice President is so someone can take over if the president is indisposed.

  5. Hawley raised his clinched fist in solidarity. When the violence started, he cowered in the basement waiting for the all clear.

    1. When Congress was reconvened, his stuck his stupid hand up to continue supporting the false claims of invalidating the election results . He learned nothing.

  6. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” he says, cowering behind bulletproof glass before his own fanatical supporters.

    1. After he cons them saying he will be with them . He sat on his fat, safe,rear and sent them to do his dirty work. Why can’t they see him for what he is? And then, the next day he says, NO, I did NOT tell you to break the law. I have news for you followers. Dump cannot give you permission to break the law, he does not have that power. Please good R.s, Dump is the Conman, do not listen or believe him.

  7. They weren’t riled up “at the rally” they had planned an attack!, they came wearing combat gear, gas masks, had weapons and cable ties to take prisoners.

  8. Evil succeeds when good people do nothing.
    “A failed coup that goes unpunished is just a training exercise.”

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