Anyone Keeping Up With the January 6th Riot?

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The PowerPoint. The text messages. More text messages. Etc.

Hopefully all of this turns into the type of charges, and conviction, that make the orange guy ineligible to run for public office ever again.

Wishful thinking. There is no constitutional prohibition against a convicted felon holding federal office. In 1920 Eugene Debs for President from prison. In normal circumstances the party would not allow it, but we are talking about the Republican Party.

Interesting. Most states prohibit convinced felons from voting but they can still be President.

Wishful thinking. There is no constitutional prohibition against a convicted felon holding federal office. In 1920 Eugene Debs ran for President from prison. In normal circumstances the party would not allow it, but we are talking about the Republican Party.

Maybe for regular criminal offences, but I thought I heard something about Sedition or Treason charges coming with a ban on being able to run for or hold public office ??

If you are talking about the US that restriction hasn't been placed on Trump from throwing his hat in the ring in 2024

If you are talking about the US that restriction hasn't been placed on Trump from throwing his hat in the ring in 2024

He can't run in 2024 without admitting he lost in 2020.

This is Trump we are talking about. He can say the aliens got in league with pedophiles to help the democrats manipulate the vote in 2020 and 75 million will still vote for him in 2024.

Maybe for regular criminal offences, but I thought I heard something about Sedition or Treason charges coming with a ban on being able to run for or hold public office ??

I toss and turn all night thinking about Trump.

He's only entitled to two terms, running again is an inherent admission of not winning a second term (yet).

He's only entitled to two terms, running again is an inherent admission of not winning a second term (yet).

The president is elected indirectly through the Electoral College to a four-year term, along with the vice president. Under the Twenty-second Amendment, ratified in 1951, no person who has been elected to two presidential terms may be elected to a third.

Ali Alexander, who founded the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” movement and attended the rally that preceded the Capitol attack, told congressional investigators that he recalls “a few phone conversations” with Rep. Paul Gosar and a text exchange with Rep. Mo Brooks about his efforts in the run-up to Jan. 6, his lawyers confirmed in a late Friday court filing.

Alexander also told the Jan. 6 House select committee that he spoke to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) in person “and never by phone, to the best of his recollection,” his lawyers say.

The description of the testimony comes in a lawsuit Alexander filed to block the committee from obtaining his phone records from Verizon. Alexander says in the suit that the records include contacts with people protected by privileges: religious advisers, people he counsels spiritually and his lawyers. He also indicated that he already shared more than 1,500 text messages with investigators, in addition to sitting for an eight-hour deposition. The Brooks text, he indicated, is among the texts he turned over.
Alexander’s testimony underscores the degree to which the select committee continues to probe the roles of their Republican colleagues in efforts to promote former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud — and their potential support for fringe figures who helped gather people in Washington on Jan. 6, the day Congress was required to certify the 2020 election results.

The panel hasn’t formally requested testimony from any of the GOP lawmakers yet but has continued to ask witnesses about Gosar, Biggs, Brooks and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who helped push a strategy to use the Department of Justice to promote the fraud claims.