The Ties That Bind trump To the Insurrection

There's another hearing this Tuesday from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection.

This one is a big fcking deal because this hearing will focus on  the extremist groups - Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and the QAnon conspiracists - and those groups connection to Trump associates, especially Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.

The House committee has already established strong cases that donald trump knew - was at least informed by multiple people in his own circle - that he lost the 2020 Presidential election; that trump likely committed wire fraud by falsely fund-raising for legal issues that went to other people's pockets (his own especially) to the tune of $250 million; that trump was working to nullify or interfere with election results; and that trump knew that the rally he held that January 6th before the riot overwhelmed Capitol Hill was armed and ready to riot on his behalf.

Any one of these would be reason enough for the Department of Justice to file charges of some kind against trump. What would really tie everything together would be proof that the two halves of this insurrection - the one half (trump) that planned it and encouraged it, and the second half (the rioters) who acted on the plan - were in direct communication and supporting each other (the Conspiracy, which I think falls under this US Code). 

Without legal proof of a conspiracy, trump's lawyers could well argue that trump himself had nothing to do with the violence that took lives and destroyed property (and nearly wrecked the federal government itself). But if you can prove the plotters hiding back in their hotel rooms at the Willard were coordinating with the leaders of the actual rioters, they're all - trump to Stone to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers - linked together. trump may not have known the specifics of what was happening - the way Don Vito never really knows how Luca Brasi took care of that movie producer at the beginning of The Godfather (that poor horse) - but trump asked for something to happen to overturn a legal election and he benefitted from that crime in some way.

Or as they discussed in the Congressional hearings in Godfather Part II, there were a lot of buffers! Hence the need to find a direct link like Frankie Pentangeli between the street soldiers of the Mafia to mob boss Michael Corleone.

Find that link from donald trump to the Proud Boy street soldiers - be it Roger Stone or Steve Bannon or Michael Flynn - and you've got a criminal case against trump to condemn him to federal prison.

Here's hoping today the House committee proves trump's dirty fingerprints were all over this insurrection.