Oath Keeper sedition indictments are an 'ominous sign' for Donald Trump: former federal prosecutor
Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner claimed the seditious conspiracy charges filed against eleven members of the Oath Keepers pararamilitary organization on Thursday should worry Donald Trump and former advisor Steve Bannon.
Speaking with host Lindsey Reiser, Glenn Kirschner was asked if the rarely-filed sedition charges would have a ripple effect that couldswamp the former president.
According to the former prosecutor, there was a direct link between the Oath Keeper's action on Jan 6th and Trump's comments that could come back to haunt the former president.
"It's really important because when you read the details of this 48-page indictment, it has echoes of what Steve Bannon said in the run-up to January 6th," Kirschner began. "You know: 'it will be swift, it will be moving, it will be unlike anything we have ever seen before.' He was exactly right. So doesn't that raise the question, what did he know?"
"But for Donald Trump, I think the parallels are even more dramatic with respect to Donald Trump's statements and conduct, when we compare it to what we see in this indictment," he continued. " For example, why did the Oath Keepers choose January 6th to come to the Capitol? Because Donald Trump said, 'come to D.C.. on January 6th, we'll be wild.' Why did they name their communications channel, the 'Stop the Steal' channel? Well, because Donald Trump incessantly tweeted out, 'stop the steal.'"
"Why did they march on the Capitol after the rally? Because Donald Trump said, 'now we're going to the Capitol, and I'll be right there with you,'" he continued. "Why did they, quote, 'fight like hell' once they got to the Capitol? Because Donald Trump said 'if you don't fight like hell you won't have a country anymore.' And finally, why did they view Mike Pence as the enemy? Because Donald Trump, on January 6th, tweeted, and I quote, 'Mike Pence didn't do what he should have done to protect our country and our constitution.'"
"You know what," he concluded. "Donald Trump runs through this 48-page indictment and I think that's an ominous sign of things to come."
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MAGA lawmakers likely ‘alarmed’ by Oath Keepers indictment as Jan. 6 probe ‘goes up the ladder’
Some Republican members of Congress undoubtedly were alarmed by Thursday's indictment of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, because it signals that the Department of Justice's Jan. 6 probe won't end with the "schmoes" who stormed the Capitol, according to former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt.
Appearing on MSNBC on Friday, the Lincoln Project co-founder was asked by host Nicole Wallace why he thinks Fox News "feels compelled to defend seditious insurrection."
"The reason they're doing it I think is the most obvious one — for money," Schmidt responded. "There is a billion-dollar audience that's out there that can now be more easily imprisoned intellectually, algorithmically, where they are consigned to these information silos, where a community forms."
Schmidt added that, especially during the pandemic, many Americans became lonely and began searching for a sense of community.
"What spews forth from Fox New trickles down to the Facebook posts and the chat rooms, and to the level where this fills people's feeds within their groups, and they have a community who have opted out of reality," he said. "And the people who are responsible for it aren't the victims of misinformation. It's the people who are peddling the lies and the BS."
But that is precisely what's so significant about the Oath Keepers indictment and the ongoing investigations of the Capitol insurrection, according to Schmidt.
"In American society over the last 20 years, in a way that has destabilized American democracy, all of the accountability we have seen has been inflicted at the bottom rung of the ladder," he said. "A great example of this is the economic crisis in 2009. Tens of millions of families lost their homes, lost their mortgages. What Wall Street banker went to jail? The answer is none of them."
"So what we see in this prosecution is that no, it's not going to just be the schmo who invaded the Capitol and did whatever desecration," he added. "It's going to be the leaders of the paramilitary movement, it's going to be the leaders of the extremist movement, that this is going to go up the ladder, and that's a rare change in American society and culture over the last 20 years, and no doubt one that is alarming to a lot of members of Congress and other people who think their positions of power immunize them from accountability, even when it's the most grievous sins you can commit against the republic."
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It would totally amaze me that any of the people further up the food chain would be prosecuted. The movers and shakers of the right or left will let Trump be the one to let hang out to dry. He has made to many of the the background leaders pissed off.