Former President Donald Trump called for the “ending” of the US constitution over the weekend as part of his ongoing efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“Massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump said. he wrote on his website Saturday.
In case someone does not understand its meaning, in a tracking post declared, “UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD REQUIRES UNPRECEDENTED CURE!”
The emerging theme of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is not just that he actually won 2020 and that the election was rigged against him, but that the January 6, 2021 riot was an appropriate response. He has made it increasingly clear that he believes he and his supporters are above the law.
On Thursday, Trump participated via video fundraiser for people who are in prison for attacking the Capitol in his name. The FBI arrested and charged about 900 people for participating in the Trump-instigated riot that day.
“It’s a very unfair situation, and as you know, we’re going to be looking at it and talking very, very strongly about it over the next few weeks, months and next year, a year and a half, during the campaign.” Trump said in the video he made for the event.
Trump has previously said he would consider pardoning rioters if he wins the White House again.
Other speakers at the Patriot Freedom Project event in Florida included several rioters charged with violent crimes for their participation in the Capitol riot. They all spoke on the phone from prison.
“On June 11, 2021, I am an American political prisoner,” Robert Morss of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, said through a cellphone held by a microphone.
Morss donned camouflage and tactical gear as he joined the crowd on Jan. 6 and clashed with police before entering the Capitol through a broken window. The FBI arrested Morse last June, and a federal judge this summer found him guilty of obstructing official proceedings, as well as assault, resisting or obstructing officers with a dangerous weapon and robbery. He is in jail in Washington awaiting sentencing in January.
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Another self-described political prisoner who spoke at the event, Jorden Mink of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, allegedly broke Capitol windows with a baseball bat and attacked police with a pole. Mink asked the courts to release him from prison pending trial, but federal judges said rioters like Mink were “in a different category of danger” than people who entered the Capitol only after others were in the lead.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a Trump loyalist, attended the event in person, telling the crowd that she would push for a House committee to investigate the alleged mistreatment of inmates on Jan. 6 at the Washington prison.
While Trump calls for clemency for his supporters, he calls for brutal law enforcement against others. A diploma standing ovation in Trump’s 2024 speech promotes the idea of same-day trials and executions for drug traffickers.
“We will demand that all drug dealers who are caught selling drugs receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” Trump said in his speech last month announcing his third bid for the presidency.
The former president said he got the idea from Chinese President Xi Jinping, the authoritarian head of the Chinese Communist Party, who reportedly said China had no drug problem because of its “expedited trial” policy on the death penalty.
The US Supreme Court has declared the death penalty unconstitutional for crimes that do not directly lead to death, although this may be one of the rules that Trump would like to end.
A handful of elected Republicans denounced Trump’s suggestion to destroy the Constitution. On Monday, Trump responded, saying he was not in favor of “terminating” our founding document, but still insisting that he be immediately reinstated as president.
“What I have said is that when there is ‘MAXIMUM FRAUD AND DECEPTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ as was irrefutably demonstrated in the 2020 presidential election, immediate action must be taken to RIGHT THE WRONG,” he wrote on Truth Social .
In the coming days, the congressional commission investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will issue its final report, likely focused heavily on Trump’s role in inciting the riot. Trump has only stepped up his rhetoric since 2020, and committee members see their work as designed to help prevent the next insurrection.
“The report is half the past and what we just studied and half the future and what needs to be done to protect us from similar cycles of coups, insurrection, election sabotage and political violence,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md. ) told reporters last week.
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