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Lara Trump could be facing 20 years in prison for inciting vigilante violence on Fox News: report
June 12, 2021
Lara Trump could be in legal jeopardy after suggesting vigilante violence while being interviewed by Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro.
Trump said residents of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California may need engage in extra-legal violence against people perceived to be immigrants from south of the border.
"And I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border," she said. "I guess they better arm up and get guns and be ready — and maybe they're going to have to start taking matters into their own hands."
Fred Wellman, the executive director of the Lincoln Project, suggested the former president's daughter in-law may have committed a federal crime. Wellman cited "18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence" which allows prison sentences of up to 20 years for, "Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct..."
Incitement to violence. https://t.co/zSXRLg31tT https://t.co/GoL7JtxL7P— Fred Wellman (@Fred Wellman) 1623549421.0
Here's what other people were saying about Lara Trump's comments:
This is dangerous. The former president's daughter-in-law is calling for people to shoot immigrants. It's worse aft… https://t.co/06U4oTtK8i— Russell Foster for Texas (@Russell Foster for Texas) 1623549746.0
This is stochastic terrorism. Lara Trump is a domestic terrorist. https://t.co/K4Ie1Cd2r7— Paul Rosenberg (@Paul Rosenberg) 1623549634.0
I would love to know why this inflammatory nonsense is allowed on television. Fox opinion is often indistinguishab… https://t.co/W4uzKSu9Yp— Angry Staffer (@Angry Staffer) 1623549814.0
There is so much loose talk like this right now. She's not stupid. She knows what she's saying. https://t.co/fSVBnaAskt— digby (@digby) 1623548943.0
Another Trump insights insurrection. https://t.co/IREtfWCzwm— Tea Pain (@Tea Pain) 1623548589.0
They're willing to start a war and get people killed just to prove a lying orange con-man was right about the terri… https://t.co/UIDxPD3pFi— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@Khashoggi’s Ghost) 1623550221.0
Bloodthirsty blue bloods are going to be the death of us all.— Seth Cotlar (@Seth Cotlar) 1623550521.0
How many people were shot in Austin yesterday? https://t.co/sNF1wrnFV5— Andrea R MD (@Andrea R MD) 1623547562.0
Just casually saying on a national broadcast that people should take up arms and start shooting immigrants. This is… https://t.co/8arRDy3aaR— Zach D Roberts (@Zach D Roberts) 1623549515.0
Um, isn't she inviting gun violence here? This is not ok. https://t.co/CrYG2buBmH— Ann Slater (@Ann Slater) 1623548016.0
Yeah, that's an opinion worth listening to. https://t.co/Rxq3i4XTGx— Charles P. Pierce (@Charles P. Pierce) 1623548729.0
Purposefully trying to incite nationalist violence on video... https://t.co/fmJbUeuJBD— Ms. Imani Makes Minis (@Ms. Imani Makes Minis) 1623548097.0
Lara Trump tells migrants not to make the journey to the US even though asylum laws make it acceptable.... she then… https://t.co/imuUkc0bzp— Prez 🌻🌹🌍🏳️🌈 (@Prez 🌻🌹🌍🏳️🌈) 1623549485.0
Last time I checked Inciting violence is a crime https://t.co/gXfezhZbFK— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle) 1623547429.0
When the hell are these people getting indicted? https://t.co/842YXh1NbE— Christopher Bouzy (@Christopher Bouzy) 1623549608.0
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'Arm up and get guns': Lara Trump warns people may have to 'start taking matters into their own hands'
June 12, 2021
Despite violent rhetoric from her family inciting the January 6th insurrection, Lara Trump suggested vigilante violence against people perceived to be from south of the southern border during a Saturday night appearance with Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro.
The former president's daughter-in-law suggested residents of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California should arm themselves and prepare for violence.
"And I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border," she said. "I guess they better arm up and get guns and be ready — and maybe they're going to have to start taking matters into their own hands."
She went on to say people shouldn't not make the "dangerous" journey to America despite the right of asylum being guaranteed by U.S. and international law.
Lara Trump says people who live at the southern border should get guns and take matters into their own hands https://t.co/2JL30va6nF— Acyn (@Acyn) 1623547042.0
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons lacks the 'compassion' of Texas Republicans: St. Louis newspaper
June 12, 2021
Missouri's Republican governor was called out for lacking the compassion of Republicans in Texas in a new editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"One of the worst crimes any government can commit is to imprison an innocent person. The unjust denial of liberty formed a pillar of the conservative tea party movement during the previous decade and inspired conservatives in the Texas Legislature to get solidly behind bills designed to free the innocent, compensate them for their losses and to punish wayward prosecutors," the editorial board wrote. "In Missouri, however, Gov. Mike Parson can't bring himself to recognize an egregious injustice when he sees it and then take corrective action. The case of Kevin Strickland, 62, is one where a judge, prosecutors, witnesses and the defense all seem to agree: He did not commit the 1978 triple murder for which he is serving a life sentence. The fact that he is Black appears to have weighed heavily in the judicial railroading that landed him in prison."
The newspaper contrasted Parson with his GOP colleagues in the Lone Star State.
"If Strickland were in Texas, he would undoubtedly be free by now, and his cause not only would be embraced by top Republicans but they would also be joining Democrats in demanding millions of dollars in compensation for him. We know this because of Texas GOP lawmakers' stellar record in championing the cause of at least two exonerees honored on the legislative floor — one Black and the other white — after having been caught in similar webs of injustice. Is there something about liberty and justice that Texas Republicans know that has eluded their Missouri counterparts?" the newspaper wondered.
Parsons has been harshly criticized for saying a pardon for Strickland is not a "priority" for his administration.
"It should be a top priority for Parson because an innocent man appears to be paying every day for a crime all others in the case insist he did not commit. His injustice is compounded by the fact that a racially biased prosecutorial system ensured his cries of innocence would be stifled for four decades. Parson should look to his fellow Republicans in Texas to see how compassion and conservatism don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive," the newspaper suggested.
Watch coverage of the case from ABC News:
Prosecutors call for innocent man’s release, but existing law prevents it www.youtube.com
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