After his Iowa speech on Sunday, Donald Trump went to a farm to inspect a giant tractor. While there, he attacked Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) a second time for pulling the fire alarm in the House office building during the main Saturday vote.
Bowman released a statement Sunday saying that he was trying to get out of a locked door in one of the office buildings to race over to the Capitol to vote. He did not, as previously rumored, pull the fire alarm to stop the vote. The alarm would not have stopped the vote, as they were in two different buildings.
Still, Trump told the press that Bowman is just as bad as the Jan. 6 attackers who threatened to assassinate the former vice president, former speaker of the House and anyone else they found.
"If you look what's happening to the Jan. sixers," Trump said, "they're putting them in jail for years and years. And this guy pulled an alarm system. And to show you how corrupt they are, he then said, when he got caught he didn't know he was on tape."
In fact, Bowman said he "did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote."
Trump went on to rage at Bowman calling him a "radical, left, lunatic, and he should be prosecuted the same exact way as the J6 people were prosecuted, and they've been treated — many of them treated more unfairly than anybody in the history of our country."
In Washington, D.C. the law states that anyone pulling a fire alarm, "upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment."
"D.C. Law 18-373 rewrote subsec. (a); and added subsec. (a-1). Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: '(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wilfully or knowingly give a false alarm of fire within the District of Columbia, and any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this section shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia or by any Assistant Corporation Counsel.'"
The chief of the Oath Keeper's militia was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other related charges. Pulling a fire alarm isn't generally considered to be sedition.
"These are the same House Republicans who are perfectly happy to have Paul Gosar in their midst," said MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on Sunday. "Who called for the execution of 'sodomy promoting traitor Gen. Mark Milley' just last week. And Lauren Boebert who carried out a lewd act in an audience filled with kids, last, month. George Santos who is under federal indictment, lied about his entire life. But they got worked up about Jamaal Bowman setting off a fire alarm in the Cannon office?"
Fellow MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin cut in to read Donald Trump's post on Truth Social demanding the same fate as the Jan. 6 defendants.
He "is now calling for Jamaal Bowman to face the same fate as the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who are obstructing an official congressional proceeding. I mean, this is like the death of irony, right?" said the host. "Trump of all people, a defendant accused of obstructing a congressional proceeding, is now conceding that obstructing a congressional proceeding is actually a crime. Can you just imagine the reaction of Trump's lawyers when they saw that confession?"
The larger question is whether McCarthy targeting Bowman paves the way for Democrats to target Republican lawmakers involved in Jan. 6 or other smaller crimes.
See the video of the mockery in the video below or at the link here.
Trump attacking Democrat admits 'obstructing a congressional proceeding is actually a crime': hostyoutu.be
