Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley joined The Brian Kilmeade Show to explain why Jan. 6 was a riot, not a rebellion or insurrection.
This from msn.com.
The constitutional scholar said not only has former President Trump not been charged with incitement or rebellion in the three years since, but that the American people do not view it that way, either.
The constitutional law professor said the efforts to disqualify Trump on that basis threaten democracy:
The biggest problem for me is that the 14th Amendment, Section Three, deals with rebellion and/or insurrection. This was neither. This was a riot and at some point, mature minds have got to kick in here and say, look, he has never even been charged with incitement, let alone rebellion and insurrection.
But more importantly, putting aside the fact that he hasn’t been convicted, this wasn’t a rebellion or insurrection. I know that the other side has really tried hard to portray it that way, but the American people don’t even view it that way. Polls indicate that the public views this as a protest that became a riot. It doesn’t excuse what happened. […]
Jan 6 Un-Select Committee: Reps Aguilar (C/G-CA), Chair Thompson (C/G-MS), Cheney (RINO-WY), and Kinzinger (RINO-IL)
We’ve had violent protests in this country. There were violent protests when Trump was inaugurated. And at that time, there were communist/globalist members who voted not to certify Donald Trump. Were they also rebellious? What is being suggested here will bring down the Republic. But, of course, this is the Obama ‘fundamental change.’
If this is going to be the new theory, it’ll be replicated, it’ll metastasize throughout the country.
A column in the New York Post talking about the new effort to bar Congressman [Scott] Perry under the same theory that communist/globalist members of Congress have asked to bar dozens of Republican members of Congress under the same theories.
That’s the slippery slope that we’re about to step on.
This is tit-for-tat politics. And the terrible thing is that this is the most successful and stable democracy in the history of the world. And yet, after this long successful run, We the People have blind advocates today trying to introduce an instability in that system that could destroy it. This is the type of theory that can destroy a Constitutional Republic, whether one side chooses to wrongfully call it a Democracy or not.
Further, there is a poll showing that the majority of people do not believe in this disqualification. Some 40% do, and this demonstrates the danger we are now facing.
We are a divided nation and the 2024
election presently exists in the courts.
Trump Rally December 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa.
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed most of the civil counts against Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6.
In a 12-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed three of the five civil counts in a lawsuit filed last January by Sandra Garza, Sicknick’s girlfriend.
