The Put up:
Utilizing bodily traits and interviews with members of the family, supporters and attorneys, The Washington Put up recognized 5 of the roughly 15 males who’re featured within the video [that preceded the audio recording]. 4 of them had been charged with assaulting police, utilizing weapons similar to a crowbar, sticks and chemical spray, together with towards Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died the following day.
Evidently, had Trump merely acted like a standard boy and conceded the election he’d very clearly misplaced, Officer Sicknick would nearly actually be alive in the present day. As would Ashli Babbitt, the Trump fangirl-turned-insurrectionist who was shot by Capitol safety whereas attempting to pressure her means by way of a locked door.
And members of Sicknick’s household have observed! Brian Sicknick’s brother Kenneth instructed the Put up that he was “disgusted” by Trump’s marketing campaign to rehabilitate the Jan. 6 defendants, including, “The rallying cry is that no police officer died on Jan. 6, they usually omit inconvenient issues like my brother’s first stroke occurred on Jan. 6, and he was placed on life assist and died the next day. They usually do this over and again and again.”
After all, as with every part Trump-related, all due diligence was accomplished earlier than he stated or did one thing egregiously bizarre, like suggesting to an already frightened and confused nation that they need to think about injecting disinfectant straight into their arteries. Or, effectively, perhaps not. Yeah, they did precisely zero due diligence.
The audio for the only “Justice for All” was recorded in February by congregating the inmates in numerous areas of the jail with higher acoustics, in accordance with Donna Fiducia, a number on Actual America’s Voice, a right-wing information community, who stated she helped advise the group on making the recording and getting it to editors on the community. Fiducia stated she didn’t know which inmates participated, and the Trump allies who produced “Justice for All” — Kash Patel, a former White Home aide and present Trump adviser, and Ed Henry, one other Actual America’s Voice host — declined to establish the choir members.
Trump recorded himself saying the Pledge of Allegiance after he heard concerning the manufacturing and wished to take part, in accordance with the marketing campaign. The Trump marketing campaign stated it didn’t produce “Justice for All” and doesn’t know the names of the singers. When requested concerning the origin of the tune, the marketing campaign referred The Put up to the web video because it appeared on the video-sharing web site Rumble.
Gee, you’d suppose when you had been going to collaborate artistically with a bunch of felony defendants, you’d exit of your strategy to set up their innocence first. That is like asking Kevin Spacey, Invoice Cosby, and Subway’s Jared to play the three Magi in your child’s second-grade Christmas pageant.
The Put up has executed Trump’s vetting for him, so now—completely chastened—he’ll little question disavow this crew and situation an abject apology for unnecessarily lionizing violent anti-American seditionists. Or not. He’s one kooky, unpredictable fowl, in spite of everything.
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However in case Trump is studying this—and that’s considerably extra doubtless now that I’ve simply slipped the phrases “Filet-O-Fish,” “Ivanka,” and “Pornhub” into the physique of the textual content—right here’s what The Put up discovered.
Trump’s new “America, yay!” video contains these sketchy characters:
- Ryan Nichols, who faces a number of expenses linked to Jan. 6, together with assault on a federal officer with a weapon. In line with prosecutors, footage exhibits him utilizing a chemical spray in the course of the melee.
- Shane Jenkins, whose expenses embrace destruction of presidency property and “assaulting, resisting or impeding sure officers utilizing a lethal or harmful weapon.”
- William Chrestman. In line with The Put up, he’s accused of “main a Kansas Metropolis-area group of Proud Boys and telling a Capitol Police officer, ‘You shoot, and I’ll take your f—ing ass out!’ in addition to utilizing an ax deal with to maintain police from closing constructing gates.”
- Jonathan Mellis, who was recorded “repeatedly hitting law enforcement officials with an enormous stick in the identical tunnel battle as Jenkins.”
- Julian Khater, who pleaded responsible to utilizing a chemical spray on Sicknick, who died the day after the Jan. 6 revolt. Khater is at present serving an 80-month jail sentence.
By some means it doesn’t ever appear to matter that Trump will get to date down within the mud he wants the world’s longest snorkel. His followers will nonetheless assist him—the “tune” charted at #1 when it dropped in March—and main cable information retailers will apparently nonetheless search to normalize him, regardless of every part he’s stated and executed.
However he’s not a reputable presidential candidate—hell, he’s not even a reputable American. And it’s excessive time the media cease pretending in any other case.
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