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| Fig. 1 "Rules is Rules" |
I. Background
The January Six Committee has been vindicated once again (January Six Committee, 2).
Let's start this post with a "collusion (a.k.a. conspiracy theory)" type myth, one of the many types which the media promotes:
A notable newspaper has a click-bait headline: Who Is Jack Smith, the Special Counsel [prosecutor] Who Indicted Trump?
(The New York Times). But the January Six Committee has not been vindicated by an indictment by a prosecutor as the media myths would have it.
That is because prosecutors cannot indict, only a Grand Jury can do that: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury" (5th Amendment, emphasis added).
The first line of the indictment reads "The Grand Jury charges that:", so those who are saying that a prosecutor indicted him are way wrong.
II. But ... But ... Trump Was ...
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| Fig. 2 Head Shape Shifter |
As this Dredd Blog series has shown, many people in the "Trump orbit" took the 5th Amendment mantra:
"I won't answer that question because I don't want to or have to incriminate myself."
See the list of those in the "Trump orbit", including a link to their deposition, as well as the pages therein where they "took the fifth" (link here).
Ergo, Trump will not testify under oath at his criminal trial, because he would perjure himself instead of only lying on television or social media as usual (Fig. 2).
In fact, the last time he appeared for a deposition IN A CIVIL CASE he "pleaded the fifth more than 400 times" (Guardian).
III. Closing Comments
We are seeing the reality blogged about on Dredd Blog that some of you regular readers may have thought were mere speculations:
"Group-mind trance does not occur only in highly charged temporary gatherings, such as riots or lynch mobs. Group-mind trance is a part of the everyday life of each one of us. We belong to various kinds of groups--families, work groups, churches, and other organizations. Each has its own group mind that entrances us, perhaps more subtly than a lynch mob, but every bit as effectively. And in the group-mind trance, we experience all the features of other trance states."
(Choose Your Trances Carefully). It's a year of the cat-group-mind-trance (On The Origin of The Containment Entity - 8).
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.