Former White House Counsel Richard Painter Calls for a Special Prosecutor to Hold Trump Accountable for 1/6

Writing successful a column for MSNBC, erstwhile White House Counsel Richard Painter called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to name a peculiar authoritative to clasp erstwhile President Donald Trump accountable for the events of January 6, the time a radical of Trump’s supporters attacked the United States Capitol connected the mendacious premise that the predetermination had been stolen.

Painter writes that Trump violated 18 USC 610 of the national code, which makes it a federal crime for “any idiosyncratic to intimidate, threaten, command, oregon coerce, oregon effort to intimidate, threaten, command, oregon coerce, immoderate worker of the Federal Government … to prosecute in, oregon not to prosecute in, immoderate governmental activity.”

“More than 30 years ago, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued persuasively that peculiar prosecutors are needed erstwhile high-ranking officials shatter the public’s religion successful the government’s integrity,” Painter writes. “He’s president now, and his lawyer general, Merrick Garland, has the authorization to name a peculiar counsel to analyse and prosecute allegations of crimes by Trump and others, including violations of the governmental coercion statute.”

Painter goes connected to adhd that Garland “not lone has that authority, but helium besides has the obligation” to prosecute crimes committed by the erstwhile president.

“Whether a erstwhile president should beryllium prosecuted for allegations including coercing governmental enactment by national employees oregon inciting insurrection should not beryllium a governmental judgement call,” helium writes. “A president who committed specified crimes indispensable beryllium prosecuted if we bash not privation those crimes to beryllium repeated by aboriginal presidents oregon our typical ideology imperiled.”