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Related: About this forumProsecutor on Trump's legal issues for Haitian immigrant hoax - Brian Tyler Cohen
Legal Breakdown episode 374: @GlennKirschner2 discusses Trump's lies about Haitian immigrants and whether he has any legal exposure for inciting violence against them.
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Prosecutor on Trump's legal issues for Haitian immigrant hoax - Brian Tyler Cohen (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Sep 14
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sheshe2
(87,186 posts)1. He should as should JD.
Someone is going to get killed.
DBoon
(23,025 posts)3. Yes, this is a direct incitement to lynching
Irish_Dem
(56,062 posts)4. They's love it if they got someone killed.
They love the power they have. And love bloodshed.
hlthe2b
(106,063 posts)2. Only if the FEDs intervene. The Ohio AG has been spreading the whole lie as well.
--even as R-Gov DeWine has made clear it is all lies.
Think. Again.
(17,324 posts)5. I'm not a criminal attorney, but this seems pretty clear to me...
18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence
(a)Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373
(a)Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373
Rhiannon12866
(221,157 posts)6. Wow! Thanks for this and I sure agree!
My only question is why this is taking so long!