Charges Against Trump and Vance: What You Need to Know
Thank you, Pogoatty, for posting the charges. Listing again here with a link to their comment:
- Disrupting public service — by causing widespread bomb and other threats that resulted in massive disruptions to the public services in Springfield, Ohio;
- Making false alarms — by knowingly causing alarm in the Springfield community by continuing to repeat lies that state and local officials have said were false;
- Committing telecommunications harassment — by spreading claims they know to be false during the presidential debate, campaign rallies, nationally televised interviews, and social media;
- Committing aggravated menacing in violation — by knowingly making intimidating statements with the intent to abuse, threaten, or harass the recipients, including Trump’s threat to deport immigrants who are here legally to Venezuela, a land they have never known;
- Committing aggravated menacing — by knowingly causing others to falsely believe that members of Springfield’s Haitian community would cause serious physical harm to the person or property of others in Springfield; and
- Violating the prohibition against complicity — by conspiring with one another and spreading vicious lies that caused innocent parties to be parties to their various crimes.
And the Affidavit (also thanks to Pogoatty): Read the Affidavit
Breaking News: Charges Filed by Haitian Non-Profit
There’s a ‘breaking news’ notice going out on Cleveland’s Channel Five News site (ABC affiliate), that a Haitian non-profit has filed charges against Trump and Vance, using the state’s statute allowing private citizens to “file an affidavit charging the offense committed.”
It’s all over Xitter right now, and RawStory has posted this little gem:
Trump and Vance face ‘immediate arrest’ as criminal charges filed over Springfield hoax
Ohio Law in Action: Citizens File Charges
An Ohio law allowing citizens to file criminal charges is being used to target former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over their comments about Haitians in Springfield.
According to Fox 8, the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed criminal charges against the two Republican candidates at Clark County Municipal Court on Tuesday.
Local Leaders Speak Out
I hope I haven’t violated fair use, so I’ll stop here, for now, but, bottom line: while Ohio GOP politicians are doing their damnedest to minimize, mitigate, and re-interpret what Trump and Vance are doing to Springfield as ‘harmless’ or non-hurtful political speech, the mayor and law enforcement officials are trying to protect schools and neighborhoods, and don’t appreciate what’s happening, AT ALL.
They (the governor and others) are giving interviews to outlets like the New York Times (of course) and posting on Xitter, in support, while Trump and Vance continue howling like rabid Orangutans for their version of Blood Libel — they sound like what they have, apparently, morphed into — card-carrying White Supremacist sympathizers.
