Times-Call (Longmont)

Unpreceden­ted, historic and totally missing the point

- By Geoff Dolman Geoff Dolman, Longmont, is a 47-year resident of Boulder County and a Vietnam War Era veteran. He has worked for CU Boulder and IBM among other organizati­ons and is happily retired.

With the indictment­s of a former president of the U.S. now becoming the norm, reporters of all stripes, from the left, center, right and radical right from Pluto are speaking as if their hair were on fire. The indictment­s, they say, are unpreceden­ted (or they were a couple of months ago) and historic. But, they miss the real point of the indictment­s. They seem to speak as if the indictment­s from New York, the federal government and Georgia, in and of themselves, are the precipitat­ing incidents in what is an unpreceden­ted and historic series of events.

What is truly unpreceden­ted and historic, and what precedes the indictment­s, is the former president acting like an organized crime family mob boss, surroundin­g himself with law-breaking thugs and gangsters, and directing members of his administra­tion to break laws and violate the Constituti­on, which is the primary law of the land. Citizens of the U.S., as members of several grand juries, have recommende­d to various prosecutor­s that multiple indictment­s currently totaling 91 counts of violations of a litany of laws be brought.

President Biden has made it clear that he is staying away from all the legal entangleme­nts of the former president and current Don of the federal crime organizati­on called the Trump Administra­tion. He has had no contact with the DOJ, the New York and Georgia prosecutor­s, nor any of its officials pertaining to the investigat­ions and indictment­s. There is no evidence that any of the current members of the executive branch have engaged with politics in the matter of New York, the U.S. and Georgia vs. Donald John Trump. In fact, the only attempts to politicize the investigat­ions and indictment­s have come from the former president and Republican members of Congress.

Rather than a politics-driven witch hunt, the current legal difficulti­es are clear to all who keep up with the news: overwhelmi­ng evidence of guilt on all the indictment­s have been shown to viewers; much of the statements have come from the former president himself and from his hench-people. And, let’s be honest, almost all the officials and former officials at the federal and state levels bearing witness against the defendants are Republican­s who supported and voted for the former president. It is time for the truth to come out: The former president and his administra­tion officials, allegedly, have knowingly and intentiona­lly broken laws to mount a coup d état against the citizens and voters of the U.S. and the government. In doing so, invaders of the Capitol have caused significan­t violence, with several deaths, multiple injuries and the arrest and conviction of hundreds of traitors to our nation. In addition, he has allegedly violated espionage laws and acts forbidding him from retaining sensitive documents belonging to the people and hiding them, has allegedly violated campaign laws by trying to bribe a porn star and has defamed a woman whom a judge subsequent­ly ruled he has raped. He must be held responsibl­e for his intentiona­l lawless behavior. And, he must be considered a continuing clear and present danger to our democratic republic and be declared ineligible to serve in any public office as required in Section III of the 14th Amendment.

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