Jan 6 committee charges against Trump weak

 This comes from an interview with Andrew McCarthy on the Caly and Busk radio show:

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MCCARTHY: Well, I think the charges are really weak, Buck. The headline, I guess, that I would highlight to encapsulate this is they want to recommend that Trump violated a law that prevents people — or makes it a crime to incite an insurrection or to assist an insurrection or to aid and abet it, etc. And they say they’ve developed evidence of that. And, you know, first of all, they have not… Despite what they promised they were going to be able to prove, they have not proved there was an actionable criminal nexus between Donald Trump and the violence. More to the point, besides the fact that they haven’t proved it, the Justice Department has prosecuted over 800 people for various crimes arising out of the Capitol riot.

In two years of looking at this closely with a lot more resources to investigate it than the congressional committee has, they haven’t indicted a single person for the federal crime of insurrection. So, one wonders, how could Trump have aided and abetted something the Justice Department has looked at and hasn’t charged anybody with? But the other thing is, they’ve indicted a number of cases involving violence, like assaults on police officers and damage to the Capitol. There was a seditious conspiracy case in which some people got convicted. In none of those cases has the Justice Department suggested or cited Donald Trump for being an unindicted coconspirator.

And in fact, the Justice Department took the position that Trump was not the driving force of this. He was basically the pretext that people who were looking to commit violence anyway used as a rationalization for doing it. And the Justice Department has aggressively fought efforts by these defendants to shift blame to Trump. So, it’s pretty clear that they’ve decided… This doesn’t take Trump out of the woods. They’ve decided he wasn’t involved in the violence. That doesn’t mean that he may not have committed the crime of obstructing Congress. But it’s a harder proof if you don’t have the violence. So, my only point is, how is the committee referring a crime to the Justice Department — the theory of which has to be that Trump is, like, the driving force of the violence — when it’s become very clear over two years that that’s the opposite of what the Justice Department thinks happened?
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What this is really about is that Democrats and a few anti-Trump Republicans want to rig the next election so that Trump can't be a nominee and they think they can do that by charging him with a crime that would bar his run.  I see this as an attempt to thwart democracy.  The voters are perfectly capable of decision whether Trump should be a nominee and if he is whether he should be elected President.