Former President Donald Trump compared the imprisonment of the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021 to the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Mediaite reports he appeared on an interview with conservative Dan Bongino saying “Why are they still being held? Nobody’s ever been treated like this. Nobody’s ever maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly. But, you know, they were held too.”
Trump wondered aloud why the rioters were not released after the Supreme Court ruled an obstruction law used to prosecute some of the rioters was an overreach.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time of the decision that he would comply with the decision, but that the case did not apply to the “vast majority” of those prosecuted.
The Justice Department charged 1500 rioters, with some 550 charged with assaulting, impeding or resisting officers or employees.
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The January 6 mob were rioters who broke the law. Japanese Americans in the West Coast who were uprooted and sent to the concentration camps in 1942 broke no laws.
It’s beyond insulting. What’s next? Comparing MAGA voters to enslaved African Americans? The false equivalency is absurd. More here on false equivalency:
MOSF 19.18: Trump v. Harris: Catastrophizing the Electorate v. Reason, Growth, and Change (closing argument of a psychiatrist for Kamala Harris and the American People) https://eastwindezine.com/mosf-19-18-trump-v-harris-catastrophizing-the-electorate-v-reason-growth-and-change/