Federal Judge Warns That Trump's Lies Will Inspire More Violence

Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a ruling this week where she warned that Donald Trump's ongoing lies about the election will eventually inspire more violence in America. This warning came in a decision about the fate of a Capitol rioter, and Judge Jackson has seen enough from these individuals to understand what the continuation of "The Big Lie" will do to this country. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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This week in a decision on a case, uh, involving one of the Capitol rioters, federal judge, Amy Berman Jackson in her decision issued a warning to the United States as a whole. And she said that if Donald Trump continues to spread

His big lie, and that is of course the lie that the election was somehow stolen, even though we all know it wasn't.

But if he continues to do this, his craze supporters, like the one that Jackson sees in her courtroom too frequently, these days are going to continue down their path of violence against the United States. Here's actually what she had to say. The steady drum beat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away. Six months later, the canard that the election was stolen as being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near daily fulminations of the former presence.

She's right, by the way, other federal

Judges too recently have been warning about the same thing. And these really are the people that we ought to be listening to right now, because these are the people hearing the cases hearing from the crazed individuals who storm the Capitol on January 6th, they're hearing it straight from the horse's mouth. Okay? These aren't outside observers. These aren't, you know, political pundits making their predictions. These are people who are looking at these individuals at these criminals, hearing the words coming out of the criminals, listening to their defenses and saying, oh my God, this is going to keep happening because what radicalized,

These people is still happening out there.

And as Jackson pointed out in her ruling, it's coming from Trump, it's coming from other lawmakers, Republican lawmakers. It's coming from Fox and Newsmax and own all of these conservative groups, conservative people. They continue to spread this big lie and it's only growing. And that's the most terrifying part. It's not dying down. It's actually getting worse. We now have Georgia doing election audits. Uh, Wisconsin announced on Thursday, they're going to start doing it too. They're also pushing for a audits. Yeah. In Michigan, the lie is spreading, not dying. The radicalization is growing, not fading away. And these judges see it firsthand in these defendants. And these are people that have spent their lives analyzing criminals. They have to understand what happened to these individuals, why they did what they did when they come up with their sentencing rulings. Okay. That's part of the logic that these individuals have. These federal judges have that, and they're looking at these people

And they're saying, this is going to happen again. And this is going to continue happening. If we continue to let the big lies bread. And that is a terrifying thought here in the United States, we all watched in horror. As we saw the events of January 6th, unfold on our TVs. I typically do not watch cable news. I don't watch cable news. And to be honest, I did that day. Uh, whenever I do, by the way I do, uh, you know, if it's something like that, I turn it to CNN

Because usually they shut up when they're showing something like that, like they're not necessarily

Talking. Um, so

I watched it sitting right here at this desk, on the computer, in front of me

In shock. And I've been doing this for 17 years. I've never seen anything like that. And I hope to never see anything like that again. But these judges are telling us

With what they see in these defendants. It's going to happen again. If the lie doesn't stop, it's going to continue to happen.

And that is part of the reason why Trump comes

Out there with these lies, why we always try to refute them, why we come on and we do more segments about them. Yes, it's exhausting for you. It's exhausting

For us to have to do it, but we have to do it. We do have an obligation

To continue to refute these lies

In the hopes that maybe we can reach some of these individuals and prevent as much violence as possible.

Because if we don't, these judges are telling us it's going to happen again.