Trump Compares Jan. 6 Insurrectionists To WWII-Era Japanese American Incarcerees | EUROtoday

Former President Donald Trump as soon as once more claimed Friday that his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have been being handled unfairly by the federal justice system.

But this time, he supplied a deeply flawed historic analogy: Trump claimed the insurrectionists are being handled like Japanese Americans throughout World War II who have been forcibly faraway from their houses and incarcerated in remoted areas of the nation.

“Why are they still being held?” Trump requested throughout an look on right-wing pundit Dan Bongino’s present on Rumble, a far-right video platform.

“Nobody’s ever been treated like this. Maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly, they were held, too,” Trump stated.

Unlike the Jan. 6 defendants, the Japanese Americans imprisoned throughout World War II weren’t charged with any crimes. Rather, they have been held underneath the guise of nationwide safety after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

The wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans within the camps — barebones and squalid, stuffed with the very younger and really outdated alike — finally led Congress and President Ronald Reagan to situation an apology and $20,000 reparation verify to every surviving one who was unjustly imprisoned.

In sharp distinction, the Trump supporters who’ve been arrested for collaborating within the lethal Jan. 6 riot almost 4 years in the past have all been charged with crimes. Some are violent crimes, together with assaults on regulation enforcement officers, and some have even been convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Trump additionally voiced two provably false claims in his Bongino interview, saying “nobody was killed” throughout the riot and that “there were no guns involved.”

Several folks died within the crowd throughout the riot, and one Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, was shot lifeless by Secret Service personnel. Just this week, unsealed court docket data revealed how a Texas man and his accomplices snuck firearms into Washington, D.C., and even introduced one onto Capitol grounds. A person accused of firing a gun within the air throughout the riot was additionally arrested again in March.

Trump claimed that his supporters “really won in the Supreme Court” with its July determination in Fischer v. United States, a case that challenged using an obstruction statute utilized in opposition to a number of Jan. 6 defendants who allegedly tried to dam Congress’ certification of the 2020 election outcomes.

The court docket certainly dominated in favor of the Jan. 6 defendants, main the Department of Justice to drop the obstruction cost in some instances.

But greater than 1,200 folks have been charged in reference to the riot. Some individuals are nonetheless being held in jail whereas they await trial on different fees, whereas others have been handed sentences and are serving them out. Still others have already served their time and been launched.