Lara Trump this weekend put herself in legal jeopardy after calling for vigilante violence against migrants, telling Americans who live at the southern border to “get guns and be ready” to “matters into their own hands.”
Mrs. Trump’s comments came during an appearance on Fox News on Saturday. She said that residents of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California may need engage in extra-legal violence against people perceived to be immigrants from south of the border.
“And I don’t know what you tell the people that live at the southern border,” she told Fox personality Jeanine Pirro. “I guess they better arm up and get guns and be ready — and maybe they’re going to have to start taking matters into their own hands.”
In response, Fred Wellman, the executive director of the Lincoln Project, pointed out that the former president’s daughter-in-law committed a federal crime.
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Wellman cited “18 U.S. Code § 373 – Solicitation to commit a crime of violence” which allows prison sentences of up to 20 years for, “Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct…”
Incitement to violence. https://t.co/zSXRLg31tT https://t.co/GoL7JtxL7P
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) June 13, 2021
