NEW YORK (Dagbladet): The so-called charity single was released on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube on Friday, reports Forbes.
The song “Justice for All” was made by Trump and the group called the J6 Prison Choir. All the men in the choir are people who have now been convicted and are in prison for their role in the deadly attack on Congress on January 6, 2021.
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The attack came after Trump, who had lost the presidential election, called on his supporters to march on Congress to overturn the legal election results.
– The move is the latest in a growing trend where Trump and others on the extreme right in American politics embrace the January 6 attack on Congress as a political act, and how many of those who participated are portrayed as protesters who are being persecuted by the authorities, write The Guardian.
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The song, which lasts 2.5 minutes, features Trump reading the Pledge of Allegiance interspersed with the male choir singing the national anthem, “The Star Sprangled Banner.” At the end of the song, rhythmic shouts of “USA! USA! USA!” . According to Forbes, the song will be produced by an unnamed, major music artist.
The money from the song is planned to go to the families of the convicted. The project will not provide any support to the many police officers who were assaulted during the attack.
– Never been more repulsed
Many react not unexpectedly strongly to the fact that Trump and others who participated in the attack on Congress are now trying to raise money for what many perceive to have been an attempted coup d’état in the United States.
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– I have never been more repulsed than by the existence of a song sung by a president who tried to commit a coup d’état with a chorus of rebels trying to help him, says research director Robert Maguire at the organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics on Twitter.
– This is a disinformation tactic straight from the textbook for autocrats: Wrap lies in patriotism, writes law professor at the University of Michigan, Barb McQuade, on Twitter.
On January 6, 2021, Trump gathered his supporters for a large demonstration in Washington DC. He himself went on stage and asked his supporters to “fight like hell” to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the new president of the United States.
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The mob of Trump supporters then stormed towards Congress, where the certification was underway. There, the elected officials and Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, had to run for their lives while enraged Trump supporters used violence and weapons in an attempt to stop the democratic process.
According to New York Times are at least seven deaths linked to the attack. More than a thousand people have been charged. Hundreds have been convicted, while the FBI still has arrest warrants out for hundreds of others.
Trump was impeached for inciting the riot, but he was acquitted when enough Republican senators abstained from impeaching him.
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However, Trump’s role in the attack continues to be scrutinized. The congressional committee, which investigated the attack, sent a recommendation to the Justice Department last year that Trump be charged with four offenses in the case.
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This is just the top of all the legal problems Trump is surrounded by. Among other things, he is being investigated for having paid hush money to a porn star, for having tried to pressure local elected officials to overturn the election results in Florida and for having stored classified documents illegally at home at Mar-a-Lago. He is also being sued by a writer who claims Trump raped her. Trump himself denies any wrongdoing and describes everything as a political witch hunt.
At the same time, Trump already announced last November that he is standing for election again in the hope of becoming the Republican presidential candidate in 2024.
