Dean Obeidallah: ‘Donald Trump Must Die in Jail’

EXCERPT:

OBEIDALLAH: "No, I think Donald Trump must die in prison because I don’t care if he was 45 years old. You should get life in prison if you attempt a coup, and there should be no chance of parole. I don’t care who it is. That’s why I think Donald Trump or anyone else who attempts a coup must die in jail because either we’re going to protect the democratic republic or we’re going to allow people, in this case Trump, to chip away at our democracy and chip away at what we believe in these institutions. That’s why I’m so passionate about it, like, with every fiber of my being, that Donald Trump has to live out his natural days, his last days of natural life in a prison cell. It’s important to say to everyone, 'You can’t do this.' That’s why it so outrages to me when Ron DeSantis was on Newsmax a few days ago and, 'Oh, we’re going to look at pardons for the Proud Boys,' like Trump has said. This is outrageous. These people plotted an attack. The prosecution laid out the case. They began plotting right after the election, when Trump said the election was stolen, they brought their people there. They had 200 people there at 10:00 in the morning, way before Trump’s speech, down by the Capitol, because they had plotted how they were going to attack the Capitol. And they did that to stop the certification. That’s why they were convicted of seditious conspiracy, just one step below treason. And the idea that Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump are going to pardon them, to me, again, that is on the border of being treasonous. These people attacked our Capitol to prevent the certification of an election. So I’m pretty clear where I go. And people accuse me like, 'Oh, you say things to get people riled up.' Like, nope, I get organically riled up about this because I believe in this system. And if you don’t believe in it, so be it. But if you believe in it, I don’t think there’s any conclusion you can bring but Donald Trump has to end up in a prison cell and live his last days out in that prison cell."

(via Mediaite)