'Chickens coming home to roost': How MAGA extremists are finally facing consequences

13 September 2023

After being convicted of seditious conspiracy in May, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on September 5. Tarrio wasn't physically present in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, but jurors agreed that he helped coordinate a violent effort to reverse the 2020 presidential election results and keep Donald Trump in White House despite the fact that he lost.

In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on September 13, journalist Bill Lueders applauds the long prison sentences that members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers have been receiving as examples of Trump's supporters facing long overdue "accountability."

"Elsewhere, signs of chickens coming home to roost are abundant," Lueders argues. " Peter Navarro, Trump's former trade adviser, was convicted last week on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee looking into the January 6th attack…. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's former lawyer and fellow election fabulist, is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in Trump's federal indictment for trying to overturn the election results."

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Lueders continues, "He did not escape being indicted, along with Trump and 17 others, for his role in seeking to subvert Georgia's 2020 election results. And, in late August, he was found liable for defaming two of that state's election workers."

The journalist adds that Trump himself is facing both federal and State of Georgia charges because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

"Trump's attempts to threaten and coerce election officials into breaking the law to overturn the will of the voters are at least as serious as those for which his shock troops are being locked up," Lueders writes. "Could it be that the most lawless of presidents will, like many of those around him, be brought down by, of all things, the rule of law? That's beginning to look like a real possibility."

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