MAILBAG: Let’s Talk About Jan 6

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Concerned citizens emailed me the following the other day:

I’m curious if you have a position on January 6 and the electric scheme, I can’t find it anywhere on your website. I’m curious on how and why you think that election fairness would need assistance seeing that all election fraud cases as past election were dropped. I don’t think there were any confirmed cases voter fraud and if they were, it was probably like 1 to 5 people. I’m a concerned of voter. I see you place signs everywhere and it worries me that you hold these beliefs. I would love to talk about it. Given the chance. Thank you for your time.

-Jace from Irvine

As anyone who reads this blog knows I am not a Trump supporter.

I’m not a Trump hater either.

I’m a Trump does some good stuff sometimes and some bad stuff other times and I’m going to call balls and strikes kind of guy. Not very many of us out there.

The one place where he really lost me though was the election fraud scam he tried to pull off in 2021.

Now look, I was fine with his rhetoric back in 2016 when he called the system rigged and suggested the election back then was fixed– he was basicaly just saying the media and the parties were against him because and were pulling every dirty trick to beat him.

I’m dealing with that right now– people are stealing my signs for instance.

And he wasn’t wrong. I mean every media outlet couldn’t stop complaining about Trump back then. And it really did look like it was Trump against the world.

But 2021 was something entirely different. The dude lost and he lost badly. It wasn’t even close. All the conspiracy theories and whining just amounted to sour grapes and sore losership.

And then the right engaged in that sickening display with the “Let’s go Brandon” nonsense. Just a bunch of children with their feelings hurt. Couldn’t get their guy into office so they attaked the new guy.

To be clear– the new guy also sucked, but I digress.

The point is what Trump did to us on January 6 was deplorable. He let his supporters attack our capital in his own name. He put himself above the people of the United States that day. Period. The end.

Honestly I’m not even mad at the people who attacked the capital– they were doing what they thought their president wanted them to do. They really believed the election had been stolen. And if that was true they were kind of doing the right thing. But it wasn’t. It was a lie.

And lies cannot be tolerated in this nation.

And Trump IS a liar. Although he is ALSO a truth teller.

And what is fascinating is that he us the BIGGEST truth teller AND the BIGGEST liar at the same time.

And that’s why I could never fully support Trump or hate him.

Because he does do some remarkably cool things. If you just stop and listen to the guy– not the media coverage of him, just listen to him, he has moments of true brilliance and a true form of integrity that cannot be denied.

But I can never forgive what he did on January 6. Sitting their watching his supporters attack our capital– build gallows to hang our representative– all based on his lies. And he just let it happen.

No. I can’t forgive that. Or forget that. And I won’t.

But I can still work with him– and I will– because that’s what our nation needs.

Hope that answers your question Jace!

If you have questions for Troutman you can always email them to winners@troutmanforamerica.com and we will have another townhall soon!

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric J. Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 250 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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