Why Trump should go to jail for his attempted coup

his false assertion that the election had been stolen led to an insurrection against the U.S. government 

His involvement in the creation of slates of false electors in states won by Joe Biden

His pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence to hold up the certification of the election results

His pressure campaign on various state officials to add, delete, or modify votes to favor Trump

His pressure campaign on the Justice department to declare the election fraudulent 

attempts by Trump to obstruct the 1/6  investigation including both threats and attempted bribery of witnesses

Trump watched the riot on television rather than taking action to stop it.

Trump’s actions led to the death or injury of nearly 200 Americans including police officers

A Federal judge has already stated for the record that Trump is likely guilty of violating 2 Federal laws 

Obstruction of a U.S. government official proceeding

Conspiracy to defraud the United States

Remember that Trump is the fulfillment of H L Mencken's prediction in 1920.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

You mean back to back morons.

Mencken also was a fierce enemy of FDR. I support any quote from you on this topic.

Well, he did think Roosevelt should be King.

By May, 1933, Mencken felt the only recourse was to propose Roosevelt for King and let the people decide:

... the state of affairs thus confronting the country prompts me to make a simple suggestion. It is that a convention be called under Article V of the Constitution, and that it consider the desirability of making Dr. Roosevelt King in name as well as in fact. There is no constitutional impediment to such a change, and it would thus not amount to a revolution. The people of the United States are quite as free, under Article V. to establish a monarchy as they were to give the vote to women. Even if it be held, as some argue, that the bill of Rights is inviolable and cannot be changed by constitutional amendment, it may be answered that there is nothing in the Bill of Rights requiring that the national government shall be republican in form.
Indeed, a three years later, on the eve of an even greater disaster for the Republican Party than the defeat they had suffered in 1934, he would write in despair.

Biographer Terry Teachout characterized Mencken as “blinded partly by his hatred of Roosevelt.”

Mencken scholar Charles A. Fecher declared Mencken’s opinion of Roosevelt to be “maniacal — there is no other word to use.”

If you want to hear his unhinged rants against the New Deal, I can gleefully satisfy you.

Should? Absolutely. Will? I'll believe it when I see it.

"If Franklin Delano Roosevelt became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday."

Pretty sure Mencken hated Roosevelt.

Y'all acting like as if the White House isn't already a jail.