were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report
kim, very much in the backdrop lisa made this point. this is the first and highest profile rape trial in a post-me too or after the earliest me too revelations. you have seen joe tacopina question why she didn t scream. it feels like the way a normal good rape victim should behave has been on trial this week. i think that s absolutely true. i heard a lot of old, tired tropes when it comes to that about how a victim is supposed to respond in that case. as we have discussed, she was dealing with somebody who she knew was powerful, who she knew it would be very difficult to bring a complaint against. her own friends were informing her of that fact in real time. anybody who has been a suggest of any unwanted touching, let
damaging to his candidacy, especially when on the flip side you have these very strong women candidates and you just had this year in which democratic women across the board, across the country, were winning in these primary races. it was the year of the woman. this is a moment where a narrative like this could really hurt a candidate like bernie sanders. not to mention, jackie, since the 2016 campaign, we also have experienced the big me too movement. exactly. exactly. it posed me, too, and i should have gotten to this in the last answer, saying i was too busy to handle this, it rings a little hollow. because these women did what they were supposed to do, they reported this. and they weren t treated with any sort of seriousness, at least according to this new york times report. in fact, one of them was joking, as you mentioned, he made light of her complaint. post-me too, if you re the top