Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. , the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in
Speaking out for the first time. Why . This is not a normal election in any way. Certainly not one defined by policy debate. In one fell swoop, Donald Trump laid the groundwork to dispute the 2024 election just as did he in 2020. He threatened mass arrests of election officials, political opponents and critics and it landed like a Thunder Clap in the Saturday Night truth social post. It read in part, quote, when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which will include longterm Prison Sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials. Those involved in Inscrupulous Behavior will be sought out and caught and prosecuted at levels unfortunately never seen before in our country. And now you should know it includes a lot of nonsensical caps. A couple of long words that make me wonder who wrote i
Bound, Lieutenant Colonel ami mcgrath, thank you so much for spending some time with us. The beat are ari melber starts now. 4 00, 5 00 and 9 00, i am there. I am ari melber. Today the eyes of the nation were on the white house where a president s Lawful Extension was briefly challenged by a violent insurrection. He went about a somber task. Awarding a high honor to Police Officers who battled terrorists at the capitol. Biden harris spoke at the rose garden with officers in attendants. The president spoke of bravery and truth in defense of democracy. Our democracy did survive. Truths defeated lies. We did overcome. Thats because the women and men of the u. S. Capitol police. These officers are heroes. These officers are patriots. Patriots and truths. As maga leaders initially thrown off battle over the defensible set of actions found themselves following trump in defending or minimizing the terror on air and online. The Traditional Branch is dealing with these prosecutions. One federal