This time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convicts some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Were actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a serious one for our country. Thank you for being with us here tonight. We know you had every choice in the world. But we are happy to have you here on what will go down in u. S. History as a black letter, bold faced date, August 1st 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading president ial candidate of the Republican Party was indicted in Federal Court, accused of lead
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser
2020 election results. if they are denying about the past while seeking power you can bet they will act on those lies in the future. you can see the quote here from the washington post. they are running in every region of the country and nearly every state. over half, 174, are running for what are called safely republican seats, while another 51 are in tightly contested races. a sobering account from the washington post. the reason those numbers matter is if you follow politics you probably know while we hold these elections across the country, the midterms have every house seat for example up for grabs, the numbers, the way the districts are drawn and other factors mean of the races are all by decided. when they refer to safe seats they re referring to republicans who are vowing in the future to do what they failed to do in the past in some sense, which is act on the lies and say, whether they win or lose, they ll work to keep their party in power. if that lie becomes a
say, well, here is a pending litigation. i can tell he s a lawyer. you are allowed to file all kinds of lawsuits, things that go right up to the line of frivolous. you are not allowed to knowingly file criminal or fraudulent suits for the purpose of executing or supporting other crimes. that is what they stand accused of today. i said it before, but i should note that of the six described unnamed co-conspirators, of the six, at least five are lawyers. and this is a lawyer s coup. they tried to paper this over in the same way that, you know, dictators in foreign countries hold elections that aren t real elections because they want to say they are democratically elected. this was a coup that was legalized with people described now as indicted co-conspirators of the president. there is a bunch of different places where smith is at pains to say, here is the first amendment protected speech. you can lie. no one is saying we are indicting for lying. obviously, it is the case. the first a
co-conspirators, of the six, at least five are lawyers. and this is a lawyer s coup. they tried to paper this over in the same way that, you know, dictators in foreign countries hold elections that aren t real elections because they want to say they are democratically elected. this was a coup that was legalized with people described now as unindicted co-conspirators of the president. there is a bunch of different places where smith is at pains to say, here is the first amendment protected speech. you can lie. no one is saying we are indicting for lying. obviously, it is the case. the first amendment protects politicians from lying to people, a huge part of the job. and then here is what he was doing that was fraud. there is a even this moment on paragraph 54 that goes to talking about the unindicted co-conspirators, we think it s chesebro. chesebro. it is so hard for him to not be cheesebro. he s an an herons demonic device. it basically says, look,