Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
favor from firing jeff sessions, s attorney general, to trying to use the doj, as we just learned this week, in his coup attempt. and now jesse waters wants us to think, oh, he was just being sarcastic at all those rallies. i mean, donald trump, when he does sarcastic, you know sarcasm. he wasn t sarcastic on the debate stage in 2016 when he pointed at hillary and said, i m going to appoint a special prosecutor. if i m president, you re going to be in jail. we know that he spent his presidencies using pressuring the doj, the fbi, to investigate clinton. amen, at times i m just going to see off the top my head, just off the top of my head, joe biden, barack obama, hillary clinton, eric holder, andrew mccabe, jim comey, robert mueller, how many people has donald trump said openly he wants locked up over the years? listen, it s always projection with the republican or trump allies, i should say, you know? when they are talking about what they are accusing democrats of doing, it s w
political speech and political interpretation. those are now felonies punishable by decades in jail. what this says from jack smith is a complete violation of an individual first amendment rights. it s garbage dressed up with a legal the source. it s criminalizing thoughts and criminalizing speech. you have every right to think and election might be rigged or fixed. yes, greg, you do. you do have a right to think or say that. you know who agrees with you? jack smith, in his a diamond, right on the second page, paragraph three, he says the defendant had a right, like every american, to speak publicly about the election and even tickling falsely that there been outcome determinative fraud during the election and that he won. however, smith goes on to say, the defendant didn t just speak out about the election or make false claims, he pursued unlawful means of discounting
department of justice in his favor from firing jeff sessions, s attorney general, to trying to use the doj, as we just learned this week, in his coup attempt. and now jesse waters wants us to think, oh, he was just being sarcastic at all those rallies. i mean, donald trump, when he does sarcastic, you know sarcasm. he wasn t sarcastic on the debate stage in 2016 when he pointed at hillary and said, i m going to appoint a special prosecutor. if i m president, you re going to be in jail. we know that he spent his presidencies using pressuring the doj, the fbi, to investigate clinton. amen, at times i m just going to see off the top my head, just off the top of my head, joe biden, barack obama, hillary clinton, eric holder, andrew mccabe, jim comey, robert mueller, how many people has donald trump said openly he wants locked up over the years? listen, it s always projection with the republican or trump allies, i should say, you know? when they are talking about what they are accusi