as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
are not so sure this is going to work. it s really hard to with a square jaw and a straight face claim that the former president s acquittal in an impeachment is anything akin to the charges that jack smith has brought. that s one of those claims that you all have talked about very carefully and considerably, but i would just say that it must be very difficult in that legal circle for people to believe that that spaghetti on the wall is going to work. it s true, i have to say, that one of the strongest things in donald trump s favor, and which his lawyers have privately discussed, is the notion that this is untested law. we have never seen a former president charged with a crime. yet, as you have said very well, we have never seen a president try to hold on to power and refuse to accept the free and
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rick and charlie. charlie, this is not surprising. what does surprise me is the nature of the argument that they are making as marc elias just laid out for us, the fact that they front loaded this with procedural off ramps. they didn t really get to this question of whether or not donald trump did in fact participate in an insurrection. no, look, i have not had a chance to read this and i m not a lawyer, but inevitably this was going to end up in the u.s. supreme court. and i m very sympathetic to the argument. i am skeptical of how it is going to play out. donald trump was the architect of an attempt to violently overturn a free and fair election. if that is not insurrection, i don t know what is. i do think it comes under this amendment. however, i think the chances of the u.s. supreme court removing him from the ballot disqualifying him, i think that is a very, very small one. and i think the people ought to keep their expectations somewhat
uprising of the kind that we saw with donald trump. so, yes, that s what it s for. i think it is really important that we stop changing the rules for trump because it might hurt his feelings or upset his supporters. that s how we got here. and look, i think that marc has a good point about textualism. this supreme court is obsessed with textualism, let them have it. this is the text, and the text says this. when you look at the effort against perry, do you think this could then open the floodgates for efforts to keep other members of congress off the ballot? yes, it should. every single person who voted against trying to impeach donald trump is basically somebody who was aiding and providing comfort to january 6th. this is you ask this to look at this from a thousand miles away. this is the biggest concern. the fact that we have to have this mad scramble for all these individual states and all these individual activists to organize themselves, to put themselves in danger, to stop