Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
david, i wanted to read you this quote from a former u.s. attorney, john fishhook, jr. quoted in the wall street journal. a claim that his sfeech was protected by first amendment and acted in good faith, the two arguments could be at odds with each other. if you say, i m a liar, and the first amendment lets me do that, that undercuts your good faith defense. talk about how this all playing out, david. i think they re using stale talking points in pushing this first amendment defense. they had this you had in case he was charged with conspiracy, but he wasn t. thee using the old talking points where they really don t apply. speech in service of a crime is not protected speech. we prosecutor a lot of people in this office who engage in criminal speech. there was a woman recently who we convicted of soliciting a hit map to try to kill her husband.
attorney general that makes decisions about whether to release any of it or all of it, the attorney general decides because there s no requirement that the report be released at all. the mueller new the attorney general would release most of it because he said so. so they wrote the report. they wrote it for cnn, msnbc, nadler and adam schiff and all the others, they wrote the report for them. now, is that we prosecutor is supposed to do? is that an abuse of power is the proper use of our tax dollars? let s get back to fundamentals here. when you accuse somebody of an offense, or you suggest that you cannot exonerate them, then you have a prosecutor claims to be able to exonerate people in other first is not his job. how do they defend themselves? this one is completely contrary to a civilized society, to our constitutional system, completely contrary to it.