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
the doj inquest was seeking a day to begin his jail sentence, which archer kept delaying. archertown and it up testifying to the house oversight committee behind closed doors this past week. and republicans wasted no time taking to the airwaves to hype his testimony up. every day, this scandal becomes more credible. he also said that hunter biden was under immense pressure to call washington, d. c., immediately and try to get chutkan fired. that s the ukrainian prosecutor. devin archer was clear that the value hunter biden brought to the business arrangement was the biden brand, the biden brand, of course, is joe biden. he involve his father and business transactions all over the world. today took a huge step towards implicating joe biden. well, that would be quite the bombshell, except the transcript shows that is not what archer said at all. question, are you aware of any wrongdoing by vice president biden? archer, no, i m not aware of any. so, based on everything you saw
have any knowledge of joe biden having any involvement with burisma? archer, no, not direct, no. no involvement of joe? archer, no. biden with burisma? archer, no. my only thought is that i think burisma would ve gone out of business if it didn t have the brand attached to it. well, well. know joe biden involvement in burisma, no wrongdoing by joe biden. his words. their star witnesses words. that whole talking point from comer and jordan about biden having ukrainian prosecutor, victor shokin, fired because chauvin was investigating burisma, whose board hunter biden sat on? archer himself acknowledged, under oath, to democratic congressman dan goldman, that shokin was actually good for burisma. he was soft on alleged corruption. as for the bombshell bravery allegations against the bidens, as philip bump writes in the washington post, carter said, under penalty of perjury, that he was never aware of any such bribe. offered to hunter biden or
biden? archer, no, i m not aware of any. so, based on everything you saw and heard and observed, did you have any knowledge of joe biden having any involvement with burisma? archer, no, not direct, no. no involvement of joe? archer, no. biden with burisma? archer, no. my only thought is that i think burisma would ve gone out of business if it didn t have the brand attached to it. well, well. know joe biden involvement in burisma, no wrongdoing by joe biden. his words. their star witnesses words. that whole talking point from comer and jordan about biden having ukrainian prosecutor, victor shokin, fired because chauvin was investigating burisma, whose board hunter biden sat on? archer himself acknowledged, under oath, to democratic congressman dan goldman, that shokin was actually good for burisma. he was soft on alleged corruption. as for the bombshell bravery allegations against the bidens, as philip bump writes in the washington post, carter said, under penalty of perjury, that he wa