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
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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
why only the candidate who try to overturn the election? this is desperate stuff from tim scott. the truth is joe biden isn t involved in any indictments of donald trump. he won t even comment on them. his attorney general, merrick garland, outsourced at this latest investigation to special counsel jack smith to avoid any perception of politicization or weaponization. and that is for hunter biden, a trump-appointed attorney david weiss, again given huge freedom and discussion by garland who did upset congressional republicans. again, to quote bill barr of all people, you may not like this case, but it s a legitimate case. it s not weaponization. number four, what trump did pressuring mike pence to throw out votes was not a violation of the law, it was just a technical violation of the constitution. those don t count, apparently. this is the newest defense of trump rolled out by his newest lawyer, john lauro, on meet the press this morning. a technical violation of the