Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on him. As far as fani willis goes and jack smith and everything else, again, we can point you back to it and play it for you again, what we were saying in 2019. If donald trump lost in 2020, he would run again, and hed run again simply to avoid all the crimes he was committing. Im not good at math, but that was four years ago. Four years ago, we were saying he will run again so he can try to avoid jail. Going to jail. Here we are. I must say, a lot of people were saying that, so its hard to believe
Republicans and pundits on fox news are impugning the justice system and the justice department, that he used to lead. he knows it is full of non-partisan people who are pursuing the law and, in this view, the indictment was quite strong. you re absolutely right. the cheeseboro memo, the lawyer from wisconsin who was advising trump, appears to be the blueprint for the false elector scheme. there s some covering language in there. for example, he said, we should only execute this if there are plausible legal claims that we think are going to show fraud. of course, that wasn t by the time false electors were voting in december 2020, there were no plausible legal claims. they went forward anyway, and that s the crux of the issue here. joe, i also want to go to what you said about jury tampering and trump s, you know, inflammatory criticism of prosecutors and now the judge in the federal case. i ve been talking to legal