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
remember, you are protecting our democratic republic, it s not just partisan, it s patriotism. i mean, one last thing i would say is what we ve discovered since january six via the january six committee, via reporting, via this indictment as you have senators, house members, and supreme court justices all either directly or indirectly involved in attempt to overturn the election. and none of them have been held to account. they are all going still to be in place come 2024. that is very worrying to me. it is, and if it wasn t for jack smith, donald trump will not be held accountable as well. it s deeply troubling we have americans who believe that this democratic republic, this experiment really came, and they don t feel the urgency that you and i do, maybe because we have family members and other parts of the world when they see democracy come and go, and it s not going to be there forever, they don t get it. that is the thing for me. my fellow americans, understand, it could happe
we need democrats to fight harder in the senate. remember, you are protecting our democratic republic, it s not just partisan, it s patriotism. i mean, one last thing i would say is what we ve discovered since january six via the january six committee, via reporting, via this indictment as you have senators, house members, and supreme court justices all either directly or indirectly involved in attempt to overturn the election. and none of them have been held to account. they are all going still to be in place come 2024. that is very worrying to me. it is, and if it wasn t for jack smith, donald trump will not be held accountable as well. it s deeply troubling we have americans who believe that this democratic republic, this experiment really came, and they don t feel the urgency that you and i do, maybe because we have family members and other parts of the world when they see democracy come and go, and it s not going to be there forever, they don t get it. that is the thing for me