Glimpse into the defenses lawyers will make on the stand. Here is jonna lauro on meet the press. The defense is quite simple. Donald trump, president trump, believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. And as any american citizen, he had a right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had a right to petition governments around the country, state governments. Based on his grievances that Election Irregularities had occurred. He had every right to speak about the important issues that were taking place after the election. A technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. That is just plain wrong. Except a technical violation of the constitution by definition is still a violation of the constitution. The constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and our constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections, and trying to overthrow the government. Moments later, democratic congressman jamie raskin respo
Lawyers will make on the stand. Here is jonna lauro on meet the press. The defense is quite simple. Donald trump, president trump, believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. And as any american citizen, he had a right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had a right to petition governments around the country, state governments. Based on his grievances that Election Irregularities had occurred. He had every right to speak about the important issues that were taking place after the election. A technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. That is just plain wrong. Except a technical violation of the constitution by definition is still a violation of the constitution. The constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and our constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections, and trying to overthrow the government. Moments later, democratic congressman jamie raskin responded to lauro by making th
interesting things about the georgia case is that there was this journalist who happened to stumble upon the december 2020 fake electors meeting in georgia, who will provide testimony, i believe sometime this week. he s the first witness whose name has actually surfaced in this case. it s clear that even as willis is about to bring charges, that she is still investigating. there s still more details to be uncovered here. yeah, absolutely, and what s fascinating about that is just how much of this was carried out in the open. like, i guess the one of the only people who have been there as a witness to see what was going on with these electors, but they were talking about this openly. in the post election period, they were talking on the day that the electors, the real electors, were casting their electoral votes, december 14th, 2020. it was in many publications that these alternate electors were also meeting. what s fascinating reading
with this are the people who suffered at the hands of this scheme. what about ruby freeman and her daughter? and what happened to them. and they re powerful testimony during the january 6th committee? because of this scheme and the lies that were told on behalf of donald trump and giuliani, all these other people with these ridiculous claims of voter fraud, which didn t exist. what about all the lies of the police officers that suffered on january 6th as a result of donald trump s behavior and this incitement of that insurrection? what about the four police officers who committed suicide after january six who responded to them and their families? and how the republicans and trump have been so disrespectful to their effort, to the officers that responded that day, to harry dunn, to michael fanone. do all the others who have been bremen off to speak out,? there have been so many lives that have been shattered and impacted, and careers impacted because of what this guy has done and the en