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
it s sunday june 4th. i m ali velshi. after we can revelations regarding the special counsel jack smith classified documents investigation we got more news this morning about the future of that case. and we see news has exclusively learned that the federal grand jury that has been hearing evidence in that case will reconvene this week after a recent lol in proceeding. the purpose of the grand jury s upcoming meeting is unclear. it s not necessarily an indication that smith and his team are prepared to seek an indictment just yet. the justice department would not comment on the investigations status but previous reporting from out what s like the wall street journal has indicated that smith is wrapping up that part of his investigation that quote in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at donald trump s florida home. from top political aides to maintain staff. as the head of a large organization that s been one of the
which eric. could have been eric greitens, could have been eric schmidt. could have been a little known erik mcelroy, a third eric who happens to be in the same race. in any case, brightest and mitt claimed that they and trump were endorsing them. can t make the stuff up. meanwhile polls are still open in the state of washington where to republican members of congress are facing primary challenges over their votes to impeach donald trump. jamie herrera butler and that new house are still of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump after the january 6th attack on the capitol. republican voters in their district are deciding today whether to toss them out for it. congressman herrera butler s primary is also worth keeping an eye on because her trump backed challenger has well documented tied to white when extremists and white nationalist. he told an interviewer quote, i don t think that is anything wrong with there being a white people special interest group. and quo
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