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
main political opposition figure at the time, who was hillyard. i mean, you literally cannot make this stuff up. and here s the thing, to your point about the love. i mean, you can almost explain his children s willingness to embarrass themselves for their fathers love, among, perhaps, other incentives. but how do you explain boxes hosts like jesse waters debase -ing himself like this? watch. it was a gassed, a sarcastic lock her up chants, remember? but last night, appeared sexually arauz at the thought of donald trump imprisoned. oh, really? the lock her up chants that were all throughout the 2016 were suddenly sarcastic? i mean, donald trump has done more, mehdi, to weaponize the department of justice in his
the pro democracy figure in this comparison. i mean, that is the epitome of shameless. by the way, this was also the same donny junior who, to your point, tweeted out, lock her up, about, wait for it, his dad s main political opposition figure at the time, who was hillyard. i mean, you literally cannot make this stuff up. and here s the thing, to your point about the love. i mean, you can almost explain his children s willingness to embarrass themselves for their fathers love, among, perhaps, other incentives. but how do you explain boxes hosts like jesse waters debase-ing himself like this? watch. it was a gassed, a sarcastic lock her up chants, remember? but last night, appeared sexually arauz at the thought of donald trump imprisoned. oh, really? the lock her up chants that were all throughout the 2016 were suddenly sarcastic? i mean, donald trump has done more, mehdi, to weaponize the