Accountability. well, on to this. the supreme court set to take up the colorado case to disqualify donald trump from the ballot. they will hear oral arguments on february 8th. here s president trump reacting to that news. the supreme court is taking the case from colorado, and so [cheers and applause] and you know what i do find and, you know, maybe say it, maybe don t but i say it, a democrat judge appointed by, let s say, obama, they re the down they say we re appointed, that s the end. when you are a republican judge and you re appointed by, let s say trump, they go out of their way to hurt you so that they can show that they have been fair, fair, honorable people. it s an amazing difference. republican judges want to go out of their way to be fair and unbiased and even to a point
Let s say trump decides, as he is entitled, to not take the stand. they ve got all this testimony from ten key people saying, not just that they disagree with what trump said, about overturning the election, but they specifically told him, and that includes pence, the attorney general bill barr, and it includes pat cipollone, the white house counsel, and seven other people, and you go through the governor of arizona, the governor of michigan, sitting court justice in wisconsin. a jury can sit here and say, oh, this is what trump says. here is sworn testimony from ten people saying, oh, now, i
Attempting or actually subverting a lawful function of government. of course, that lawful function of government is certifying who is the next president. even people who like trump, or don t like trump, yes, let s certify, let s decide who the next president is, and in this indictment, jack smith, and the grand jury have said, hey, look, the standard here, according to what you read, is dishonesty. much easier concept to understand for a jury. dishonesty versus conspiracy, or obstruction, which can wind up being a little bit abstract, and then you read through the indictment, and it is stunning. let s say trump decides, as he is entitled, to not take the
Incidents. this is coming from top down. donald trump knows exactly what he is doing. when he goes on social media and shares a picture of judge chutkan with a post calling her an activist judge. accusing her running election interference. just today, the trump campaign released this video attacking special counsel jack smith for subpoenaing access to his twitter account. how dare a lowlife prosecutor, ranged jack smith breaking my former twitter account. without informing me, and indeed trying to completely high disinterested-y from me. it s obvious what don trump is doing, what he is trying to cultivate, a sense of menace. the possibility of reprisal, retribution, violence, from his die hard supporters. when he calls the prosecutors calling him deranged, accusing him of committing an atrocity. this is me bending over backwards to be charitable. let s say trump turns to be unbothered when his supporters make good on the implicit
This is me bending over backwards to be charitable. let s say trump turns to be unbothered when his supporters make good on the implicit requests in his inflammatory language. i want to be clear, because i think this gets memory hold. we re not talking about hypotheticals or thought experiments were obstructions. a few months ago a qanon supporter bashed in the head of nancy pelosi s elderly husband with a hammer after breaking into her house and describing how he was there for the speaker who he wanted to torture in her own home. that man, after that break-in, was then excused and defended, outright lied about by nearly everyone on the political right. from elon musk to donald trump himself. in the run up to the 2018, another thing that has been memory hold. a guy with the trump than who mailed pipe bombs, the didn t