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
credit to my colleague who pointed out how cruz s remarks on january the 6th, we ll, have a listen, quote, what does it take to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote, not even to consider the claims, conduct a ten-day emergency audit, consider the evidence? that was ted cruz echoing the exact language referenced in the indictment. that very today planned trump had in mind it according to prosecutors, we talk republicans senator mike lee was a big supporter of the fake electors scheme that promoted a key person behind it, john eastman, who reporting village is one of those six coconspirators in the indictment. text between lee and former white house chief of staff mark meadows in november of 2020 show lead saying he was at one point working, quote, 14 hours a day to help with the plan to prevent congress from certifying joe biden s win. last but not least, as republican senator from wisconsin ron johnson and johnson makes a cameo in the indictment
results. credit to my colleague who pointed out how cruz s remarks on january the 6th, we ll, have a listen, quote, what does it take to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote, not even to consider the claims, conduct a ten-day emergency audit, consider the evidence? that was ted cruz echoing the exact language referenced in the indictment. that very today planned trump had in mind it according to prosecutors, we talk republicans senator mike lee was a big supporter of the fake electors scheme that promoted a key person behind it, john eastman, who reporting village is one of those six coconspirators in the indictment. text between lee and former white house chief of staff mark meadows in november of 2020 show lead saying he was at one point working, quote, 14 hours a day to help with the plan to prevent congress from certifying joe biden s win. last but not least, as republican senator from wisconsin ron johnson and johnson makes a cameo in the i