Months, the former president of the United States has been indicted, arrested, and a range. And lets face it, weve become oddly familiar with how this all goes. Theres the release of the indictment itself, helicopters following black suvs, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on truth social. Theres a bit of a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to set in. But this one did feel different, because it is different. It felt bigger, because it is bigger. The indictment filed by Special Counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the people. Of course, like any criminal defendant, trump is innocent until proven guilty. There will be a trial, and his legal team will mount a defense. But no matter how it ends, this is the one that historians will be talking about 100 years from now. Trump is now facing four criminal counts in this case, in
this phase, if you are looking at this level of legal threat? well, a good defense lawyer has to have that conversation with their client, to advise them about their legal threat. their arguments on the law and what they think whether they think they will fly or not. and also what they factually think will happen. in the three criminal cases he is facing currently, perhaps, soon to be for. that being said it is ultimately the clients decision based on that advice. i think that here it is clear that donald trump is going to try to spin in sort of the public. because of the things he s been saying so far are just not anything that goes to a factual defense or a legal defense. in any of these cases. so i just don t see and that
that. no one ever suggested that. president trump actually, he has said that. by the way, there is another the president asked him to violate the constitution. he said the president asked him to violate the constitution. which is another way of saying he had to break the law. no, that s wrong. that s wrong. a technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. i, mean that sounded to me like a new argument, or a new one there. andrew, what did you make of that? well, to go to neil s point, a technical violation of the constitution, which is overthrowing the democratic process by which we elect a president, that is neither technical nor is it legal. this is i understand that this is defense detour and they try to throw things added to see what might stick with the public.
republicans included in this democratic witch hunt against donald trump. when it comes to stopping trump s over attempts to overthrow our democracy, it was not democrats but republicans who actually stepped in and stopped. and they were doing their jobs, like rusty bowers, the former arizona house speaker who refused to go along with rudy giuliani scheme to go around the arizona state legislature and replace illegitimate electors with fake ones. a conservative republican, i don t like the results of the presidential election, i voted for president trump and worked hard to reelect him. but i cannot and will not entertain a suggestion that we violate current law to change the outcome of a certified election. republicans like brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state pushed back against trump s request to find votes and explains about 5000 people voted in georgia. raffensperger s response, well, mister president, the challenge you, have the data you have, is wrong. the actual n
senate can do or the judiciary committee can do to compel that to be the case? i suppose that congress could pass a law requiring amara s, requiring that all proceedings should be televised. i don t think that s going to happen. the chief justice, i understand that competing considerations here. i think this is a special case and i think there should be televised access to the case. you ve known the president for so long, and he came in at such a difficult moment in history. part of the impact of trump questioning the outcome is that an overwhelming majority of republican voters still to this day it don t believe that president biden was legitimately elected. despite court cases and everything. how do you think do you think he bears the scars of that? i don t think he bears the scars of that. look, the job of the president biden has done in these two years, he s worked with republicans, he s working with mitch mcconnell to get things done. he s worked with kevin mccarthy to g