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By Bess Levin
On Sunday morning, Meet the Press aired an interview with Donald Trump in which, to no one’s surprise, the former president told a ridiculous amount of lies about everything from the value of bacon (it’s not five times higher than when he was president) to infanticide (spoiler alert, Democrats don’t really know about that practice). But is that probably a little bigger challenge in the grand scheme of things?The moment Trump blew up a key legal defense in his Jan. 6 case and made it far less difficult. that the Department of Justice get a conviction.
This happened when Trump, when asked through NBC’s Kristen Welker if he would “take the initiative . . . in the end” seeking to cancel the 2020 election, rather than simply following the recommendation of his lawyers, he replied: “Believe it or not. “Ready? Oh, right. That’s my decision.
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As more than one legal expert later noted, this was an incredibly damning admission by the former president. “Donald Trump’s defense until January 6 was based on one basic thing: ‘I trusted the advice of my lawyers, not ‘I have no criminal bad intentions, it was my lawyers who told me to do this,'” the former interim said. Attorney General Neal Katyal told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. And she gave it to him, through masterful interviews and playing with her ego, to say, ‘Oh, no, I did it all myself. ‘And if you’re Jack Smith this morning, you say, ‘Thanks, that’s what I thought, and yes, you hired this kind of crazy, crazy lawyers, but at the end of the day, it was you from the beginning to the end. “He shows his kind of guilt on the spot, and I think that justifies this case . . . much more easily. “
Similarly, underscoring how incriminating the interview was, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told Psaki, “The other thing Kristen Welker made the president say is necessarily part of this ploy, part of this obstruction, part of the 241 civil rights system, which is the prevention of voter counting. If you remember, everyone thought there would be a red mirage, that on election night, Trump would be in the lead because mail-in votes wouldn’t have been counted. And, of course, Trump said, ‘Stop counting. ‘” Well, it’s a crime. He said at the time, and he just said it on NBC: “Stop counting votes. “Well, that’s not allowed. That’s part of the plan here. One, as Neal said, not to depend on a lawyer, and second, to say that he sought to save votes from American citizens. “
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Meanwhile, on the platform formerly known as Twitter, constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe said:
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So, yes, in case it was not clear, not everything went very well for the ex when it came to proving his innocence.
Ron DeSantis is furious that [checks grades] adults are allowed to use what they need to work.
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The Republican lawmaker doesn’t know with what other tactics he can say Republicans have nothing against Joe Biden.
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