https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/donald-trump-statement-january-6-committee/index.html
In response to the second public hearing of the January 6 committee, former President Donald Trump released a 12-page statement -- yes, 12 full pages! -- seeking to rebut the charges leveled against him.
It's filled with the usual name-calling, exaggerations and conspiracy theories that have dominated Trump's post-2020 election life. But it's also a window into the former President's psyche as the January 6 committee weighs whether to recommend a criminal indictment of Trump to the Department of Justice.
I went through Trump's, um, statement. The lines from it you need to see are below.
This would be a most interesting development if the Justice Department seeks an indictment against Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteBecause I don't believe if the case went to trial that any jury would convict him. It would then be three times Donald Trump would have been exonerated: two impeachments and a criminal trial.
Prosecutors routinely choose not to pursue charges when the case is weak. The case against Donald Trump is weak. But the Attorney General isn't going to easily be able to make that case if the Congress itself is referring the case to him!
The case against Donald Trump is built on bits and pieces of foil wrapping held together with kite string and bubble gum. A strong point in Donald Trump's favor is what I mentioned in a comment on another post: the little success the insurgency had was not based on any plot or plan coordinated and implemented by the insurgents as much as a policy and operational failure on the part of the Capitol Police.
I have been on Capitol Hill and within the Capitol many times. On one of the lower floors is a kind of police station. The police are all over the Capitol and its grounds. Once I put some camera equipment down while on the lawn outside the Capitol right around where the insurgents would gather years later and without thinking much about it I began setting up a tripod. Almost instantaneously, I was surrounded by police who seemed to appear out of nowhere and who informed me I couldn't do that.
Another time I was walking near the Capitol, and there was a uniformed man carrying across his chest what seemed to be a large machine gun. I was in shock for a moment. I wasn't used to that.
So, anyone at all familiar with Capitol Hill knows that there is an army up there. There was no evidence, till that army was tested by the insurgents, that the army had cracks and gaps that could be exploited so that the insurgents could breach the Capitol.
Any case against against the President has to explain how a plan to violently overthrow the Congress was going to be expected to succeed when the insurgents were mostly armed only with things like flagpoles, and in at least one case, a spear, and were up against men and women carrying guns and trained in their use.
And again, Ashli Babbitt was shot dead. And anyone else getting near the Congress would have been shot, too, based on the pictures of men in the Senate Chamber holding guns pointed at the doors into the chamber.
yes Trump is a true prophet - "'I can get away with killing someone in broad daylight in the middle of 5th avenue"
ReplyDelete"...middle of 5th Avenuw while carrying a BLM sign."
ReplyDeleteThere, I fixed it.