Posted on 06/21/2022 4:24:03 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Would be glorious if Trump can put on his case before the cameras and media forced to cover it all.
That would be a grand dish served cold.
The law is whatever the Democrats want it to be.
Trump needs to stay FAR away from that!
First of all.. his appearance would cause people to actually watch.
2nd of all.. things he says there could be used against him in legal proceedings.
No one is watching this circus, just ignore it Trump. Democratic poll numbers have actually gone DOWN since this started. Let it die.
And guess who knows how to do great TV...
Trump likely won’t have to.
There is no way Deep State allows him to do this.
And that says it all, really.
Doesn’t it though?
Yep. At some point, generally with experience, people start to assess things as they really are, not what they look like on paper.
The fact that a majority of Congress doesn't follow its rules means that the rules legitimately don't apply. A majority of the body controls the body, including the rules. While the committee and the subpoenas are dishonest and an abuse of power, neither of those things has a remedy in court. Certainly neither is a crime.
Shorter version - a majority of congress signed on to the subpoenas. No court is going to step into the mess.
But get this. If the parties were reversed, the courts (which are politically aligned) could well rule the other way.
The press isn't going to turn honest. There is no force capable of creating that result. Trump will not get equal time, but he is able to make his argument using agreeable microphones.
The OP suggests that the appearance would NOT be with the Committee, but rather just him telling his side and the media being forced to give him air time to make his case.
The legal force supposedly comes from an executive order that changed FCC interpretation of certain parts of statutory law.
It’s all a pipe dream, not going to happen. And FWIW, I don’t think it matters one way or the other. The people have figured out that the government and the press are big fat liars.
He’s not demanding equal time to appear before the Democrat committee - that would indeed be stupid.
He is demanding equal media coverage for rebuttal of their lies - to be broadcast from a place of his choosing, featuring representatives and witnesses of his choosing. It could be a classic Trump rally or whatever.
The networks that carried the Democrat farce would have to provide equal coverage to his presentation, whatever it is.
I don’t think this article is about him participating in the current “hearings” but is rather about him being allowed equal time on the networks to state his case - completely separate from the J6 hearings.
It could be commercials or anything he chooses for the set time. Imagine CBS or ABC or CNN all showing 40 one-hour shows in prime time that were designed and produced by Trump.
lol I can dream...
Look at what they accuse and then reverse the perpetrators and it makes perfect sense. Every time, it’s what democraps do.
Current SCOTUS would decide the law and I like our chances.
Equal time. Trump could rebut the J6 narrative and also lay out the fraud that led to it.
It’s be well produced, informative, and entertaining. Would have a yuuuge audience.
Hope he sues for this.
Not even those who win defamation suits get equal time. All they get is damages and a buried correction.
And Trump prevailing in a defamation suit isn’t going to happen. No court would allow it. What I mean to insinuate there is that the courts are just as much hacks as the J6 Committee is.
“the cameras and media forced to cover it all”
Your more optimistic than me my friend.....the lib media has blacking out information that they don’t want the American people to know down to a science.
I doubt President Trumps side would get 10% of the exposure from the media that those hearings have gotten so far.
Can he use his equal time to force the fake news media to air 2000 Mules? I would split a gut laughing.
Political speech.
Equal time isn’t about defamation. It’s about equal access to media because said media is operating under a federal granting of the air waves.
Yea. Trump can play evidence of the steal on all the networks and channels that aired the J6 hearings.
Equal time is well established federal law.
He has a shot at this.
Would be glorious.
The equal time rule only applies in the context of a political campaign. The way I took the OP, it is about changes to section 230, outlets becoming editors, and similar regulations.
The J6 Committee was a political campaign ad. Clearly.
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