Trump’s lawyer vows to use new charges to ‘re-litigate every single issue’ of the 2020 election.
An attorney who is representing former President Donald Trump in his latest federal criminal indictment vowed to use the charges to “re-litigate every single issue in the 2020 election in the context of this litigation.”
The case gives Trump “an opportunity that he has never had before, which is to have subpoena power since January 6 in a way that can be exercised in federal court,” attorney John Lauro said in a Fox News interview.
Trump is charged with conspiring to overturn his election loss in the 2020 presidential race by pushing fraud claims he knew were false, which prosecutors say amounted to an effort to obstruct the electoral process.
Lauro’s comments suggest that the former president’s legal strategy in this case could include an attempt by his lawyers to portray Trump’s myriad false claims of widespread election fraud in late 2020 as legitimate concerns at the time, regardless of whether or not they were correct.
— Kevin Breuninger
DC democrats don’t ‘get it’... the world outside of DC reacts to all of this very differently than they do. Going after Trump on ‘thought crimes’ is insane.
If the indictment is based on his issuing false statements, then his defense is obviously to go to court and prove his statements were not false and had merit. In a fair legal system, he would be given the chance to provide proof to that effect by using subpoena power and by calling witnesses. We’ll see if he’s allowed to do either. It will tell us a lot about what kind if a country we live in.
It’s obvious even to me that the legally prudent first step is a motion to dismiss the case as a gross violation of the First Amendment. Is Trump’s atty posturing, or are they going to delay the such a motion until AFTER the subpoenas and discovery have occured (which leaves this hanging over Trump’s head during the campaign)? If the latter, Trump truly places the nation above himself. The Judge would have to approve the subpoenas and demands for docs and depositions. Since she is a Dem team member, I can’t see her allowing trump to get what he wants out of this.