Posted on 08/03/2023 10:01:24 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Former President Donald Trump attorney John Lauro sees at least one silver lining in the Department of Justice’s latest indictment of his client: Trump will get to litigate why he believes the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.
“In 2020 Mr. Trump’s campaign had a few weeks to gear up and present evidence, and it was very difficult,” Lauro told Fox News host Bret Baier Tuesday night after special counsel Jack Smith announced the 45th president was being indicted in relation to his questioning of the integrity of the 2020 election.
“We now have the ability in this case to issue our own subpoenas, and we will re-litigate every single issue in the 2020 election in the context of this litigation,” Lauro added. “It gives President 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.”
Trump created “widespread mistrust” in his attempt to “overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election,” Smith alleged.
Further, the former president knew that his allegations of election fraud were false when he made them, the special counsel added.
Lauro refuted that Trump knowingly made false statements about the election, but even if he did, it is still protected free speech under the First Amendment.
“It’s not just issues of fraud. It’s also the fact that procedures were changed, undeniably so, that procedures at the state level were changed without the ability of the legislature to weigh in,” Lauro explained.
Trump’s intention on Jan. 6, 2021, was to pressure Congress not to certify the Electoral College vote, so the state legislatures could have one last chance to review and weigh in on how the elections in their states had been conducted.
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Be careful what you print they have ways of finding you.
I switch VPN connections and countries every 5 mins. Good luck.
Which states are going to flip from the way they voted in 2020?
That election was messed up from day one with the covid crap
going around. A lot of people voted from home, mail in and
others had differing arrangements. We voted from a mall that
was basically was still closed for the Covid shut down. They
had voters coming from varying counties around the mall. They
also had mail in voting by some states which isn’t normal.
Take care and have a good evening.
But its even better than that:
By accusing him of knowing he lost, they are challenging him to make the case that he believed he won - and that in turn opens the door to him arguing in defense of that belief.
The only way to convince a jury that he believed he won, is to make the case for WHY he believed it - which means presenting evidence and witnesses supporting that belief.
Up until now, no court has allowed him to make that case - the issue has always been process - lack of standing, lack of precedent, failure to meet deadlines, etc..
Now for the first time his defense team can make that case - and although he won’t convince that jury, the facts of the case will finally be heard by the public, and the facts are extremely compelling:
Hundreds of thousands of ballots were counted illegally in each of the contested swing states and those states were wrongly certified.
No court has ever ruled that these irregularities did not occur - the cases were dismissed on process technicalities.
washingtonexaminer.com
Presiding Judge Tanya Chutkan in Trump Case donated thousands to Obama
by Gabe Kaminsky, Investigative Reporter, August 01, 2023 11:32 PM
The judge assigned Tuesday to handle special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election case against former President Donald Trump poured thousands of dollars into Barack Obama’s campaign coffers, records show.
Trump faced an indictment at the hands of a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday on four new charges related to his alleged efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election and incite the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill in 2021.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will handle the case, was an Obama appointee in 2014 and contributed roughly $4,300 to his presidential campaign and victory fund combined between 2008 and 2012, according to campaign finance disclosures reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Chutkan’s donations were made while she worked at Boies Schiller Flexner, a major law firm with over a dozen offices across the United States. She also gave $250 in 2008 to the campaign for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), though the Federal Election Commission database doesn’t list her backing any federal candidates after September 2012.
The Obama ties are sure to propel Republicans to allege further that the indictment and case are doomed as politically motivated, as the GOP continues to further the idea that the Department of Justice and intelligence agencies have been weaponized against disfavored speech among conservatives. Trump was ordered to appear for his arraignment on Tuesday in Washington district court and is expected to plead not guilty to the four charges.
He is accused of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights, according to the indictment.
Trump said in a statement Tuesday that the charges were “nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election.”
John Lauro, an attorney for Trump, referred to the indictment as “an attack on free speech and political advocacy.”
Chutkan has been involved in another Trump-related case and denied a request from the former president in 2021 seeking to block the National Archives and Records Administration from providing records on the Capitol riot to the since-defunct House select committee probing the events of that day.
“Plaintiff does not acknowledge the deference owed to the incumbent President’s judgment. His position that he may override the express will of the executive branch appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power ‘exists in perpetuity,’” Chutkan wrote in her prior opinion.
They also had mail in voting by some states which isn’t normal.
Indeed remember the truck driver and photos of votes he brought in from another state.
We didn’t have an election we had a rigging fest.
Bonus round: Covered windows when the votes were counted.
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