Posted on 05/08/2023 6:56:58 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump has a "moral responsibility" for what unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but it will remain up to the Justice Department to determine if he's legally responsible as well, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is campaigning against Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, said Sunday.
"The question is whether there is a criminal responsibility, and that's a judgment that the Department of Justice is going to have to make," Hutchinson, also a former U.S. attorney, told NBC's "Meet the Press."
His comments came while he was discussing the convictions of four members of the Proud Boys, including their former leader, in connection with a plot to attack the Capitol to keep Trump in power.
The cases were "difficult" to make, as there was a "high bar" to prove, and the federal attorneys were successful, said Hutchinson, and the verdicts reflect the "seriousness of the offense of Jan. 6, and undermining our democracy."
As for what happens with Trump, though, Hutchinson said he thinks the answer will lie in the ballot box, "not what happens in the courtroom."
Meanwhile, Trump is at the top of all current polls, but when asked why voters think he is the best candidate, Hutchinson responded that Trump's numbers have gone up "because he's played the victim" in prosecutions against him, particularly in the New York case involving Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
"You look back to the true numbers, which is after the last midterm elections, and his numbers were down," said Hutchinson. "He was responsible for a lot of the failure in growth that we expected and wins in a number of different states, and so his numbers were down."
He added that he jokes sometimes that Bragg is Trump's "campaign manager" because his indictment caused Trump's numbers to
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Prove it, jackass.
Asa, passing gas into a force 9 gale.
And you have moral responsibility for betraying the Republic and letting it be sacked by the communist, godless Democratic Party!
Asa has a moral responsibility to shut his lying mouth and drop out of the public eye.
Good thing biden is without controversy. More popular than JFK and smarter than Abe Lincoln.
So is his platform the same as the others...He’s not Trump?
Asa Hutchinson is going nowhere...nothing but an empty suit with nary a brain in his body!!! God Bless & Protect our next POTUS, Donald John Trump!!! “AMEN”!!!
What a blowhard.
Another squishy Republican looking to split the vote. He’ll probably run as an independent when he doesn’t win the primary.
“Asa Hutchinson, who is campaigning against Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination”
Your nomination is dead in the water, Asa. I can see that, why can’t you?
Asa, you are a traitor to the Republican party.
You represent no one except yourself.
Go the f _ _ _ k away.
For the MILLION plus people who WERE there, and SAW, and KNOW what went on...Asa needs to talk to EYE WITNESS accounts. No one there was trying to OVERTHROW a Gov’t. We simply, honestly made a feeble effort to our ELECTED representatives to REPRESENT US, and ask for a more close examination of the obvious fraud that went on in several places. Is that asking too much? Asa is wrong, and does not get my support. Get on the RIGHT side and let’s take back our government OF the PEOPLE, FOR the People and BY the people.
“Hutchinson, also a former U.S. attorney, told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Natch.
They wouldn’t have him on the show unless he was willing to bash fellow Republicans, especially Trump.
And Republicans going on the likes of NBC and bash fellow Republicans, is the equivalent of Axis Sally or Lord Haw Haw going on Nazi Germany radio to bash their respective countries.
Itâs hypocritical how commiecrats can encourage a whole summerâs worth of riots and never be held accountable for it!
What is it about Arkansas that produces people like the Clintons and this clown?
No one gives a s___t what Asa Hutchinson says. Articles like this are red meat click bait.
It’s 10:30 am. Shouldn’t Asa be drinking a Bloody Mary at his country club?
GTH
GFY, you back-stabbing prick.
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