Special counsel can present ‘substantial’ new evidence against Trump in January 6 case, judge rules
Special counsel can present ‘substantial’ new evidence against Trump in January 6 case, judge rules
Special counsel Jack Smith this week will be allowed to file hundreds of pages of legal arguments and evidence gathered in the 2020 election subversion and January 6 US Capitol attack criminal case against former President Donald Trump, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
"The brief due Thursday (9/26) – which is expected to exceed 200 pages, including exhibits, and is meant to convince courts Trump should be prosecuted for alleged obstruction and conspiracy criminal activity — is a rare avenue for evidence to be aired in court before a trial.
Chutkan of the DC District Court, in a six-page opinion, said she would allow such an outsized briefing because the Supreme Court, in its recent decision to give Trump’s actions while president immunity from prosecution, has directed her as the trial judge to look closely at facts in the case to decide if some allegations could move forward to trial."
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Everybody knows that this will go absolutely nowhere despite what everyone wants to think. Trump is in the club, and the duopoly will never charge one of their own.
This is not a both sides moment.
Trump has spent his entire life trying to get into "the club". The specific "club" he was trying to get into was the Hollywood one for many years. The Apprentice got him close, but the "reality TV" club isn't quite the same as the "Hollywood club". Luckily, for Trump, it was enough to get him into the political club. I'm still not quite sure how, but it was. How it got him into the presidential club is even further baffling, but he did that too. Don't get me wrong, I understand how he got elected. But I don't understand how he survived the primaries. (I mean I do, but I'm just sad about it.)
But Trump, assuming he loses the upcoming election, is on his way out.
You're probably right that he'll never be in jail. He'll never serve a day in prison. But he'll be in court. He'll be in court until the day he dies. It's not perfect. It's not what he deserves. But it's what'll happen, and I'll take that.
After the election all the talk of trump being charged will fade away like yesterday's news. Much the way all the Republican talk of Hunter Biden fizzled to nothing after Biden backed out.
Had Hillary never pushed her piped piper strategy he would have never been elected. Over $1b in free advertising did that
He was found guilty of 37 felonies. Pretty hard to keep the "it's a conspiracy they'll never find him guilty" point when "they" (the justice system) already did.
Yet he's free as a bird, almost as if it's all political theater
Theater is absolutely the wrong word.
Ineffective due to corruption? Maybe. But people are genuinely chasing these prosecutions with the intent of justice; it's not just "for show"
And he has faced consequences for those felony convictions, right?
...Right?