Harry Litman: 'Donald Trump’s Main Defense REJECTED by Court, OPEN THE FLOODGATES'

Source:Harry Litman talking about no Jan 6. 2021 immunity for then President Donald J. Trump.

"Breaking news this morning: a D.C. court unanimously ruled that Trump cannot use presidential immunity as a defense to his involvement in January 6th. The court said the former president can be held civilly liable for the actions that occurred during the insurrection. This provides some insight on how the court may view Trump's presidential immunity argument with regards to the criminal charge." 

From Harry Litman

"At a rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, former President Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claims of fraud in both the November election and the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff, saying "We will never give up. We will never concede."  

From the Wall Street Journal 

"Rep. Mo Brooks has denied that the speech he gave at the Ellipse on January 6 helped incite the attack on the Capitol, and that his "kicking ass" remarks were taken out of context.

Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on the eve of the January 6 Committee's first televised hearings about the events which led up to riot, the Alabama congressman dismissed suggestions that his remarks in Washington, D.C. that day were calling for actual violence.

Brooks, who has been subpoenaed by the January 6 panel but is refusing to cooperate, along with four other GOP lawmakers, gave a speech in front of the crowd of Donald Trump supporters on the morning of January 6 wearing a bulletproof vest." 

From Newsweek

"Former President Donald Trump's remarks on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, urging his supporters to march on the Capitol as Congress was certifying the results of November's presidential election, are a key part of the case against Trump being made by House impeachment managers and are also being used by the lawyers who are defending him.

The House managers in Trump's Senate impeachment trial have already shown clips from the speech, in which Trump outlined a long list of grievances against the news media and against Republicans he deemed were insufficiently supportive, as well as a litany of false claims about how the election had been stolen from him." 

From NPR News

"The Jan. 6 select committee has heard testimony indicating that then-President Donald Trump — after rioters who swarmed the Capitol began chanting “hang Mike Pence” — expressed support for hanging his vice president, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The White House chief of staff at the time, Mark Meadows, was in the dining room off the Oval Office with Trump at one point during last year’s Capitol attack, the committee has been told. Meadows then left the dining room and informed other people nearby that Trump had signaled a positive view of the prospect of hanging the vice president, the panel heard." 

From Politico 

If you were to look at the January 6, 2021 case like it was a murder cases involving multiple defendants, with the person or people who actually physically committed the murder or murders, and the person who organized the murder or murders, the person who hired the people to murder the person or people that they wanted killed and told them when to do it, perhaps even provided the plan, the access, the financing for the murder or murders: 

Of course Donald Trump didn't actually walk down to Capitol Hill on that horrible day in January, 2021, with a team of thugs to physically take over the Congress, to stop the House and Senate from certifying the 2020 presidential election. But he knew who was in his crowd as far as the type of people that he was dealing with, which were his hardcore, militant supporters, some of those folks who are now in Federal prison for the role in this attempted insurrection. And he probably knew what they were willing to do for him as well. 

As Harry Litman said himself, what U.S. President's do on the job, on the clock (so to speak) and what they do as politicians, as political candidates, are two different things. (That's a paraphrase) Donald Trump is not being personally sued for his policy on China or Russia, his stance on the Affordable Care Act, etc. He's being sued for his role in the January 6, 2021, attempted insurrection, of the U.S. Government and attempt to violently throw out the 2020 presidential election results. And the decision by the Federal Court in Washington was correct.

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