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He's definitely not reading the J6 report itself but the summaries have pushed him over the edge [1]
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Date: 2022-12-27
Trump is no doubt reading the MSM reports without actually tackling the final Select Committee report but seems now ready to lose it, implying that he remains POTUS and has immunity.
x I obviously wasn’t speaking literally when I tweeted that Trump should plead insanity, but it says quite a lot that some people thought I was!
https://t.co/F1nHtOoI5b — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 27, 2022
A Harvard law professor said Trump's lawyers should consider having him plead insanity at a trial.
The professor, Laurence Tribe, was commenting on Trump's response to the House's January 6 panel.
Tribe tweeted that based on the response, he didn't envy the lawyers who'd agree to represent Trump.
A Harvard law professor suggested that former President Donald Trump's legal team should get him to plead insanity if he goes on trial.
In a tweet on Sunday, the professor, Laurence Tribe, an expert on constitutional law, commented on Trump's video message to the House select committee on January 6, 2021.
"If this is the 'defense' at Trump's forthcoming trial, I don't envy the lawyers who agree to represent him," Tribe tweeted.
"They'd better be psychiatrists expert at reflexive projection and capable of getting their client to plead insanity," Tribe added.
Tribe was responding to Trump's rambling rebuttal to the committee posted on Truth Social on Friday, the day after the House panel released its 845-page report containing revelations about the former president's role before and during the Capitol riot.
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x This thread presents a brief summary of the substantive findings of the Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. My own interpretations of the report will follow later. 0/ — Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) December 26, 2022
Before the election, Trump knew that he was likely to lose, and planned to declare victory (a Big Lie) if he lost. 1/
On and after election day, Trump knew that he did lose, and declared victory anyway. 2/
Over and over again, Trump publicized specific claims of fraud immediately after being informed that they were false. 3/
Knowing that his advisors knew his claims of fraud to be false, Trump promoted people, such as Rudolph Giuliani, who would lie for him in public. 4/
Knowing that he had lost the election and that his claims of fraud were false, Trump made several deliberate efforts to overturn the electoral results and thus American democracy. 5/
In states he had lost, Trump personally pressured state officials to alter the electoral outcome. 6/
Knowing that the Department of Justice had investigated and found no evidence of fraud, Trump nevertheless sought to use it, via Jeffrey Clark, to pressure state officials to change electoral outcomes. 7/
Knowing that he had lost the electoral college vote, Trump oversaw an effort to create fake slates of electors. These entirely bogus documents, based on nothing, were then sent to the vice-president. 8/
Knowing that it was the vice-president's role only to count the electoral votes, Trump pressured the vice-president not to do so, on the theory that the vice-president could, in effect, choose the president. 9/
Even the person who devised the plan regarding the vice-president, John Eastman, knew it to be illegal. 10/
Knowing that all that remained was the formality of certifying Biden's victory, Trump encouraged supporters he knew to be armed and angry to violently overthrow our form of government, on the basis of lies.
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