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Originally Posted by cd288
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Funny how you conveniently leave out the fake electors efforts, which is what he is going to get charged for. Moron.
As far as "opining as such" there's been witness testimony already that Trump knew he'd lost and there wasn't widespread fraud. As a result, there are definitely legal theories that can hold someone accountable for the events on January 6th because there are definite limits to free speech, especially when it comes to assaults on our democracy by a guy who wants to be a dictator. But I doubt that's what they go after him for. I bet they will just do the fake electors because that evidence is already completely obvious (including written emails from people saying they know they're just making up a fake slate of electors) such that it will be an open and shut case with an easy conviction.
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Just to elaborate further on the Jan 6th speech part, this is one of the key phrases "you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. . . . And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore."
As a lawyer, I can say that this combined with testimony that Trump was aware of what he was doing (and that people in the crowd had weapons) does carry solid legal weight. It outweighs an argument that he at one point said "peaceful"...legally speaking that doesn't absolve someone of the affects of their inflammatory rhetoric when the testimony shows you know you're pushing false claims using it.
But at any rate like I said above I would be surprised if the special counsel really focuses on that. You already have the fake electors stuff which Trump was completely aware of and endorsed and is an inarguable attempt to subvert an election. Like, it's not even debatable from a legal perspective. If they charge him for that the trial will be pretty quick and easy...so as a prosecutor you don't even need to get into the tangle of whether or not his speech on Jan 6th was inflammatory etc. You've already nailed him as is.