The Trump Conspiracy Indictment in DC Is Bad

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Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @LegalEagle
    @LegalEagle  10 месяцев назад +801

    ⚖ Note that the definition of "corruptly" is currently up on appeal in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and SCOTUS.
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    • @dr.floridamanphd
      @dr.floridamanphd 10 месяцев назад +81

      His actions were definitely done with corrupt intent.
      Trump 4 Prison 2024

    • @ViableGibbon
      @ViableGibbon 10 месяцев назад +15

      Could you please do A JFK 1991 FILM REVIEW ON IT'S LAW ACCRUCY PLEASE

    • @jeffredfern3744
      @jeffredfern3744 10 месяцев назад +49

      The word "corruptly" being used to denote corruption does not have deeply rooted history in the United States. - Samuel Alito

    • @nopenahman7380
      @nopenahman7380 10 месяцев назад +31

      While the explanations are appreciated - you do very good work sir - as often as not, as I watch your videos delving into the labyrinthine aspects of legal procedure, I am overcome by a sense that this hyper-litigious system is inherently flawed and is very-likely incapable of generating just outcomes with any degree of regularity.

    • @MagicManICT
      @MagicManICT 10 месяцев назад +18

      One has to appreciate legal terms needing to be properly defined by SCOTUS. That way we can all be on the same page when discussing such matters. I hope they aim to reach a better standard than "I know it when I see it."

  • @SpaceCowboy57
    @SpaceCowboy57 10 месяцев назад +3728

    14:16 "This law shouldn't count because it was made to prevent the KKK from oppressing voters." has to be the most on-brand conservative defense I've ever heard.

    • @RandomFandomDragon
      @RandomFandomDragon 10 месяцев назад

      They no longer get to be called conservatives; that is not the ideology they represent.

    • @goawayleavemealone2880
      @goawayleavemealone2880 10 месяцев назад

      How??? The KKK was founded by Democrats for Democrats and no, that hasn't changed. Hilary was even endorsed by a former grand master.

    • @TravisChalmers
      @TravisChalmers 10 месяцев назад +76

      Yes.

    • @eskiltester3913
      @eskiltester3913 10 месяцев назад

      Actually no.
      It was meant to stop extremists and militia not just The KKK.
      The KKK was just the catalyzer

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 10 месяцев назад +22

      A conservative defense? How so?

  • @clansome
    @clansome 10 месяцев назад +3298

    An a non American, I find it somewhat amusing/amazing that you -can- could be convicted of a felony and be barred from voting however you -can- could still run for office. (EDIT - can changed to could for clarity. Also I am not suggesting anybody HAS been convicted just the notion.) [PS I AM amazed by all the likes and comments in 16 years of commenting on YT I have never got more than a dozen comments and a similar amount of likes. This was NOT for likes or comments.]

    • @chaiti1985
      @chaiti1985 10 месяцев назад +155

      Trump was never convicted of a felony. Convicted means having been tried and declared guilty.

    • @cynicallysweet7441
      @cynicallysweet7441 10 месяцев назад +416

      As an American I certainly find it amazing, but significantly less amusing than u do

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 10 месяцев назад +139

      I'd go with disgusting.

    • @Temo990
      @Temo990 10 месяцев назад +98

      In exchange the US is strict about losing your right to cast a vote (not to be voted) at least as far as I know.
      If you are convicted of a felony, you can loose your right to vote for a very long time (depening on the state).
      In my country you only loose your right to vote in case of special crimes (manipulation of the election, treason, ...). Robbing a bank wouldn't result in losing your right to vote.

    • @darthrainbows
      @darthrainbows 10 месяцев назад

      It prevents those in power from jailing their political oppponents as a means of stopping them from running in elections.

  • @Waldohasaskit210
    @Waldohasaskit210 10 месяцев назад +2614

    I am absolutely devastated that Trump's actions have smeared the previously perfect record of such a group so integral to this country's soul. I am, of course, talking about the cast of Home Alone 2

    • @12jswilson
      @12jswilson 10 месяцев назад +86

      Every character in those first 2 movies were criminals with the possible exceptions of the old man, the bird lady, and Tim Curry's character

    • @godlygamer911
      @godlygamer911 10 месяцев назад +31

      @@12jswilson The child wasn't... he was literally a child... You're not good at law

    • @MidnightSonnet
      @MidnightSonnet 10 месяцев назад +64

      ​@@12jswilsonCurry's character did engage in some shady activity. First, he threatened a 10(?) year old and treated him like a criminal. He also broke into a guest's room without knocking or probable cause and walked into their bathroom while someone was in the shower. Yes, it wasn't a person, but Tim's character didn't know that. He also actively ran after Kevin with the goal of capturing him.

    • @Sugarman96
      @Sugarman96 10 месяцев назад

      Rob Schneider didn't need Trump's help, he's smeared his own record.

    • @bubba200874426
      @bubba200874426 10 месяцев назад +58

      @@godlygamer911 Being a child doesn't mean you didn't commit the crimes. It just means you might not be held responsible as an adult would be.

  • @greywhite2903
    @greywhite2903 10 месяцев назад +1502

    Its also hilariously ironic that he actually changed the punishment for misshandling classified documents from a misdemeanor to felony 😂

    • @xcala3038
      @xcala3038 10 месяцев назад +16

      He's charged with obstruction.

    • @monkeycat48
      @monkeycat48 10 месяцев назад

      You do realize that the whole thing is literally desperation to try and prevent him from running for office, right? I mean it’s ridiculously hilarious because they are so crooked in office. They know that the current president right now is just awful. Like when you hear that Trump meddled with 2020. Yeah I think it should be the other way around but oh well are enemies think we’re a week now because of Biden so whatever.

    • @TP_Gillz
      @TP_Gillz 10 месяцев назад

      @@xcala3038 and 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act

    • @shadowwhowalk
      @shadowwhowalk 10 месяцев назад

      The charges in the document indictment are specifically focused on Trump lying to the Feds about returning the documents.
      There is leeway where Trump can claim error or ignorance for prior mishandling, which worked for Clinton and Biden.

    • @haxie4516
      @haxie4516 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@shadowwhowalk
      Nope. Because Clinton and Biden returned the documents.
      Trump lied, kept them, and then tried cover it up.

  • @Drace90
    @Drace90 10 месяцев назад +3871

    Trump being the Home Alone character with the most legal troubles is even weirder when you consider that franchise features two parents who committed serial child neglect.

    • @joshuahudgins
      @joshuahudgins 10 месяцев назад +36

      Yeah but the parents won all the child's money.

    • @Drace90
      @Drace90 10 месяцев назад +154

      @@joshuahudgins Does that make up for what Kevin spent on Plaza Hotel room service?

    • @joshuahudgins
      @joshuahudgins 10 месяцев назад +14

      @@Drace90 lol

    • @roshnipatel2000
      @roshnipatel2000 10 месяцев назад +55

      And the criminals from the first home alone

    • @FurtiveSkeptical
      @FurtiveSkeptical 10 месяцев назад +20

      Aww, but the fictional story made it such heartwarming story.
      "Fictional stories" are very popular these days.
      Saves certain folks from all that pesky critical thought and thinking for themselves at all really.😉

  • @JPBrooksLive
    @JPBrooksLive 10 месяцев назад +1049

    This really was the perfect crime... Who else would lay out such a huge paper trail and and admit to everything on tape??

    • @YurinanAcquiline
      @YurinanAcquiline 10 месяцев назад +20

      Trump is not going to jail. So maybe it is.

    • @eskiltester3913
      @eskiltester3913 10 месяцев назад +68

      ​@@YurinanAcquilinehe is

    • @Dan55888
      @Dan55888 10 месяцев назад

      And then will sonehow get away with it because the law and government in america proves to be a failure again and again

    • @andrewbogard2411
      @andrewbogard2411 10 месяцев назад +77

      ​@@eskiltester3913us who want justice served hopes, though tbh he probably won't get prison time if he is punished at the most he will probably get fined and put on house arrest instead of prison time. Though I would love to think he actually will go to prison instead of house arrest.

    • @TyroRNG
      @TyroRNG 10 месяцев назад +96

      @@andrewbogard2411 So long as you have enough political and economic power the law is more like a suggestion or guideline.
      Practically ever other person committing but a fraction of the things trump did would have been in jail already.

  • @PhatPazzo
    @PhatPazzo 10 месяцев назад +1131

    “Your honor; earlier when my client admitted to murdering his entire family, he was just exercising his right to free speech.”

    • @tuckernaughton
      @tuckernaughton 10 месяцев назад +144

      "Your honor, my client believed his entire family was already dead. Murdering them was just him asking important questions about the security and integrity of their deaths."

    • @eattherich9215
      @eattherich9215 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@tuckernaughton: 😂😂😂

    • @DragonMoth34
      @DragonMoth34 10 месяцев назад +67

      @@tuckernaughton He called 911, and the dispatcher told him to "Make sure they are dead"

    • @georgecarberry9222
      @georgecarberry9222 10 месяцев назад +5

      Exactly!!!

    • @haxie4516
      @haxie4516 10 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@DragonMoth34
      I spat out my drink lmfao

  • @user-dm1mb8ql9s
    @user-dm1mb8ql9s 9 месяцев назад +178

    I swear, I'm losing track of all the cases against this man. Your videos covering this situation have been fantastic at helping combat misinformation.

    • @missliss2581able
      @missliss2581able 9 месяцев назад +6

      You’re gonna have to find the strength for one more, friend. Fulton County, Georgia just dropped their stack of indictments 😊

    • @imjustmeTBD
      @imjustmeTBD 9 месяцев назад

      Well, brace yourself for more confusion then because I read yesterday there's supposed to be TWO MORE indictments coming this week!

  • @Ericwvb2
    @Ericwvb2 10 месяцев назад +294

    Elie Mystal had the best comment recently ... "It's no longer a Presidential campaign, it's a prison break."

    • @ErebosGR
      @ErebosGR 10 месяцев назад

      Why do you think Trump praised Xi as "smart, brilliant, everything perfect" last month?
      It was this year's "China, if you're listening, help me stay out of prison."

    • @rickglorie
      @rickglorie 10 месяцев назад +8

      "Orange is the New Trump"

    • @notreal5513
      @notreal5513 10 месяцев назад

      Legal eagle fans trying there hardest to be funny

    • @rickglorie
      @rickglorie 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@notreal5513 "The Prison Apprentice" Trump would be funny if he hadn't become president.

    • @notreal5513
      @notreal5513 10 месяцев назад

      @@rickglorie you angry about trump because?

  • @merry_christmas
    @merry_christmas 10 месяцев назад +813

    I feel like many Americans don't understand "the right to free speech". Yes, you're allowed to say anything your heart desires. You will not be censored by the state. But you will still face the consequences of your actions.

    • @pootisengage6672
      @pootisengage6672 10 месяцев назад

      Sounds like communism to me

    • @nospamgaming6682
      @nospamgaming6682 10 месяцев назад +42

      they have rights to free speach but not freedom after speech

    • @nospamgaming6682
      @nospamgaming6682 10 месяцев назад +14

      @@pootisengage6672 wrong. thats just an authoritative regime

    • @SeedFactoryProject
      @SeedFactoryProject 10 месяцев назад +148

      The classic example was yelling fire in a crowded theater (from the days curtains were flammable, and they used gas lights for the stage). If you cause a stampede and people get hurt, you are liable. There are plenty of other examples like fraud and defamation. If your speech causes harm, you are not protected.

    • @Kahtisemo
      @Kahtisemo 10 месяцев назад +61

      Yeah and we've seen plenty of that lately too with active shooter and bomb threats. Even if the call was false, there's likely to be investigation and if it turns out the caller did it for a reaction even if they had no physical threat, they can still be arrested.

  • @Kriby88
    @Kriby88 10 месяцев назад +526

    "The first Home Alone 2 actor to be indicted three separate times" A more direct challenge to Macauley Culkin has never been made

    • @cosmosofinfinity
      @cosmosofinfinity 10 месяцев назад +18

      Isn't Macauley Culkin, like, the one child actor who didn't get totally screwed up later in life?

    • @jsalsman
      @jsalsman 10 месяцев назад

      lol

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos 10 месяцев назад +46

      ​@@cosmosofinfinityHe's pretty messed up but it's more from his abusive father than the fame itself. But if you want a child star that didn't get fucky wucky, Ron Howard.

    • @stephenallen4635
      @stephenallen4635 10 месяцев назад +45

      @@BJGvideoshes doing pretty well hes had no public conteoversies since people saw his disheveled hair and claimed he was a heroin addict

    • @haxie4516
      @haxie4516 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@stephenallen4635
      He looks really good these days, and is running some cool media projects

  • @charlesjudice2738
    @charlesjudice2738 10 месяцев назад +155

    People's speech is used as evidence all the time. That doesn't mean the speech itself is criminalized. Most people have heard about Miranda Warnings "anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law".

    • @absolstoryoffiction6615
      @absolstoryoffiction6615 10 месяцев назад

      Corruption smiles... You call this justice and yet I see none in this Church of America.

    • @anticarnick
      @anticarnick 10 месяцев назад +23

      Buys crowbar. Tells friends crowbar is to commit crime. Many people tell him on record that it's a crime. Moves on stated plan anyways. "YoU CanT pRoVE iTNenT".
      This is going to go well.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 10 месяцев назад +2

      Miranda warnings only apply to things you say after being Mirandized, which only happens if you're being detained.
      Doesn't mean other speech can't be used as evidence, but that's not a Miranda thing specifically.

    • @jewels3400
      @jewels3400 10 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@NoriMori1992fair point. I think it was just an example though, but I appreciate the clarification anyway

    • @edwardgiovannelli5191
      @edwardgiovannelli5191 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@NoriMori1992 In court, any inculpatory public statements made by the defendant or their representation are admissible. Free speech? Sure, say whatever you want... but he's not being charged for expressing ideas, he's charged with criminal conspiracy.

  • @davidwright7193
    @davidwright7193 10 месяцев назад +807

    Now you need to do a video on what happens when you intimidate jurors, witnesses, and Council by posting threatening social media posts less than 24 hours after being told not to do these things by a judge.

    • @mistiecantey1
      @mistiecantey1 10 месяцев назад +25

      Yes please

    • @pokehybridtrainer
      @pokehybridtrainer 10 месяцев назад +26

      So he's learned nothing.

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@pokehybridtrainer and forgotten nothing.

    • @horrorhotel1999
      @horrorhotel1999 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@davidwright7193He has been said to have "one of the greatest memories of all time"

    • @Tricia_K
      @Tricia_K 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@nicdegrave3313 That one left me speechless! I mean... nope - still nothing!😮😆😆

  • @this_is_patrick
    @this_is_patrick 10 месяцев назад +113

    12:51 Did they legit try to argue that a Congressional meeting to count and certify a presidential election doesn't count as an official proceeding?
    That's probably the most official of all official proceedings

    • @martam307
      @martam307 10 месяцев назад +26

      I think they consider it just bros meeting for a coffee and gossip.

    • @davidhand9721
      @davidhand9721 10 месяцев назад +30

      You can't set the bar low enough for Republicans.

    • @jimmysthoughts8571
      @jimmysthoughts8571 10 месяцев назад +6

      I imagine they thought there was some kind of particular definition that somehow could get around it. In law, technicalities are often king.

    • @momain5483
      @momain5483 10 месяцев назад

      They've been saying this for a long time. They also claimed he can't be charged with obstruction because the government eventually did count all the elector votes and concluded Biden won and the meeting ended thus no obstruction!!
      I would say they need to read a dictionary but at this point I doubt any of these people even learned how to read at all with how stupid these excuses are.

    • @exeggcutertimur6091
      @exeggcutertimur6091 10 месяцев назад +1

      I thought the same thing, this is legit about as official it *gets ffs*!

  • @KateFitz
    @KateFitz 9 месяцев назад +42

    Regarding the analogy of the bank robbery, you can take it a step further. *Even if it's true* that your account has (or should have) $5,000 in it, you're not entitled to rob the bank. Even if there was election fraud, the "self help" remedy of more election fraud and obstruction is not permissible.

    • @lenabanx6221
      @lenabanx6221 7 месяцев назад

      Omg LOVE that analogy! Seriously so true! And it kind of feels like a “trump” card as in - even if someone believes in the stolen election misinformation that the GOP has pushed it STILL doesn’t mean any of the things trump did to try and change the results was legal, or justified in any way.

  • @jarrakul
    @jarrakul 10 месяцев назад +301

    When I was a kid, people used to talk with pride about the peaceful transfer of power. About how no matter their differences, US presidents followed George Washington's example and put down the reigns of government when their terms were up, handing them off to their duly-elected successors. How far we've fallen.

    • @xaropevic7918
      @xaropevic7918 10 месяцев назад +20

      You should check the 2008 discourse made by McCaim when he lost the election, is quite beautiful, I don't expect low of the one made by republican's candidate in 2012, but I didn't read to be sure

    • @ShireNomad
      @ShireNomad 10 месяцев назад +51

      My high school US government textbook had, as its introduction, a short description of an election campaign between two (made-up) candidates. It concluded the summary with something to the effect of "at about two hours after the polls closed, [Candidate B] called [Candidate A] to formally congratulate him on the victory." And then noted that this was something unusual in the world that we take for granted in America: despite much talk by B during the campaign that the election of A would be a disaster, B never considered gathering his supporters to instate him anyway, establishing his own government elsewhere, or any number of other events that have happened in less stable democracies. B accepted that he had lost fairly and submitted to the will of the voters.
      We are no longer in that America. However, we can still be in the America that, if a candidate DOES try one of those things, he will neither succeed nor be given the opportunity to try again.

    • @tokumei1282
      @tokumei1282 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah that was almost 300 years ago

    • @ChaoticNeutralMatt
      @ChaoticNeutralMatt 10 месяцев назад +4

      I'll add that Nixon's transfer was unquestioned but the previous president had evidence of foul play. Just an interesting tidbit.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 10 месяцев назад +2

      *reins

  • @Mataclysm
    @Mataclysm 10 месяцев назад +245

    Love how Will Cain is like "Aw shit politicians can't lie anymore what is the world coming to" unironically

    • @FurtiveSkeptical
      @FurtiveSkeptical 10 месяцев назад

      It's their only method, of course they're grumbling of the curtailing of traditional dishonest footholds they've diligently employed.
      They have no other platform,
      no plans to help the American people, no moral compass, no regard for the planet out children inherit, no intention of stopping Big Money from owning everything and turning America into a list of debt slaves and shareholders,
      no qualms about removing women's reproductive health rights, no concept of differing ethnicities, religions and sexual identity as "People", no concept of Truth and Integrity, no chance of changing their POV, no ideas,
      no direction, no answers, no Hope.
      These people are truly Lost.

    • @PhillKaggitz
      @PhillKaggitz 10 месяцев назад +1

      No. Don’t get confused. Trump can’t say anything anymore. Just that, every other politician will keep doing what they are doing.

    • @absolstoryoffiction6615
      @absolstoryoffiction6615 10 месяцев назад

      @@PhillKaggitz
      Corruption smiles. Trump is just one...

    • @Mataclysm
      @Mataclysm 10 месяцев назад

      @@PhillKaggitz I can't see the comment you're replying to so I'm missing context.
      Of course politicians will continue to lie like they breathe. That won't change until we fully get rid of the corruption and the cult of personality and give government positions the public servant role they were meant to have.

  • @juschu85
    @juschu85 10 месяцев назад +329

    I mean, Trump's mental state has to be good enough to knew he lied. He himself told us he took a test. He can even tell apart a camera, woman, person, and a TV.

    • @kingacrisius
      @kingacrisius 10 месяцев назад +26

      I'm not convinced he can tell a woman apart from a camera/TV. I'm pretty confident he separates them from "person" in his mind pretty well though.

    • @erisgh0sted961
      @erisgh0sted961 10 месяцев назад +14

      There's 85 republican witnesses. He said the day he lost that "I can't believe I lost to this guy, can you?" to Stephanie Grishom(spelling). He's known the whole time. I don't even care about any of this tbh. I want him held accountable for Ashli Babbitts death.

    • @robinkelly1770
      @robinkelly1770 10 месяцев назад +3

      And a man. Dude you just failed the test😅

    • @notoriousm.i.g.9467
      @notoriousm.i.g.9467 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@erisgh0sted961 Operative word mate, he doesn't "believe" it as it was inherently unbelieveable. That's not the admission you think it is

    • @Murph_gaming
      @Murph_gaming 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@erisgh0sted961 one big grift is all it's been and he's still doing it by taking people's money to pay his legal bills.

  • @ronsaunchegrow7418
    @ronsaunchegrow7418 9 месяцев назад +43

    I like the examples of attempting to hire a hitman to off your spouse. You don't need the act of your spouse being offed to actually have happen to be guilty of soliciting the act to happen. Or the example of planning, with others to rob a bank. Even if you aren't robbing the bank in person or the get-away driver, the act of "being in on the plot" is criminally punishable.

  • @forgottenfamily
    @forgottenfamily 9 месяцев назад +16

    "The first Home Alone 2 actor to be indicted 3 separate times"
    Wait.... was someone else in Home Alone 2 indicted twice?

  • @MrMuel1205
    @MrMuel1205 10 месяцев назад +1141

    As an Australian, I find it amazing that primaries are covered by federal electoral law. America is such an entrenched two-party system that internal party processes are covered by electoral law.

    • @ericmckinney4607
      @ericmckinney4607 10 месяцев назад +77

      As long as guns and abortion are polarizing issues America will continue to be a two-party system.

    • @itsd0nk
      @itsd0nk 10 месяцев назад +374

      @@ericmckinney4607As long as we have a basic first past the post voting system, we will have a two party system. We need ranked choice voting, which would swing the door wide open for a multi-party system.

    • @TravisChalmers
      @TravisChalmers 10 месяцев назад +40

      @itsd0nk Canada has three main parties and a lot of others that get into our House, and we have minority governments, with a FPTP system. BUT! we don't elect our prime minister. Just our House representatives

    • @MrMuel1205
      @MrMuel1205 10 месяцев назад +40

      To be clear, I'm a supporter of one of Australia's two major parties. Australia is also a two party system - only Liberals or Labor will ever form government. But the idea of the system being so entrenched that internal party selection matters are a matter of federal electoral law is wild.
      EDIT: Australia has preferential voting and minority governments are absolutely a feature of our system. Liberals need at least The Nationals to hold government. Labor usually wins in its own right, but might need Greens or Independents. Canada isn't really a multiparty or 3 party system. Sure the NDP have beaten the Liberals, but they will never form government, similar to The Greens in Australia. It's a bit closer than Australia (The Greens have never come close to out-polling Labor, but on the other hand The Nationals have provided Prime Ministers).

    • @North_West1
      @North_West1 10 месяцев назад +46

      If US had compulsory voting like Australia…things might be easier. We need voting sausages too.

  • @mrjmorovis
    @mrjmorovis 10 месяцев назад +100

    Republicans about the Klan law "That cant be used now!" Wasn't there something about some guys writings from the 1600s to and the right to abortion?
    'That's different."

    • @teresas8173
      @teresas8173 10 месяцев назад

      I was thinking the same thing. Conservative SCOTUS using old law to pass new laws. They love using old it when it benefits them, otherwise they are shouting “ Thats not right! ”.

  • @rosco3
    @rosco3 10 месяцев назад +27

    Saying this is criminalizing free speech is like saying a confession in a murder case is also criminalizing free speech.
    His speech is just further evidence of the crime, not the crime itself

  • @MyPalScout
    @MyPalScout 10 месяцев назад +35

    "It's not what you know, Clyde, its what you can prove in court." - Law Abiding Citizen.

    • @jordansweet8054
      @jordansweet8054 9 месяцев назад

      That was a really good movie. Underrated.

  • @davidhand9721
    @davidhand9721 10 месяцев назад +420

    The mental state issue is so difficult because Trump doesn't _believe_ one way or the other. The truth is entirely irrelevant to him. He wants so desperately to be glorified, admired, respected, and empowered that it just doesn't matter what actually happened, what the rules are, or what he has to do or say to achieve those goals. He is indifferent to reality.

    • @catbranchman01
      @catbranchman01 10 месяцев назад

      The mental state issue (if we are talking about whether he really believes the election was stolen) is a non issue. Like the video says, the only important thing is to show that he intended to overturn the election through illegal means, and it looks like they’ve got evidence proving that stacked up all the way to the moon

    • @bkm2797
      @bkm2797 10 месяцев назад +7

      davidhand9721,
      Well said and so true!

    • @soltantio
      @soltantio 10 месяцев назад +32

      Well he believes he's entitled to a certain outcome regardless of the law or the facts

    • @soltantio
      @soltantio 10 месяцев назад +16

      Also even if you legitimately believed he lost, which is unlikely, that does not give him the right to use violent means to enforce a certain result

    • @Zalzany
      @Zalzany 10 месяцев назад +6

      Well at min he would be criminally insane and still rot away this isn't the local crazy homeless person they just cut loose for shoplifting after a weekend in jail sigh...

  • @edwardblair4096
    @edwardblair4096 10 месяцев назад +761

    Remember how over the last two years there have been a lot of complaints about how the Justice Department has spent too much time going after the low level foot soldiers from Jan 6 while ignoring the guys at the top who set it up and were directing it? Now we see the government's long game strategy. Lots of the nuance defence arguments that T-p might want to use have already been used and rejected multiple times. I presume at least some of them went through an appeal process so that by now there is a fair amount of case law written by multiple judges from multiple jurisdictions that the current Judge can refer to when making rulings.

    • @ryshow9118
      @ryshow9118 10 месяцев назад +118

      I'm one of the real critics of Garland. I've hated the slow walk but I think you're correct about case law. Mr. Smith has built what is probably the most solid case in the history of this country.

    • @matthewgarcia9164
      @matthewgarcia9164 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@ryshow9118what ? This case hade no merit, trump just had an opinion so he should be indicted?

    • @maddermax22
      @maddermax22 10 месяцев назад +207

      @@matthewgarcia9164 Did you come to comment on a video that you never watched? Seriously, it’s explained in detail how Trumps opinion is completely irrelevant to indicting his criminal actions.

    • @Iudicatio
      @Iudicatio 10 месяцев назад

      Yes, they are using the same tactics they used to go after the mob. Because at the end of the day, Trump is a mob boss.

    • @Sugarman96
      @Sugarman96 10 месяцев назад +36

      Sadly it looks like this begins and ends with Trump and his circle, even though other Republicans in congress played a part in J6 as well. This is objectively a win, but I wish they'd go further.

  • @SilverDragonJay
    @SilverDragonJay 10 месяцев назад +85

    I swear, I'm losing track of all the cases against this man

    • @edwardgiovannelli5191
      @edwardgiovannelli5191 9 месяцев назад +19

      imagine committing *that* much crime that you can't keep track anymore! And these clowns want him back in the White House!!!

    • @danevertt3210
      @danevertt3210 9 месяцев назад +8

      The mental illness from the trump supporting section of the nation is really super scary

    • @mikegarza8648
      @mikegarza8648 9 месяцев назад +1

      And that's only the ones they could manage without looking too political. They aren't even prosecuting for everything. Just the most rock solid things.

    • @idiotgaming6376
      @idiotgaming6376 9 месяцев назад +1

      Honestly I looked at the replies to this comment because I'm looking for the numbskull saying BeCaUsE hE dIdNt Do It

    • @ko7577
      @ko7577 9 месяцев назад

      88 felony charges that could result in a total of 641 years in prison. And he's STILL admitting crimes on camera almost daily, with motive provided. He clearly is not sane.

  • @scootergirl3662
    @scootergirl3662 10 месяцев назад +225

    The funny thing is that the people I met that are still defending Trump and saying he is being unfairly maligned and punished are the same type of people that believe that people who die from police brutality "should have not committed a crime, so it is the victim's fault"

    • @samuelbankston2108
      @samuelbankston2108 10 месяцев назад

      Also saying to do the same to Hillary, Clinton's and Obama. With nothing to prove the did anything. Trumps own people cleared Hillary after spending years screaming stuff about her. Made what he did more illegal. The double stands are insane

    • @kevincannon2269
      @kevincannon2269 10 месяцев назад +11

      ...except for ashli babbit, of course 🙄

    • @EmeraldMara85
      @EmeraldMara85 9 месяцев назад +21

      It's called bias. Also mentioning how Jesus abhors violence gets them triggered too. (hypocrisy)

    • @zyeborm
      @zyeborm 9 месяцев назад +3

      Even the innocent ones? Especially the innocent ones!

    • @JoeNoshow27
      @JoeNoshow27 9 месяцев назад +10

      "But the police shot him in the back as he was running away in fear!"
      "Well he should've let them shoot him in the face first."

  • @AchaimianS17
    @AchaimianS17 10 месяцев назад +116

    Yet again, people continue to conflate ‘freedom of speech’ with ‘freedom from consequence of that speech’. Great video

    • @maxxroach8033
      @maxxroach8033 10 месяцев назад +1

      Too bad that’s not a crime.

    • @alexd9550
      @alexd9550 10 месяцев назад

      @@maxxroach8033 Conservatives might have something if he was being charged for something he said, which he isn't. You can't try to commit fraud to overturn an election.

    • @kingacrisius
      @kingacrisius 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@maxxroach8033 Wdym? Obviously freedom of speech isn't a crime? It's just not a defense against criminal indictment in most cases. If you say something like "I'm going to kill X person" and then X person is murdered, that's pretty bad for you. You can't hide behind "oh but free speech". It's still evidence against you.

    • @meej33
      @meej33 10 месяцев назад +18

      It's not that. It's simply that one of the narrow exceptions to freedom of speech is the commission of crimes. If I plan a bank robbery, I cannot claim that my planning of a crime is protected under freedom of speech. If I enter the bank and yell "give me the money or I kill you", again that is not protected under freedom of speech. If I talk a bank employee into defrauding the bank, that is not protected under freedom of speech. Etcetera.

    • @a.w_.
      @a.w_. 10 месяцев назад

      The American constitutional concept of freedom of speech was a mistake

  • @eaglescout1984
    @eaglescout1984 10 месяцев назад +746

    "You can't use that law! It was meant to prevent the KKK from obstructing the right to vote for black Americans. Not for a white guy who seemingly has no problem with being supported by the KKK to obstruct the right to vote of black Americans. Completely different circumstances!"

    • @janerevaleebond8311
      @janerevaleebond8311 10 месяцев назад

      Since I voted for Joe Biden, he attempted to obstruct my vote. If he had succeeded, he would have still been president, which I was against

    • @apacheattackhelicopter8410
      @apacheattackhelicopter8410 10 месяцев назад +6

      Trump wasn’t obstructing black people from voting

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer 10 месяцев назад +91

      @@apacheattackhelicopter8410 he was trying to overturn the results of them voting, so… kinda.
      The GOP is the current standard bearer for suppressing the Black vote. It’s moved around a bit over the years.

    • @mathewkelly9968
      @mathewkelly9968 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@apacheattackhelicopter8410 as a citizen of a country where voting is compulsory the laws/gerrymandering around voting is obviously rigged for the minority party (IE the replikkkans)

    • @Bewefau
      @Bewefau 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@handsalmon6929 you can't point out facts to those people there brain will hurt. shhhhhh

  • @krackerkruncher
    @krackerkruncher 10 месяцев назад +139

    Your videos covering this situation have been fantastic at helping combat misinformation

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 10 месяцев назад +21

      If only that were true. Keep in mind that absolutely *NO* Chump supporter would ever watch a video like this. It might not even pop up in their feed. And even if it did, Devon's experience, professional work, career, understanding of the laws, and video team would all mean NOTHING. All a Chumper has to do is click "thumbs down", "not interested", and "report". No listening nor attention need be paid. 💪😎✌️ That's the Chumporino way, baby! 😂

    • @rageonyx
      @rageonyx 10 месяцев назад

      lol what are you smoking? This video IS misinformation! With a healthy dose of propaganda added for effect.

    • @haxie4516
      @haxie4516 10 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@rageonyx
      I'm sorry that objective fact seems like misinformation to you, it's possible you're too far into the cult to know any better. My thoughts are with your loved ones at this time, it must be so hard for them to have lost someone to a cult.

    • @killerb255
      @killerb255 9 месяцев назад +8

      Unfortunately belief will always be stronger than cold unbiased fact.
      (Regardless of whether or not belief and fact agree)

  • @kropotkinnie
    @kropotkinnie 10 месяцев назад +18

    just wanted to drop in and say my dad, who is a government tax attourney in CA and who is pretty far left (somewhere between demsoc and socialist, myself being an anarchosyndicalist commie) and has spent a lot of his career going up against huge corps who commit tax fraud and teaming up with environmental lawyers to get companies to stop engaging in environmental crimes, absolutely LOVES your content. he really likes seeing other lawyers who are not right wingers and who actually stand up for good values and really care about what they do, because he very much does. i look up to him a LOT for what he's done and his principles regarding corrupt companies and the two of us love watching your content together and discussing the state of law as a profession.
    (i'm just a goober going into zoology with hopes to advocate for better animal ethics, but i have Infinite respect for the left leaning lawyers who have long championed environmental and animal and human rights causes)

    • @TomSmith-jp1es
      @TomSmith-jp1es 9 месяцев назад

      Thanks for writing this, it's really interesting. It's so cool to see you write about your dad in such glowing words. My dad was a soc dem and I'm more on the anarchosyndicalist side of things too, great to see like minds on here too 😊

    • @DystopianOverture
      @DystopianOverture 9 месяцев назад

      Lawful Good dad and Chaotic Good kid finding a common ground is pretty wholesome.

  • @FSMface
    @FSMface 10 месяцев назад +455

    I come from a conservative family. My lawyer relative and I just watched this together, and she just scratched her chin and said, "Well, they've got him".

    • @mboiko
      @mboiko 10 месяцев назад

      Isn't that what they've been saying almost since Trump took office...please...I'm no Republican (voted for Obama twice and was a Tulsi Gabbard supporter) but let's be honest for a second. This is all about a desperate attempt to stop Trump AT ALL COSTS. Meanwhile, he's gaining supporters with each of these attempts.

    • @billdehappy1
      @billdehappy1 10 месяцев назад +11

      Sure you done sure

    • @laras678
      @laras678 10 месяцев назад +40

      @@billdehappy1 Huh?

    • @skepticalextraterrestrial2971
      @skepticalextraterrestrial2971 10 месяцев назад +8

      Not a very good lawyer I guess.

    • @raevj
      @raevj 10 месяцев назад +2

      No they didn’t unless it is a corrupt trial.

  • @aviatorsound914
    @aviatorsound914 10 месяцев назад +398

    This subject is only polarizing, because the politician is being indicted and apparently some people think the politician requires a higher standard of proof which is incorrect.

    • @kray3883
      @kray3883 10 месяцев назад +142

      He's already getting a higher standard of proof anyway. You try taking home a bunch of classified documents and see if they start by sending you a polite request to return them.

    • @RoyArrowood
      @RoyArrowood 10 месяцев назад

      @@kray3883 If any military did that they would go straight to jail. Hillary got away with it too. Powerful people really do have different rules.

    • @inefffable
      @inefffable 10 месяцев назад +42

      They don't need ANY standard. People think he didn't do anything and he's being targeted unfairly. Because that's the lie they've been told for years.
      It makes me sad these criminals have been messing with so many minds of fellow citizens. I really hope they're able to break out their bubble, we need people in the real world so we can tackle real world problems.

    • @Suralin0
      @Suralin0 10 месяцев назад +41

      @@thenutsonyourchin Authoritarian-minded people don't mind there being any number of tiers -- they just want to make sure the people they hate are always on the bottom tier, and that the people they like can do whatever they want.

    • @laurendoe168
      @laurendoe168 10 месяцев назад +26

      Personally, I think politicians should be held to a higher standard of ethics.

  • @DirtSweatGears
    @DirtSweatGears 10 месяцев назад +37

    The Eagle Team promos during these videos make me laugh so much because I keep imagining Trump calling up Devin's office looking for a lawyer

    • @brianhirt5027
      @brianhirt5027 10 месяцев назад +1

      Maybe not Darth Gilligan himself. But I'll bet with the rate the few remaining legal firms willing to engage the PR nightmare to represent these jokers are being optioned by the other defendants he might actually get a call from a conspirator.

  • @dustypartition
    @dustypartition 10 месяцев назад +124

    "I did everything right, and they indicted me!" will hopefully be forever the funniest lie a US president ever tells.

    • @sylar5373
      @sylar5373 9 месяцев назад +1

      Would have thought “10% for the big guy” will be the slogan by which Biden is remembered by…

    • @edwardgiovannelli5191
      @edwardgiovannelli5191 9 месяцев назад +11

      @@sylar5373 Keep trying kiddo.
      repeating a lie over and over only makes it seem true to the really weak minded.

    • @Delightfully_Bitchy
      @Delightfully_Bitchy 9 месяцев назад +1

      ^What is even going on with these two?

    • @danevertt3210
      @danevertt3210 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@sylar5373you’d think after all the investigations about this infamous laptop, the GOP would find something and do something about it. The fact that recent testimony shut all of the GOPs accusations down is super super hilarious

    • @sylar5373
      @sylar5373 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@danevertt3210 rather hard when the person who is of interest with the laptop is also the presidents son…

  • @AdamasOldblade
    @AdamasOldblade 10 месяцев назад +207

    All he had to do was not give into his ego and most of this would never have happened.
    But decency has never ever been his strong point. Forever corrupted.

    • @dr.floridamanphd
      @dr.floridamanphd 10 месяцев назад +1

      Trump is a megalomaniac. Giving in and admitting defeat would kill him.

    • @AnimeWolf5193
      @AnimeWolf5193 10 месяцев назад +38

      I suspect there isn't anything left of Trump except his ego.

    • @Jehty21
      @Jehty21 10 месяцев назад +1

      Is it ego if you really believe that the election is fraudulent? I don't think so.
      (Of course that requires Trump to actually think that. I have no idea about his state of mind 🤷🏼‍♀️)

    • @stephenrioux6821
      @stephenrioux6821 10 месяцев назад +13

      @@AnimeWolf5193 Has he ever had anything else?

    • @shroomyk
      @shroomyk 10 месяцев назад +37

      @@Jehty21 If a person legitimately believed they lost an election due to fraud rather than their own failure, despite no evidence of fraud, then yes it is still ego. A narcissist's ego will not let them believe they have done wrong or that their failures are their fault. That is why they are dangerous.

  • @terrencekane8203
    @terrencekane8203 10 месяцев назад +623

    If Trump didn't want to be indicted he should have not committed 78 felonies.

    • @skepticalextraterrestrial2971
      @skepticalextraterrestrial2971 10 месяцев назад

      You mean he shouldn't have pissed off the shadow government.

    • @mistiecantey1
      @mistiecantey1 10 месяцев назад +99

      78 so far

    • @charlesharper2357
      @charlesharper2357 10 месяцев назад +71

      I prefer ex Presidents who don't get indicted for criminal activities...

    • @Kiyoone
      @Kiyoone 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@charlesharper2357 So... You prefer NOBODY

    • @DeathsquadDemongods
      @DeathsquadDemongods 10 месяцев назад +1

      I heard "He did nothing wrong and they indicted me". That's good enough for me!!

  • @TheQuiescentSquall
    @TheQuiescentSquall 10 месяцев назад +18

    I thought this video was titled “Another insane trumsurrection DLC” and it made perfect sense. These dev’s keep milking this franchise with new expansions

    • @haxie4516
      @haxie4516 10 месяцев назад +1

      Isn't this the one where they add online play?

    • @AMortalDefiant
      @AMortalDefiant 9 месяцев назад

      "The Co-conspirator co-op" DLC.@@haxie4516

    • @haxie4516
      @haxie4516 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@AMortalDefiant
      Oh that has a realllly nice ring to it

  • @bgb9822
    @bgb9822 9 месяцев назад +5

    The Macaulay Culkin joke made me laugh way too hard! Love your channel dude. Keep up all the cool stuff.

  • @getjaynesmith4770
    @getjaynesmith4770 10 месяцев назад +194

    I literally just came to this channel looking for a video about the latest indictment. Roughly, 20 seconds after I clicked away, I got the notification about this video. I appreciate how clear you make all of this.

  • @RealStuntPanda
    @RealStuntPanda 10 месяцев назад +95

    ReTrumplicans, "The DOJ is depriving Trump of his freedom of speech to tell a bank teller to hand over all the money!"

    • @noname7271
      @noname7271 10 месяцев назад +30

      He was just joking! He loaded the gun and shot a few rounds in the air to make it look like he was serious but it was just pretend!
      Breaking the law is not illegal!

    • @ssshar2176
      @ssshar2176 10 месяцев назад +2

      Remember when they said their favorite quality about trump was that he meant what he said? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @brandonclay1017
    @brandonclay1017 10 месяцев назад +139

    Obviously covering these charges is extremely important for this channel for a lot of reasons, but meanwhile, Billy Mitchell's legal woes are SO FUNNY. Karl Jobst is doing a great job of covering everything, but I'd love to see LegalEagle specifically break down how god awful Mitchell's lawyers have been at lawyering. Maybe even a collab!

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos 10 месяцев назад +11

      That would be great. Oh god Mitchell is a laughingstock in a much better way than this

    • @DarthLunchbox
      @DarthLunchbox 10 месяцев назад +17

      i see we have some Absolute Legends here as well.

    • @thedealmama3070
      @thedealmama3070 10 месяцев назад +8

      the crossover we need!!!

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 9 месяцев назад +2

      I never thought of that! That'd be dope!

    • @Mujigsuppa
      @Mujigsuppa 9 месяцев назад +1

      I'm all for this!

  • @jdelacruz1058
    @jdelacruz1058 10 месяцев назад +24

    And people still want to reelect him.🤦‍♀️

    • @raylast3873
      @raylast3873 9 месяцев назад

      Yes. This is a political conflict and it will not be resolved through legal means. Ironically, Trump‘s supporters understand this better than his opponents.

  • @tims4502
    @tims4502 10 месяцев назад +382

    Who would have thought trying to commit fraud and encourage others to violence would have a consequence?
    Edit: stupid me, I had forgotten about taking stuff (classified docs) without permission and refusing to give them back. “Was that wrong? Some dictators in other countries do it all the time.”

    • @Dan55888
      @Dan55888 10 месяцев назад +17

      It should but somehow I bet Trump wont see a single consequence... the law and governement has already proven again and again it disnt apply to him somehow...

    • @wlm1697
      @wlm1697 10 месяцев назад +6

      None of that even happened so...🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @pancaked7777777
      @pancaked7777777 10 месяцев назад +45

      ​@@wlm1697did you read the indictment? Or are you just one of those that wouldn't believe it anyway?

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz 10 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@Dan55888the law has gotten him multiple times in the past but it was never enough punishment to not still be worth it. It's like a calculated cost

    • @Joe90h
      @Joe90h 10 месяцев назад

      @@wlm1697 January 6th 2021 didn't happen? People weren't directly lead to believe that the democratic process was being perverted solely because a Cheeto dust man alienated a new demographic of previously jaded or unmotivated voters to speak out against him and that hurt his fragile ego?

  • @joshquivey6990
    @joshquivey6990 10 месяцев назад +238

    I'd like to see you cover Trump's “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” and if that constitutes witness intimidation and/or a violation of the conditions of his release.
    It seems like anyone else would be hauled back in front of the judge and/or held until their trial.

    • @doctorno3912
      @doctorno3912 10 месяцев назад +11

      This please

    • @snafufubar
      @snafufubar 10 месяцев назад +19

      I believe this was originally said by Al Capone and who would ever believe he could be involved in witness intimidation.

    • @yesman3208
      @yesman3208 10 месяцев назад

      Good God. Such a stretch to try and say any amount of political rivalry or rhetoric is all “criminal” now. Questioning election integrity was perfectly fine 2016-2019. But suddenly it’s insurrectionist and treasonous in 2020. And we all know the defining characteristic of a free transparent democracy is not allowing anyone to question or review election results to ensure they’re fair…
      Hoarding classified documents (which every president does) isn’t an offense when Hillary or Biden does it, but it is when Trump does it…let’s not forget that Trump actually had security and secret service where his documents were stored. Biden did not. Hillary had shit on an unsecured phone and knowingly destroyed evidence when caught.
      You’re so easy to manipulate

    • @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong
      @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong 10 месяцев назад +28

      ​@@snafufubarAl Capone, famed furniture store owner and soup kitchen volunteer who definitely wasn't responsible for any heinous crimes.

    • @zen1647
      @zen1647 10 месяцев назад +4

      There might be a specificity issue - the threat doesn't specify elements of the threat - who is he talking about, what retaliation would take place, when, etc.
      I'm just trying to think like a lawyer - I could be wrong.

  • @NJ-bw1mg
    @NJ-bw1mg 9 месяцев назад +7

    Devin makes me like lawyers. The more I learn the more impressed I am. What a class act!

  • @TheWhocaresusername
    @TheWhocaresusername 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for breaking all of these down. I'm glued to your channel

  • @JPBrooksLive
    @JPBrooksLive 10 месяцев назад +27

    I wonder if "IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU" is actionable lol.

    • @JonMartinYXD
      @JonMartinYXD 10 месяцев назад

      Jack Smith is already seeking a protection order because of that. He wants the courts to prevent Trump from going after witnesses, etc.

    • @jordanrodrigues1279
      @jordanrodrigues1279 10 месяцев назад +9

      If a judge rules that they have reasonable concerns that Trump is dangerous or violated terms of release he goes to jail until the judge is satisfied that he will behave.
      So, yes, and it's a very low standard of proof. If you're free on personal recog, don't jump online to trash-talk witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, or judge.
      Honestly, any normal defendant would have been hauled back in for that.

    • @JPBrooksLive
      @JPBrooksLive 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@jordanrodrigues1279 apparently DOJ filed for a protective order within hours of the post. It may be in order to call the judge's attention to it though.

    • @Alverant
      @Alverant 10 месяцев назад +1

      Given his history of engaging in petty vengeance, yes.

    • @joshuahudgins
      @joshuahudgins 10 месяцев назад

      No Its a statement that has self-defense built in.

  • @tatata1543
    @tatata1543 10 месяцев назад +336

    The word “corrupt” seems to me to be entirely appropriate when describing what is going on in the US these days. Even SCOTUS is rapidly losing any credibility as to their integrity. It’s all rather depressing.

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +25

      the people who wanted to "burn it down" or whatever parlance, didnt set fire to anything they just let some of the rot grow. --concerned Canadian noises--

    • @wackedout1443
      @wackedout1443 10 месяцев назад +3

      What did the SCOTUS do?

    • @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481
      @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481 10 месяцев назад +18

      I think it’s actually going fine. Despite trumps money and friends , he still has to show up in court. Judges and prosecutors still have power over him. Other republicans have realized that they are powerless to stop this legal process from happening.

    • @pierrebegley2746
      @pierrebegley2746 10 месяцев назад

      Bold of you to assume the Supreme Court EVER had any credibility to begin with.
      They've always been corrupt.

    • @Dan55888
      @Dan55888 10 месяцев назад

      The SCOTUS lost any sort of credibility when it allowed a drunk rapist on the bench

  • @tylerd5515
    @tylerd5515 10 месяцев назад +12

    It was so great seeing you in PhilosophyTube’s latest video!! Love it when my favorites collab 💕

    • @edwardgiovannelli5191
      @edwardgiovannelli5191 9 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, I *really* didn't see that one coming! Good stuff though

  • @richardthomas1531
    @richardthomas1531 10 месяцев назад +5

    What a tangled web he weaved,When first he started to deceive. 4 indictments ,4 different crimes. He truly is a Great POS.

  • @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481
    @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481 10 месяцев назад +53

    Innocent man : Hurry Up! I want a speedy trial!
    Guilty Man : Is it ok if I take a 14 year vacation at Mar-A-Lago before we start?

    • @chaiti1985
      @chaiti1985 10 месяцев назад +1

      I think his point was that the DOJ had 3 years to investigate this, and want to have a trial in nearly 2 months. Which gives the defense less than that amount of time to review discovery and prepare a defense. Also, considering their client is the clear frobt runner for the other major political party of the US so close to an election cycle - their client is probably a bit busy.

    • @Alverant
      @Alverant 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@chaiti1985 He chose to run knowing there were investigations and is not trying to use his decision to run as a means of escaping justice.

    • @chaiti1985
      @chaiti1985 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Alverant in not understanding what you're getting at. I'm saying the defense is wanting more time to build a defense because they have other cases with him, and he is tge front runner of political party in an upcomming election year. And ultimately, im not a fan of things like this being able to be used as an excuse to hinder poltical parties regardless of the side. Bad optics for a few of these DAs and the FBI again - just being practical.

    • @autorobo1000
      @autorobo1000 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@chaiti1985 Trump shouldn't have run for office again if he is so busy trying to deal with the cases brought against him.
      Unless.... He's trying to run for President so that he can't be tried for any of his crimes, and can further delay justice. Which is absolutely something anyone with sense could see him attempting.

    • @ericthecyclist
      @ericthecyclist 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@chaiti1985 that view point might hold more favour if so much evidence of his guilt wasn't already public. He should really be stuck in a little cell until his trial. However, I suppose that if the GOP really cared, they could make a special request to delay the election a year, giving Biden extra time in office. Somehow, I can't imagine them going for that though.

  • @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481
    @joebidenisyourpresidentget2481 10 месяцев назад +125

    Judge : You must follow these conditions in order to avoid more legal consequences.
    Trump : Yo did somebody say something?

    • @North_West1
      @North_West1 10 месяцев назад +19

      Plus, the magistrate was busy and made DJT wait for 20 minutes. Just like ever other defendant.
      For a long time, People wait on DJT not the other way around.
      Magistrate also referred to him as Mr Trump and not President. “Mr.” Is appropriate, he is not in court as an official.

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 10 месяцев назад +26

      @@North_West1 He's not an official at all. Calling former presidents "President" is a courtesy, and like all courtesies, it can be withdrawn when the recipient no longer deserves it.

    • @armorclasshero2103
      @armorclasshero2103 10 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@jdotozactually the rules of decorum state that no former president should ever be called president

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@armorclasshero2103 Which rules of decorum?

    • @armorclasshero2103
      @armorclasshero2103 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@jdotoz the official ones used in court

  • @HiddenDarkHM
    @HiddenDarkHM 10 месяцев назад +8

    I think the DOJ has watched Devon's videos and were like "Okay good points, let's avoid the stuff that's easy for them to wiggle out of."

  • @LaylaSpellwind
    @LaylaSpellwind 10 месяцев назад

    That segue to advertise your team was SMOOOOOTHE.
    Great work. =D

  • @TayChrizzle-lb1lt
    @TayChrizzle-lb1lt 10 месяцев назад +754

    The DOJ is like a gigantic extremely slow steamroller rolling over Donald from the legs up. They don’t miss a single inch. Huge thanks to Jack Smith and Co protecting our country from enemies both foreign and domestic.

    • @TravisChalmers
      @TravisChalmers 10 месяцев назад +44

      Great Austin Powers reference and you are 100% right.

    • @zynathera8140
      @zynathera8140 10 месяцев назад +16

      @@TravisChalmersI was just about to say exactly the same thing. It’s a great analogy.

    • @HeadCannonPrime
      @HeadCannonPrime 10 месяцев назад +118

      I'll hold my celebration until the steamroller gets to the head and it pops it like giant orange pumpkin.

    • @wheeliebeast7679
      @wheeliebeast7679 10 месяцев назад +32

      "They don’t miss a single inch"
      Which means they even got his microp…...er, micro-mushroom

    • @Dan55888
      @Dan55888 10 месяцев назад +32

      ​@@HeadCannonPrimeyeah only then I will cheer. Until then the law system has failed

  • @raddaradda8682
    @raddaradda8682 10 месяцев назад +68

    Let us also remember that the judge overseeing this case. Is someone who gave extended sentences to those convicted for the January 6th insurrection attempt..and now she has the final say for the man who encouraged it to happen.

    • @Dan55888
      @Dan55888 10 месяцев назад +3

      Wasnt he being trialed by a judge that already showed favor for him?
      Did they switch her out?

    • @Zee-et4rd
      @Zee-et4rd 10 месяцев назад

      Karma 🥰🥰🥰

    • @nancypine9952
      @nancypine9952 10 месяцев назад +14

      She dealt with him in an earlier case. When the House Judiciary Committee was holding its hearings last year they subpoenaed some documents and trump tried to withhold them. The matter ended up in front of this judge, and in her ruling she said, "we have presidents, not kings, and Mr. trump is no longer president." And then she ordered him to hand over the documents. Those same documents ended up in the hands of Jack Smith.

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 10 месяцев назад

      Well, not the final say.

    • @alexd9550
      @alexd9550 10 месяцев назад

      @@Dan55888 That's the judge for the documents case, this is for his role in attempting to subvert the election.

  • @lairdcummings9092
    @lairdcummings9092 10 месяцев назад +5

    *SO MUCH* to unpack here. I've watched this video three times over two days to digest everything going on. I'm sure I've still missed a few key points, and will have to watch it again.

  • @harrisonjohnson9792
    @harrisonjohnson9792 10 месяцев назад +16

    I really have to wonder how they're going to find an impartial jury to handle this trial.

    • @flower2289
      @flower2289 10 месяцев назад

      Impossible in D.C. That area is probably more than 80% Marxist.

    • @brianhirt5027
      @brianhirt5027 10 месяцев назад +4

      Ditto. The vetting process is likely to be the most intrusive & contentious of all time. Every single one of the jurors will have a book deal waiting for the statutory limits to pop, to boot.

    • @snaplash
      @snaplash 10 месяцев назад +5

      Will they be able to keep Dump cultists off the jury? It will take only one to mess it up.

    • @alphanerd7221
      @alphanerd7221 10 месяцев назад +8

      @@snaplash You ever know a trump fan to not spam their fascist BS all over the internet?

    • @jackster2568
      @jackster2568 10 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@alphanerd7221You don't know what fascism is.

  • @XXMatt0040XX
    @XXMatt0040XX 10 месяцев назад +51

    I've heard Jack Smith talk twice, *maybe* three times.
    He knows to keep his mouth shut, not only because it'd be bad for the trial but also because you should always listen to a man of few words.

    • @SeedFactoryProject
      @SeedFactoryProject 10 месяцев назад

      Smith has prosecuted war criminals, public corruption and election cases, and gangsters who killed cops. He has a highly developed death stare that Trump is afraid to face. His office says "we speak through our court filings", not through the news cycle.

  • @HeyMJ.
    @HeyMJ. 10 месяцев назад +181

    The need for a government protection order request highlights the need to address the defendant’s continued threats of harm.

    • @Reldan
      @Reldan 10 месяцев назад +16

      If that somebody was a witness and you were telling them you'd sue or sic the cops on them if they testified, then yeah that's a crime. Direct physical violence is not the only way to intimidate or threaten someone.

    • @MrFlarespeed
      @MrFlarespeed 10 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@chaiti1985a threat to sue is still a threat.

    • @chaiti1985
      @chaiti1985 10 месяцев назад

      @@MrFlarespeed.... its not a criminal threat. Are you purposefully pretending to be dense?

    • @roofdogblues7400
      @roofdogblues7400 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@chaiti1985 At least they're just pretending to be dense.
      Threats of harm don't have to be criminal threats, there are plenty of legal ways to threaten harm, a threat of harm is threatening harm, doesn't matter if the means of threat are legal or illegal.

    • @ko7577
      @ko7577 9 месяцев назад

      @@chaiti1985 LOL
      *Spoken to defend a person up on 91 felony charges, facing 641 years in prison*
      You don't seem to know what a crime is.

  • @ceddiec1111
    @ceddiec1111 10 месяцев назад

    I stumbled on this channel a few months ago and it has quickly become my favorite.

  • @KaiserSoze679
    @KaiserSoze679 9 месяцев назад +5

    .....and now this video needs a sequel already.

  • @Noogleminus
    @Noogleminus 10 месяцев назад +65

    There are really only two outcomes for this. Either he ends up behind bars or a massive percentage of the U.S. will lose faith in the justice system. Who knows where the latter would lead, but it wouldn't be good.

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 10 месяцев назад +17

      A large percentage will lose faith either way.

    • @Asstolfo96
      @Asstolfo96 10 месяцев назад

      Either the reds lose faith or the blues lose faith. Basically. He can still run for president from prison, so he could still end up president

    • @wlm1697
      @wlm1697 10 месяцев назад +3

      We would have more faith in it if they would actually hold the left accountable.🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @kellyradtke4885
      @kellyradtke4885 10 месяцев назад

      If "the left" whoever that is tries to overthrow an election and deprive voters of their chosen candidate pretty sure they would be indicted as well. I mean "the left" isn't a person so I guess if a person with left leaning politics commits a crime they will be, and have been, charged. Those other guys commit crimes too isn't a reason not to pursue charges against Trump, not charging him would be a dereliction of duty. Just as it would be if a crime was proven in a grand jury against "the left".

    • @Zorae42
      @Zorae42 10 месяцев назад +39

      @@wlm1697 accountable for what?

  • @mkklassicmk3895
    @mkklassicmk3895 10 месяцев назад +155

    The fact that it looks like they were willing/planning to use the insurrection act to put down those who would have had a problem with the attempted coup is terrifying.

    • @flower2289
      @flower2289 10 месяцев назад

      The "insurrection" was set up by the Democrats. Maybe someday your eyes will be opened. Unarmed old people don't conduct an insurrection. How can you be so blind to the truth?

    • @christopherbowlen254
      @christopherbowlen254 10 месяцев назад +2

      "COUP"!?

    • @mkklassicmk3895
      @mkklassicmk3895 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@christopherbowlen254 autocorrect + misspelling. Nice catch, I didn't even notice.

    • @johnsonspark171
      @johnsonspark171 10 месяцев назад +3

      there wasn't ain't no coupe. they were basically tourists and this is a witch hunt!

    • @absolstoryoffiction6615
      @absolstoryoffiction6615 10 месяцев назад

      They call this an insurrection given the riots in America at the time...
      The Deep State knew what they did... The people are pawns.

  • @judithbradford9130
    @judithbradford9130 10 месяцев назад +7

    they sold these lies like crazy so they could pretend there was doubt about the results and then pretend the delusions they soldpeople needed to be settled it is obvious they would never accept the truth

  • @DrChilltacular
    @DrChilltacular 10 месяцев назад +36

    Please continue to do you. The method of explanation and detail oriented yet understandable explanation of law and enforcement that you provide are deeply appreciated. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

    • @ashton4950
      @ashton4950 9 месяцев назад

      Yes, totally agree with you. He’s a wonderful resource for everyday people. Short, sweet, and easy to comprehend.

  • @Dr.Schlitz
    @Dr.Schlitz 10 месяцев назад +391

    From a fellow attorney, I say “well done.” This video clearly explains the mens rea issues in the indictment.

    • @andrewegan7011
      @andrewegan7011 10 месяцев назад +1

      This you tuber often criticises the English. It is pleasing to see a legal mind acknowledge the common law gifted to the US.

    • @hadronoftheseus8829
      @hadronoftheseus8829 10 месяцев назад +22

      As a non attorney, it's strongly apparent that the indictment itself is written in such a way as to be as lucid and readily intelligible as possible to the lay public.

    • @leetroy3129
      @leetroy3129 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@andrewegan7011You don’t have to be an attorney to be familiar with the term mens rea. We Meidas Mighty know it because Arty Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network (MTN) taught us it. 💙 the Meiselas brothers.

    • @emaarredondo-librarian
      @emaarredondo-librarian 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@leetroy3129 It is mentioned too in the film Legally Blonde.

    • @flower2289
      @flower2289 10 месяцев назад +2

      As a fellow attorney you should know better. This is nothing but political persecution.

  • @duro123
    @duro123 10 месяцев назад +222

    We need to be swift with this. We need to ensure no one ever tries to pull this crap ever again

    • @TisDana
      @TisDana 10 месяцев назад +7

      The hearing is set for August 28. It’s moving.

    • @wlm1697
      @wlm1697 10 месяцев назад +5

      Try what again exactly?🤔

    • @thyrussendria8198
      @thyrussendria8198 10 месяцев назад +7

      No, haste makes waste and creates errors

    • @JohnDoe-jh5yr
      @JohnDoe-jh5yr 10 месяцев назад

      The trial date will be set at the end of this month.

    • @noname7271
      @noname7271 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@wlm1697The entire laundry list of crimes that Trump commited including trying to steal the election.

  • @Youtube_is_Trash
    @Youtube_is_Trash 9 месяцев назад +3

    4:48 wait wait wait, slow down here
    If someone says they will commit a crime and actually do the crime, it's a crime???
    Whoa, that's impinding on free speech! Read the Constitution!

  • @amyhull754
    @amyhull754 9 месяцев назад +2

    OMG you dropped in an image of COUNT VON COUNT!!!!! I'm DYING.

  • @badpuppy3
    @badpuppy3 10 месяцев назад +471

    This isn't like a burglary that happened in the dark of night. We all watched this crime unfold in real time with our own eyes. There is no defense.

    • @fluWmiR
      @fluWmiR 10 месяцев назад +10

      The basis of our legal system is that there is a defence to every alleged crime.

    • @AlteryxGaming
      @AlteryxGaming 10 месяцев назад +54

      @@fluWmiRwith the entire nation having served effectively as witnesses, any attempt at a defense is a good as futile. Although the fact that the accused is more than welcome to exercise their rights it would be a mercy to us all if he just pled guilty and accepted his wrongdoings.

    • @HaleyStark.
      @HaleyStark. 10 месяцев назад

      What crime lol? An ACTUALLY mostly peaceful protest after 2 years of criminal riots?

    • @quillmaurer6563
      @quillmaurer6563 10 месяцев назад +48

      The problem is the question isn't "did he do that," as we all know he did. The question is "is what he did okay," and a frightening portion of Americans believe it was, that the end - Trump remaining in power despite attempts of a "deep state" to undermine him - justified the means. To them it's like a situation where someone killed someone else in broad daylight with many witnesses and security camera footage, but the defendant claims it was justified self-defense - not a question of what happened, but why and if it was for the right reasons.

    • @slothmonster7165
      @slothmonster7165 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah and i cannot believe trump believers still buy into the big lie. With all the evidence of fake electors, video tapes, audio tapes, eye witnesses from multiple branches of government and his own staff.

  • @Tienkou111
    @Tienkou111 10 месяцев назад +240

    As Finnish citizen your legal system is… special, so thanks for explaining all this mess with interesting and informative way! And what a mess you have… I hope you cage that weasel and we can all forget his name for good.

    • @johnopalko5223
      @johnopalko5223 10 месяцев назад +20

      Yeah, "special" is one way to describe it...

    • @jakebe4915
      @jakebe4915 10 месяцев назад +22

      Pray for us. If ORANGE regains power, it's 1933 Germany..he's so dangerous...a real Bond Villain

    • @mrtee3988
      @mrtee3988 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@jakebe4915 Are you trolling?

    • @specialnewb9821
      @specialnewb9821 10 месяцев назад +4

      Yes, adversarial systems are bad and ours is extra stupid

    • @lotusinn3
      @lotusinn3 10 месяцев назад +19

      @@teamgeist3328 Yeah, on opposite day.

  • @advocacynaccountablity
    @advocacynaccountablity 10 месяцев назад +164

    The fact that a President can legally lie about winning the election (as in the case of Trump), is something we need to look at going forward. And by going forward I mean, immediately.

    • @Sewblon
      @Sewblon 10 месяцев назад +10

      Nothing we can do about that. Political speech is constitutionally protected speech.

    • @dapeck04
      @dapeck04 10 месяцев назад +9

      What about Hillary? Not as much fuss when she did it.

    • @thecrazyinsanity
      @thecrazyinsanity 10 месяцев назад +29

      @@dapeck04 well because she was never president

    • @adrianwatson1640
      @adrianwatson1640 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@dapeck04When did Hillary legally lie about winning the election.

    • @Kyle_P
      @Kyle_P 10 месяцев назад +4

      This idea has been brought up before in a video mentioning the first amendment here on this channel. What are you allowed to say, and does that language ever cross a threshold where it’s not protected speech anymore? The classic anecdote has always been shouting fire in a crowded theater, which would probably be covered as free speech and allowed for a variety of reasons.
      The deal is it’s impossible to cover every scenario, and some carry vastly different amounts of weight. It’s an extremely frustrating situation to be in. There has to be a line, but it’s impossible to cleanly draw one.

  • @MrBroady02
    @MrBroady02 10 месяцев назад +6

    I liked the old editors work but this editor has done an equally amazing job.

  • @jnerdsblog
    @jnerdsblog 10 месяцев назад +151

    Thank you for being a clear, informed, and straightforward source of legal info on this insanity.

  • @SuperAmazinglover
    @SuperAmazinglover 10 месяцев назад +149

    Them crying about their 1st Amendment rights being violated is just an attempt to gaslight their base into believing the government is against them.

    • @chaiti1985
      @chaiti1985 10 месяцев назад +5

      Left or right, I don't think anyone thinks the government is out for their personal best interests. Government is for its own growth and development of power.

    • @SuperAmazinglover
      @SuperAmazinglover 10 месяцев назад +17

      @chaiti1985 Okay, what does that have anything to do with what I said other than to change the subject and shill for trump.

    • @Brasswatchman
      @Brasswatchman 10 месяцев назад

      Their base is already with them. The First Amendment thing is an attempt to make them think they have a legal leg to stand on here.

    • @sithus1966
      @sithus1966 10 месяцев назад +11

      I heard the 1st Amendment claims and the first thing that came to mind is you still can't yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater and not expect there to be consequences.

    • @rodrigojds
      @rodrigojds 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@chaiti1985that is obviously incorrect. You’re acting as if the government is a singular entity when in fact it’s made by the people. Governments don’t grow..people in the governments try to

  • @samuelbankston2108
    @samuelbankston2108 10 месяцев назад +5

    The guy even lied to his own attorney, getting him to perjure himself.

  • @Michaelthekiwi
    @Michaelthekiwi 10 месяцев назад +7

    Using these standards, wouldn't Senators and Representatives who voted against certification of State election results would potentially be part of this conspiracy and subject to indictment as well?

    • @tuckernaughton
      @tuckernaughton 10 месяцев назад +13

      No. There are provisions of the law that allow for objections by congress. There is no provision for the president to ask the vice president to overturn the election.

    • @Bluemew1234
      @Bluemew1234 10 месяцев назад +1

      You would probably have to prove they did so without any actual concerns, want to score political points, etc. And that they only wanted to falsely flip the election.

    • @Alan-jk1yi
      @Alan-jk1yi 10 месяцев назад +5

      If the objections/delays are made through the appropriate legal systems, even if very shady, it's legal. That's why Trump's numerous insane lawsuits never have and probably never will result in any criminal charges (though the feelings of the BAR Association are a different matter), because, while completely baseless, they were carried out through the proper channels. If he and those around him had done everything out in the open, it would probably be harder to make these charges stick.

    • @Michaelthekiwi
      @Michaelthekiwi 10 месяцев назад

      @@tuckernaughton however, the Congressional and Senate voting blocks were organised and subordinate to the wishes of Trump. While the casting of the vote inside the chamber cannot be questioned, the conspiracy that organised the voting against certification of election results would be subject to these laws.
      It would send a message to politicians that they are not above the law and must act with integrity. The only Republicans coming out of this not covered in the stink of Trump's corruption are the likes of Pence, Romney and Liz Cheney who refused to go along with this and fully repudiated the idea that the election was fraudulent.

    • @michaelallen1432
      @michaelallen1432 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@tuckernaughtonmore over, telling pence he's "too honest" indicates knowledge that what Trump was asked to do was dishonest.

  • @amy_grace
    @amy_grace 10 месяцев назад +84

    “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit, 2018

    • @jaram6049
      @jaram6049 10 месяцев назад +3

      I just googled this guy, and man...talking about issues with having the same last name as some famous guy, lol.

  • @easyduzit6118
    @easyduzit6118 10 месяцев назад +216

    More importantly Trump told his staff that he knew he lost. There was testimony to Congress to that effect.

    • @avsystem3142
      @avsystem3142 10 месяцев назад

      There is evidence that Trump admitted he lost on multiple occasions. The witnesses against him are all Republicans.

    • @toddr2265
      @toddr2265 10 месяцев назад +8

      Everyone knows he lost

    • @JF-fx2qv
      @JF-fx2qv 10 месяцев назад

      So?

    • @normanorman
      @normanorman 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@JF-fx2qv did you even watch the video or were you instantly triggered

    • @spudsbuchlaw
      @spudsbuchlaw 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@JF-fx2qv He...knew he lost
      So by saying he actually won, he's knowingly lying
      And then using that lie to launch an assault on the capitol? Like...did you watch the video?

  • @opertinicy
    @opertinicy 9 месяцев назад +6

    it's nucking futs that folks still believe (in) trump..these loyalist aren't grounded in specific policy, but rather a perfect reflection of the 'cult of personality' which he has established among a loyal base. scary/crazy

  • @jjsc4396
    @jjsc4396 10 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent detailed summary. Your narratives and presentation are outstanding 👍🏻

  • @confusedamishman
    @confusedamishman 10 месяцев назад +33

    Every time there is some legal news, I’m impatiently waiting for a Legal Eagle video. Thank you for always doing such a great job of breaking down this stuff for the layman, Devin and crew.

  • @JerryGoNuts
    @JerryGoNuts 10 месяцев назад +28

    This video is now an important, historical record -- this needs to go viral.

  • @Bigandrewm
    @Bigandrewm 10 месяцев назад +7

    The whole "understanding the state of mind" of a defendant makes sense for most people, but there has to be a point at which this concept becomes irrelevant, without which a bad actor deliberately making themselves willfully ignorant is a valid defense. For example, someone with lots of power who has free access to the best legal advice in the country should have a duty to learn correct information relevant to their circumstances. Especially when there is a large selfish incentive to break the law to further their own power. Willful ignorance like this should be yet another criticism of such a defendant's behavior rather than a defense.

    • @anicagoodchild5882
      @anicagoodchild5882 9 месяцев назад

      I don’t know about the states, but in Canada, ignorance of the law is never a defence. You can’t argue your way out of an offence by claiming to not something was unlawful.

    • @davidgustavsson4000
      @davidgustavsson4000 9 месяцев назад

      At the very least, using such a defense should also limit your options in the future. "Sorry, sir, you can't run for a second term now that a court of law has declared you incapable of rational thought"

  • @rosaleesmith8772
    @rosaleesmith8772 6 месяцев назад

    Love the way you segue into the commercials!!! It makes me wade through the commercials!!😂😂😂💯💯💯👍😵💕

  • @PaleImperator
    @PaleImperator 10 месяцев назад +98

    It does strike me as a bit disturbing that the reaction of a certain segment of the voting populace to a criminal defense that says, in essence "I'm too deluded to listen to any actual expert about my having lost an election" is "Yeah! Four more years!"

    • @avacadomangobanana2588
      @avacadomangobanana2588 10 месяцев назад

      American moment. We intentionally make our education system bad for this very reason

    • @erisgh0sted961
      @erisgh0sted961 10 месяцев назад

      Simpleton Nazis being simpleton Nazis. Luckily it's a very small. They think because a thousand Twitter bots, and RUclips bots agree with them that they're this mythical "silent majority" they should have been majority silent.

    • @MekareP
      @MekareP 10 месяцев назад

      I knew it back during Obama's presidency with the bs he got people to believe. I'm utterly convinced humans are really really really really dumb.

    • @avsystem3142
      @avsystem3142 10 месяцев назад

      Actually, they are listening to "experts'. Fox news has no shortage of attorneys willing to falsely explain that what Trump did is protected by the First Amendment. It wouldn't surprise if some of them end up being disbarred for making patently false public statement about the law. That is simply unethical.

    • @Marius-J
      @Marius-J 10 месяцев назад +5

      I'm pretty sure they're brainwashed

  • @erikdayne5429
    @erikdayne5429 10 месяцев назад +197

    This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Trump is so obviously guilty. He needs to be held accountable for the sake of democracy itself. We cannot normalize inciting insurrections if you lose an election.

    • @Kevin-bl6lg
      @Kevin-bl6lg 10 месяцев назад

      Trump for King Donald of America!

    • @DramaticBloodyBirds
      @DramaticBloodyBirds 10 месяцев назад +29

      I feel quite hopeless because it seems like nothing will be done. Maybe 'this time' it will, but it's been clear he's a completely unhinged individual running a cult, and yet time and again, nothing happens. I am so tired of the 'maybe this time' I have to cling onto. I really hope that this time he will be put away. This country is taking a nosedive and he is one of the many reasons.

    • @stroodleboots5360
      @stroodleboots5360 10 месяцев назад +3

      ⁠​⁠@@DramaticBloodyBirdsthen move to Russia. America is doing just fine. It has its faults but feeling helpless is overkill.

    • @kingacrisius
      @kingacrisius 10 месяцев назад +46

      ​@@stroodleboots5360 Bruh, you cannot seriously be...America is not doing fine. There are so many problems with it and genuine reasons to not like it here. Russia is quite literally one of the worst countries you could live in right now. It's not good faith to try to argue with someone saying America isn't good by saying "well it's even worse in Russia!". That's just dumb. There are plenty of other countries better than America, but it's hard to move, it requires a lot of money, and in some cases you need to learn a new language. Objectively, America is not the best country to live in. Other countries have higher happiness and quality of life metrics, they live longer, they have better literacy and education statistics, they have less homelessness and unemployed...there are so many ways that America is objectively worse than many other countries.

    • @maromania7
      @maromania7 10 месяцев назад

      What next, kick your kids out the second they annoy you? If you actually like something you want to fix it, not just abandon it or ignore its faults.@@stroodleboots5360

  • @fae206
    @fae206 10 месяцев назад +2

    I admit, one, I might be not as intelligent on this matter as I should be, and two, I might be biased, I consider myself independent but I’m in the Bay Area and lean Liberal
    Why would people go through so much and then do so little?
    Aside from making money for large companies and individuals with the tax cuts etc. and promoting people to the Supreme Court, the Republicans seemed to work on a platform of denial, whether this is stupidly blocking all legislation brought by Democrats or denying rights to trans/illegal immigrants. It’s not as if they took the chance to ACHIEVE or CHANGE just TAKE and DENY
    I’d be more sympathetic to Republicans if they had some point to their deceit and aggression
    If you choose to enlighten me, I’d love to hear it

  • @agent_meister477
    @agent_meister477 9 месяцев назад +5

    It's easy to imagine Trump staring blankly at his legal team as they try to explain the situation using your crowbar analogy.

  • @theroguerider
    @theroguerider 10 месяцев назад +81

    Again, I just want to thank you and your team for these videos that help me understand exactly what they’re are indicting him on and why it’s so important for us to know. Keep up the great work Legal Eagles.

    • @benji7577
      @benji7577 10 месяцев назад

      Me too! I appreciate the facts and from there people can make their stance. But you can’t deny the overwhelming evidence.

  • @mrviphd7307
    @mrviphd7307 10 месяцев назад +19

    That crowbar comparison was actually very helpfull to understand how all that works legally!

  • @fernandozavaletabustos205
    @fernandozavaletabustos205 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for another video regarding legal controversies in the US!

  • @CBoxStudios
    @CBoxStudios 10 месяцев назад +135

    We need a follow up about his lawyer just admitting to his crimes on tv.

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 10 месяцев назад +25

      Yep. Even from far in the pacific, I spurted my coffee seeing that interview. Which bottom barrel lawschool that guy comes from? Is the same with that "I use chat-GPT to write my filling of lawsuit" guy?.

    • @Tricia_K
      @Tricia_K 10 месяцев назад +2

      😮🙄😆😆

    • @doctorno3912
      @doctorno3912 10 месяцев назад +5

      Trump hires the best! Lmfao

    • @ryshow9118
      @ryshow9118 10 месяцев назад +5

      TFG doesn't pay his bills and approximately a dozen of his former representatives are no longer allowed to serve as council. Shocker

    • @bobthegoat7090
      @bobthegoat7090 10 месяцев назад

      Now I hate Trump, but when I saw that interview I am pretty sure she just meant: "Everybody was told by some of their advisers, that Trump lost the election". So yes, Trump was told by many that he lost the election, but that does not mean he believed it. She just said it incorrectly, so I don't think it will have a significance in court.

  • @DouglasRosser
    @DouglasRosser 10 месяцев назад +282

    It warms the cockles of my heart that every Jan 6 guilty plea and judgement lays the foundation for the downfall of The Cheetoh Benito.

    • @absolstoryoffiction6615
      @absolstoryoffiction6615 10 месяцев назад +1

      Meanwhile... The Democrats played the game smart. They knew this. There is no saint here. Only Hell on Earth.

    • @AnarexicSumo
      @AnarexicSumo 10 месяцев назад

      @@absolstoryoffiction6615By not trying to hang the vice president and then cover up involvement in the insure? Don’t blame Democrats for what Republicans did lmao

    • @kelleren4840
      @kelleren4840 10 месяцев назад +25

      @@absolstoryoffiction6615 cry more?

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 10 месяцев назад

      The Turd Reich

    • @conniecoco6524
      @conniecoco6524 10 месяцев назад

      @@absolstoryoffiction6615 ? speak english plz, angel boy

  • @rawrimsobig
    @rawrimsobig 10 месяцев назад +2

    I absolutely love quiet humor. The image of the Count from Sesame Street? Perfection!

  • @Cedsbestwife
    @Cedsbestwife 10 месяцев назад +2

    I waited with my fingers and toes crossed, hoping Devin would go over this development via video… and now I can’t even get excited because now I want him to speak on the Montgomery riverboat episode 😂
    *spoiled 😂