The Justice Department Monday criticized former President Trump for “attempts to sanitize his conduct” leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, urging a judge to reject several motions to dismiss the case and disentangle Trump from the storming of the building.
The four filings, together more than 100 pages, respond to a series of pretrial motions filed by the Trump team last month asking the judge to toss the former president’s 2020 election case on a number of grounds, ranging from arguments the charges step on his First Amendment rights and that his speech simply amounted to raising concerns about the election to claims he is facing a “vindictive prosecution.”
Prosecutors forcefully defended their indictment while accusing Trump of “perpetrating an unprecedented campaign of deceit.”
The part that gives me the most hope in all this is he can’t pardon himself out of the NY fraud case or the Georgia interference case. The former is a state civil case and the latter is a state criminal case.
And vis a vis his dream of arresting his opponents, I imagine that even if he guts the entire White House and installs only cronies, he’ll still face opposition across the other branches of government and the various state governments that would inevitably need to be involved.
Oh, definitely. I don’t want to test that, though. Better for him to not get anywhere near the White House ever again.