His Tweet of January 6 being wild is intent
My introduction: In
court under oath a person on trial lies – that’s a crime – when a jury finds defendant
guilty no matter how they pled, still guilty, and if they admit openly to a
crime say in public or on radio. TV, on a telephone message, etc., then well: oops.
That is enough to send them to jail even without a trial, per se – that is by
their own admission of the stated crime with or without officially having been charged
and/or tried and found guilty by a jury.
Related from the story below: “Self-incriminating: Legal experts warn Trump's admission at rally may be admissible evidence”
The full story from Salon.com with this headline on those points:
“He
has the right to remain silent” Legal experts say Trump’s Truth Social post may
be evidence”
Trump appeared to admit to taking secret national security
documents home to Mar-a-Lago in a lengthy Truth Social rant on Monday (November
28).
Trump spent much of the day lashing out at new special counsel Jack Smith, who was tapped by AG Merrick
Garland to oversee the DOJ’s investigations into classified documents
seized from Mar-a-Lago and Trump's role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Trump repeatedly falsely equated bringing the documents to
his residence to the standard process the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) used to preserve presidential documents for past
officeholders' presidential libraries.
Attempting to discredit Jack Smith as a hit man for Obama and a fully weaponized monster, Trump insisted he is innocent saying: “Unless the six previous Presidents did something wrong also.”
Trump wrote in another post, seemingly admitting to taking documents home, unlike past presidents whose documents were overseen by NARA: “When will you invade the other Presidents' homes in search of documents, which are voluminous, which they took with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?”
Trump repeatedly and falsely has claimed: “Barack Obama, Bill
Clinton, and George H. W. Bush all took millions of documents from the White
House (when they left office).”
A CNN fact-check noted in October proves all of
those Trump claims false.
NARA issued a rare statement rejecting those Trump attacks,
stating in part that: “The claims
that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession
of the former Presidents or their representatives, after they left office, or
that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and
misleading.”
Legal observers and others have cited the false claim as
potential evidence in a possible prosecution.
Washington Post
reporter Josh Dawsey tweeted: “Imagine Trump's lawyers may
not love that final line of his latest Truth Social post.”
National security attorney Brad Moss said the post could be entered as an exhibit into evidence at a potential trial as he wrote: “He has the right to remain silent.”
Note: The Fifth Amendment to the United States
Constitution addresses criminal procedure and other aspects of the
Constitution. It was ratified, along with nine other articles, in 1791 as
part of the Bill of Rights.
Based on that Moss
statement is the proverbial icing on the cake from renowned former federal
prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner wrote this about Trump’s openly posted
statement which said: “I took them (the government documents that were not my
property) . . . openly & transparently.”
Kirschner then wrote: “I
love when a (future) defendant unequivocally admits to the crime. Ladies &
gentleman of the jury, we ask you to return the ONLY verdict consistent w/the
evidence. Guilty.”
My 2 cents: All that and the basic confession from Trump reminds me
of this from justice in the Wild, Wild West court paraphrased from a movie from
Judge Roy Bean to jury: “Bring the guilty
bastard in, I’ll give him a fair trial, and then we’ll hang him.”
Trump’s admission about
taking the Mar-a-Lago classified documents is revealing and stark – so will he
skate or will the country get the justice we say we cherish that states: “No
one is above the law.”
Wait and see but hang on
tight, it might get a whole lot uglier than ever before with, against, and from Trump.
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