In interviews, on tape -- and consented to (wholly-unlike Veritas' M.O., ironically, in each case) -- for a forthcoming book -- Tangerine defended, at length the deadly-crowd, as it headed to the January 6 riot/insurrection at the Capitol chanting "Hang Mike Pence!":
. . .Karl: "They were saying 'hang Mike Pence.'"
Trump: "Because it's common sense, Jon. It's common sense that you're supposed to protect. How can you — if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? — how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that? And I'm telling you: 50/50, it's right down the middle for the top constitutional scholars when I speak to them. Anybody I spoke to — almost all of them at least pretty much agree, and some very much agree with me — because he's passing on a vote that he knows is fraudulent. How can you pass a vote that you know is fraudulent? Now, when I spoke to him, I really talked about all of the fraudulent things that happened during the election.
I didn't talk about the main point, which is the legislatures did not approve — five states. The legislatures did not approve all of those changes that made the difference between a very easy win for me in the states, or a loss that was very close, because the losses were all very close. . . ."
I am fairly certain, even in a smoke-filled private boys' club, no former president ever defended violence against his own running mate / co-office holder. Ever -- and certainly never in an on the record, recorded interview. But. . . here we are. And I for one, know why all things now seem so fraught -- with "leadership" like that. Out.
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And as long as I'm ranting(!) -- the courts are. . . the peoples' courts. They are (absent COVID-19 restrictions) open to. . . "We, the People."
ReplyDeleteThe idea that the defense lawyers in the Ahmaud Arbery homicide trial (for the white vigilantes) think they can object to who attends the trial, in the gallery. . . is insane.
If Rev. Sharpton or Rev. Jesse Jackson is there to support the family/victim's rights. . . that is. . . exactly. . . the way our pluralistic America. . . works.
These [southern] criminal defense lawyers. . . are disgusting -- in the suggestion that our court-house doors should only be open to local (and largely white, in their minds) landowners. . . that is. . . repugnant:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-trial-day-6-friday/index.html
I'll hush now.
But they've already lost on this.
Namaste. . . .
Actually, I may now make this a new post, thus:
ReplyDelete. . .Ben Crump, an attorney for Arbery’s father, declared that more Black religious leaders were on the way.
“We are going to bring 100 Black pastors to pray with the family next week,” he said in a statement, “and we welcome all those who want to show their support and add their prayers to ours. . . .”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/12/ahmaud-arbery-trial-black-pastors/
This is precisely the correct answer.
A young man was gunned down, in cold blood, by these defendants.
How dare that shyster try to say who may support this aggrieved, and grieving, family?
Out.