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Jonathan Karl
@jonkarl
Giuliani tells me he's working on Trump's impeachment defense and tells me he'd argue his voter fraud claims in the Senate trial:
"If you can prove that it's true," he says of Trump's speech before the riot, "they are no longer fighting words."
Giuliani says he's working on Trump's impeachment defense, would argue voter fraud claims
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani tells ABC News he's working as part of the president's defense team in his upcoming second impeachment trial.
abcnews.go.com
7:43 PM · Jan 16, 2021
https://abcnews.go.com/US/giuliani-working-trumps-impeachment-defense-argue-voter-fraud/story?id=75302032
If he's allowed to do that it will be a shitshow. I guess he thinks this is another one of those shan hearings he did.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)for himself, Trump and the GOP.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)is bound to prevail.
Srkdqltr
(6,297 posts)Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)nt
mzmolly
(50,996 posts)apparently.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)mzmolly
(50,996 posts)of anything, but still need a pardon.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Court to decide if common law also still requires traitors be drawn and quartered
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)that they had a very good reason to be mad at that person when they planted a bomb in the victim's car?
In many cases, such as this one, it doesn't matter why you did this thing, it just matters that you did it. Period. That's the question before the jurors. Did you do it? Okay, then nobody gives a fuck why.
Incitement is not not incitement just because you genuinely believe someone different should be, or is, president.
Disaffected
(4,557 posts)whether the voter fraud claims were true or not.
Try Rudolf, try. Try, TRY Harder!
Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)Trump's counsels in his various failed cases (including Giuliani) have shied away from allegations of "fraud", presumably for fear of that charge.
Some background from The Atlantic:
Why Republicans Are Refusing to Testify
Dishonesty and disinformation have become regular features of Americas national discourse, but under oath, truth still matters.
The House vote to impeach the president cues up a Senate trial on the charges, and the Republican leadership appears determined to prevent key fact witnesses close to the president from testifying. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called any witness list that House impeachment managers and the presidents defenders might negotiate mutually assured destruction. Resistance to live testimony arises because, while dishonesty and disinformation have become regular features of Americas national discourse, witnesses under oath cannot lie with impunity. Should they commit perjury, they may find that court is one of those places where facts still matter, as Judge Amy Berman Jackson put it to Paul Manafort at his recent sentencing for, among other things, lying to investigators.
A dozen administration officials defied House subpoenas for testimony or documents relevant to the impeachment proceedings. Despite Senate Democrats request for witnesses at the trial, there now seems only the slimmest chanceperhaps as the result of some procedural vote or a ruling by Chief Justice Roberts while he presides over the trialthat John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, or others will finally take the stand. Some of the potential witnesses have already asserted facts and staked out positions publicly. But there is a crucial difference between cable-news interviews, press conferences, and tweets on the one hand, and statements under oath on the other.
Should these witnesses testify, they can resist certain questionsfor example by invoking executive privilege or their own Fifth Amendment rightsand they would surely insert do not recalls into the record, but they would face consequences for lying. The president often characterizes his public comments on pending investigations as freedom of speech or fighting back, but his aides have no First Amendment right to lie under oath, and perjury is never excused by self-defense. As the Supreme Court stated in the Bryson case 50 years ago: Our legal system provides methods for challenging the Governments right to ask questionslying is not one of them.
...
The elements required to prove perjury are stringent and specific. Under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1621, prosecutors must demonstrate that the sworn statement is false, that the lie is willful and deliberate, and that the statement could influence the proceeding. Cases can be difficult to prosecute and prove, because perjury requires clear and direct questions and brazenly untrue responses. The law does not prohibit trivial falsehoods or carelessness, statements that are misleading but literally true, or statements that are incomplete and merely evasive.
The general perjury statute covers false evidence presented to tribunals other than courts that act with the authority of law, including Congress. Should witnesses lie to Congress, they could laterup to five years later, given the statute of limitationsface a criminal indictment in court. Impeachment proceedings have intersected with perjury charges before. Both President Richard Nixons chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, and his attorney general, John Mitchell, served time in prison for perjury committed before the Senate Watergate Committee. And one of the articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton arose from his testimony to the grand jury and sworn deposition in Paula Joness civil suit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/perjury-truth-courts/603727/
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)oh bring this on
barbtries
(28,799 posts)loser!
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)to be sure everybody follows the Senate's rules. If the Senate's rules allow Rudy to do his thing, the CJ won't stop him.
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Still defends Trump after he stiffs him for legal bills and tells the WH not to take his calls. How pathetic can he get.
Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)nt
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Wonder who will win??
adamas
(14 posts)NT
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Asking for a friend.
Nevilledog
(51,121 posts)In a criminal case (my area of experience) an attorney who might be called as a witness would be removed.
AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)-
you can prove it's true... blah, blah, blah, bullshit on top of bullshit, and further more, my glasses are crooked, and that proves my case."
I'm still waiting on THAT part.
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