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'Everything is going to be fine': Trump attorney says legal team is secretly 'winning'
January 29, 2023
Former President Donald Trump may be facing multiple investigations and lawsuits but "everything is going to be fine," according to his attorney.
In an appearance on the His Glory broadcast last week, attorney Alina Habba was asked about "why there should be hope for America and the world."
"When people bring cases against [Trump], which worries a lot of people," Habba said, "when you have those but they're not within merit, there are systems in place, even when you have crooked judges, Appellate Division, etc."
"And we've been winning," she continued. "They're not going to be, but I'll invite people to ask me questions directly next time I'm on with you. But I am happy to because that's something people worry about."
Habba added: "But I have to tell you, everything is going to be fine."
The attorney insisted that Trump "has always been by the book so I will see you all in 2024."
Habba is representing Trump in multiple legal cases in New York, including a lawsuit alleging he raped journalist E. Jean Carroll.
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Kevin McCarthy is going to have a hard time having any credibility in House investigations: former Republican
January 29, 2023
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) thinks that newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is going to have a difficult time trying to hold the kind of hearings that Republicans want.
Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday, Kinzinger asked about McCarthy defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee last year, and how that will work out for him in the GOP Congress.
"He did not defend the integrity of House investigations," said Kinzinger, who was one of the Republicans to serve on the committee. "And so as they do their investigations, he'll have to live with that, live with that precedent. And he's got a tightrope to walk. He has a very thin majority. One of his people lies about literally everything. And for me, it disturbs me, yes, the Jan. 6 stuff, but just the lack of respect for the institution."
Kinzinger went on to say that he doesn't think McCarthy had a lot to hide from Jan. 6, unlike other members, but he was playing the "game."
"And that game was to stand against and pretend that Jan. 6 was nothing but a tourist visit, and now, as they have their Oversight coming up, there are people that could use that prior precedent and we'll see what happens," he explained.
Acosta asked if the subpoenas sent out by Republicans would even mean anything.
"Could the subject of those subpoenas say, well, look at what happened with the Jan. 6 committee? Why do I need to comply and so on?" he asked.
Kinzinger agreed, "each one of these iterations lowers the credibility for the House and long-term for this country that is a bad thing."
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The evidence the special prosecutor has against Trump for Jan. 6 explained by former DOJ lawyers
January 29, 2023
Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks and Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann joined Jen Taub's podcast "Booked Up" podcast Sunday to discuss possible charges against Donald Trump. The full report, interviews and supplemental materials fully released by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, and it's drawing speculation from the legal community about the case against Trump.
The case made by the Congressional committee was handed over to the Justice Department at the end of last year and Attorney General Merrick Garland tasked a special prosecutor with navigating both the Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump and the stolen White House documents case as well.
Weissmann recalled his attempt to try Vincent Gigante, who was part of the Genovese crime family in New York. Gigante went by the nickname "The Chin," and would spend his time running around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe, acting insane so that he could claim that he wasn't competent to stand trial. When to him or about him, he required that they gesture to their chin so as not to say his name and be captured on a wire. Trump similarly doesn't use email or text messages to avoid having evidence that could be linked to him.
So, one of the ways investigators caught him was to have someone use Gigante's name to see what would happen. Once his name was mentioned, he was immediately chastised and told never to use his name again. It proved to be the evidence necessary to link Gigante more directly to the evidence. He ended up behind bars until his death in 2005.
It's a lot like Trump's case in that there's not a ton of "direct" evidence about him, Weissmann explained.
So, when it comes to Trump's case, he can claim that it was just his foot soldiers acting independently of him.
"Just because you’re the person who incited it doesn’t mean you’re not just as responsible” as those who committed the violence, Weissmann said.
Taub asked Weissmann what he would say in the closing argument while prosecuting Trump for Jan. 6. He said simply that any person would be prosecuted for doing what Trump did.
"And you know that because everyone who went to the Capitol, the foot soldiers, were prosecuted," he continued. "It doesn't matter what their motive was. It doesn't matter if they thought they were doing it for Trump. It doesn't matter if they thought it was some other conspiracy theory. It's not about politics. It's about their actions and their intent."
He went on to say that he anticipates that there will be a considerable amount of evidence available to the DOJ that was known publicly. For one thing, he highlighted that there were many people who pleaded their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Those people could be given immunity by the DOJ. Anyone claiming executive privilege previously will have to testify to the grand jury.
In terms of the charges, Weissmann said that the insurrection charge isn't something to blink at, but obstructing Congress is a significant charge. Connecting Trump more directly to the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys militias is going to be key, and those pieces are "they're just not fleshed out" yet.
Kevin McCarthy also testified that on the call with Trump, the former president blamed Antifa for the attacks and McCarthy responded, "Who do you think you're talking to?"
"That's such great evidence because it's his falsely claiming who's there and you know that's not the case. So why would you be doing that unless you encouraged and wanted this to happen," Weissmann closed.
When Wine-Banks addressed the case, she said that one of the biggest problems is calling this "Jan. 6". when the efforts began long before Jan. 6 and even before the 2020 election.
While she agreed that the obstruction charge is important, she pointed out that one of the key things that the insurrection charge does is that it prevents Trump from ever holding office again.
Weissmann wondered if the DOJ would bring that charge but not seek that piece as a remedy so as not to appear political. Wine-Banks said that the Constitution must be protected. She recalled in the Paul Manafort trial that even the most loyal Trump supporter on the jury acknowledged that despite their support of the president, the law is the law, and he still supported Trump even though he agreed that the laws were broken.
"So I think the case is pretty strong. There would be a conviction and the remedy has to be what is set forth. And, you know, do I think the president should go to jail? Well, I think that he deserves to go to jail. Do I think he will go to hail? No, I don't. I think it's unseemly. But I do think he could be barred from running for office."
She went on to say that it seems Trump is doing everything he can to lose anyway, calling his campaign "pathetic."
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