Rep. Eric Swalwell: Trump 'has to meet legal accountability' for trying to steal election

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Friday night said he believes that Donald Trump was the mastermind behind the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, during which Swalwell says he feared for his life, and that, if so, Trump must be held legally accountable.

Swalwell appeared on The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell Friday, when he was asked if he thinks special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the insurrection would "get to" the former president and resulting in another indictment of Trump.

"Look, in a crime like this, you have the hustle and the muscle. And as somebody who was on the other side of the doors that those terrorists were trying to bang down and get into, and cause great bodily injury to the lives of the people on the floor, I'm grateful that the Department of Justice has gone after the muscle," Swalwell said.

The lawmaker added that "the hustle is Donald Trump."

"I am still convinced that if Donald Trump had accepted the outcome of the 2020 election when it was called by the media, or when people went to vote in the individual states to certify the electoral college votes in their states, if he had conceded, even when Mitch McConnell had finally in December conceded that Donald Trump was not going to be the president, if he had conceded then and not shown up to the January 6th rally, ask yourself. 'Would this have happened?' and I'm convinced that, but for Trump, it would never have happened. If that's the case, he's the hustle. And if that's the case, he has to meet legal accountability."

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