Donald J. Trump speaks during CPAC Texas 2022. (lev radin / Shutterstock.com)
The target letter from the special counsel’s office indicates Donald Trump is likely to be indicted under three federal statutes, one of which figures to be the most serious the former president has yet faced from a narrative perspective, a prominent legal expert said Wednesday.
Civil rights attorney and former prosecutor Charles Coleman Jr. said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” said the deprivation of rights under color of law is likely to resonate with the public in a way other charges against the former president have not.
“I'm very interested in this deprivation of rights under the color of law,” guest host Ali Velshi said, noting that “it's the one that those of us who get our law training from 'Law and Order' don't understand so well, what does that mean?"
“What it is basically saying is that you used your authority as the President of the United States to essentially deprive or undermine the American vote,” Coleman said.
“So every one of us has an opportunity to have our votes counted, to have our votes mean something, but by engaging in this process, and by doing so as the President at the time... you sought to undermine one of the most core fundamental principles of American democracy, which is you have a vote and our vote counts."
Coleman added:
“So from a narrative perspective, I think that it's probably one of the most serious charges that we've seen, because it above anything else it speaks to the very core about what we're talking about with Donald Trump's involvement with January 6, and not just the obstruction of the transfer of power, but again, trying to invalidate the vote of American people.”
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