Page 218 - Statutes News Today

Through this process, albeit it was earlier, you had less information, you had to move very fast because an impeachment took place very soon after the insurrection. whats your sense of what is going on with jack smith, the target letter, the things we hear donald trump may be charged with? are you satisfied those of the right things, first of all? >> i would say first, clearly, a series of significant developments. it particularly the port a or the reporting of mr. trumps disclosure of the lette...

Learning the prosecutors are interviewing two more people connected to trump? >> right. a target letter says essentially we have a good reason to indict you on criminal charges. when that indictment follows, such a letter is not certain. i think that it is a likely portend there will be an indictment, am rachl i just dont know when. it looks like hes doing his final t-crossing and i-dotting. hell bring three potential statutes, obstruction, fraud, and destruction. we dont know what he has. >> an...

Count, were talking about him trying to defraud the government as it relates to false electors. it seems to me that fits there. and then you have the one charged i think people were surprised about, it is reference to the law that was designed back in the day to go after the ku klux klan when they were systematically trying to nullify reckons the rights under the constitution. in that count, you can look at what he was really trying to do, which is in fact deny the voters of this country, the ou...

Its worth noting that all the new charges against the former president are extremely likely, a target letter is not an indictment and if trump is indeed charged the counts could extend beyond the three statutes mentioned in the letter. >> chuck, what do you make of those three charges? those three possible charges? >> so first, to make a point that target letter is not an indictment but having been a prosecutor and sent out those letters you dont do that and unless you intend to indict. it means...

So im happy about that. unless start with the prosecutors. clear, im gonna come to you first. i want to talk about the potential charges that donald trump could face. we know that in the trump target letter that was sent to donald trump, there are three statutes that are cited. one is conspiracy to commit an offense and defraud. the other is conspiracy against rights. and the third is obstruction. clare, starting with you, what do you make of those potential charges and the fact that incitement ...

Government. they dont want people to know. they make things up, they have all of the so-called whistleblowers who again admit the trump justice department said there is nothing there. >> with us we have the host of way too early and white house -- what jonathan lemire member of the new york times editorial board margie, founder of the conservative website the bullhorn charlie sykes is with us. and former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg. chuck, ahead of a possible third and ...

It involves the sustained effort to spread dangerous lies about election fraud that persist to this day. plans are underway for fake electors with fake documents to disrupt official proceedings in multiple swing states, all in names of donald trump. there was even a pressure campaign to get elected officials like georgia secretary of state, a republican crap brad raffensperger, to find, in donald trumps words, enough votes to overturn -- nbc news has now also confirmed a story first reported by ...

Absolutely as well. and i want to pick up on the thing that clare said which is, we are talking here about federal charges, we are talking about what jack smith, the special counsel is going to bring on behalf of the united justice department. theres also a separate set of investigations going on in georgia and perhaps other states about trumps fraud around january 6th, the electors plot things like that. so you could see trump facing, for the same basic conduct, trials going on in georgia, the ...

Of speculation. one thing that jackson with can do with those statutes, particularly with 2:41, which i think clearly has no color of law requirement to it, is he can focus with those statutes on the intimidation act that trump engaged in. intimidating mike pence, the things he said and tweeted about pence, his intimidation of raffensperger, his intimidation of other state officials. of course, i also think those statutes, 2:41 in particular, have been used more generally with efforts to essenti...

About this statute and how it fits together with your memo. >> well, the memo that we wrote was an effort to take what you actually described as a lot of pretty complicated facts and present a path, one path. she wrote another memo year ago when she did something similar when we knew what we knew then. suing a path that is practical and concise and a way to go forward. the statutes that we identified were the ones that look to us like the ones that could be put together with a selective collecti...