Top Republican politicians and prominent conservative media outlets and personalities rallied behind Donald Trump after special counsel Jack Smith announced on Tuesday evening that he was bringing new charges against the former president for his involvement in the violent riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
to the United States from The Hague by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Smith has pursued his investigation of Trump methodically and, except for two news conferences, out of the public eye.related to his handling of classified documentsFox News host Jesse Watters, who took over Tucker Carlson’s coveted primetime slot, opened his show by lashing out at Smith, who he said “looked like a bedraggled nervous wreck, dripping with anger and highly emotional.
Conservatives reacted sharply to Smith’s Tuesday press conference, during which he announced that a Washington, D.C., grand jury had moved to indict Trump for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Those attempts were “fueled by lies,” he said.said Andrew McCarthyRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., one of Trump’s top supporters in Washington, said that she was moving to impeach Garland.
Across conservative media, legal commentators argued that Trump was merely exercising his First Amendment rights by arguing that he had won the election — even if that argument was false., which acknowledges that Trump"had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won.
Trump's supporters claim that even those lies pass constitutional muster."If you take a red pen to all of the material presumptively protected by the First Amendment, you can reduce much of the indictment to haiku,"Read more on Yahoo News:Aside from the charges filed by Smith, Trump has been charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for alleged improper payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s defenders paint the prosecutors’ actions as part of a sweeping effort to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign.Read more on Yahoo News:
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