Laurence Tribe: Donald Trump Attempted to Murder Vice President Pence

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Laurence Tribe: Donald Trump Attempted to Murder Vice President Pence

Pam Key 16 Jun 2022

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe said Thursday on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” that former President Donald Trump attempted to murder Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021.

Burnett asked, “From everything you have seen so far, including the hearing today that focused so much on Trump causing violence against Pence, do you believe the committee has proven that Trump himself knowingly committed crimes?”

Tribe said, “Without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious. The most obvious was that he was ordering his vice-president to do what everyone in the room knew would be illegal, namely, exercise power to pick the next president. It would be very convenient if Al Gore could have picked himself as the next president in 2000, very convenient if Richard Nixon could have done it in 1960.”

He continued, “Ordering your vice-president to violate the law in order to stay in power is a very serious federal crime, but there are other crimes as well. One that occurred to several people today is attempted murder. You know, under the criminal code of the United States, the attempted murder of the vice-president is punishable by life imprisonment. What we saw with the president egging the crowd on, telling them that, basically, his own vice-president was a traitor while he knew that the mob had gallows waiting for him, that’s pretty serious stuff. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”

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[Kamaji]

Hmmm, let's apply that rule even-handedly, shall we?  First thing we do, we arrest Chuckles Schumer for being a co-conspirator for the attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh.

[mountaineer]

These people are certifiable.

[Right_in_Virginia]

These people are certifiable.

They are not.

They know they're lying .....and that they can do so with impunity.

[Hoodat]

This is the same Laurence Tribe who in 2016 actively tried to pressure Donald Trump electors into violating their oaths by casting their electoral college votes away from Trump.  Let that sink in.  Laurence Tribe tried to overthrow the 2016 election results.

[The_Reader_David]

They are not.

They know they're lying .....and that they can do so with impunity.

Indeed.  In Russian there is a word (I forget what it is) which means, "I'm lying, you know I'm lying, I know that you know that I'm lying, but you're going to act like you believe me anyway." 

We should probably find it and start using an English transliteration (maybe slightly modified to make it easier to pronounce) with the same meaning.

[mountaineer]

Indeed.  In Russian there is a word (I forget what it is)

Vranyo.

"You could say vranyo means “lies,” but in his 1983 book, Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams, published at the waning of the Cold War, … David Shipler, the longtime Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, gave a more nuanced explanation of vranyo. He wrote: A Russian friend explained vranyo this way: ‘You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.’” — Liesl Schillinger in ForeignPolicy.com, Feb 2018 More at glossophilia

[RetBobbyMI]

They are not.

They know they're lying .....and that they can do so with impunity.

Maybe that impunity ought to be put to the test…sue the pants off of him for malicious slander.