Trump Lawyer Bobb: Jack Smith's New Indictment Empowers Trump Legal Team to Get J6 Answers
By Neil W. McCabe | 10:30 PM on August 04, 2023
The Marine JAG veteran and former senior Homeland Security officer working on President Donald J. Trump’s legal team tells RedState that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump revealed Aug. 1 is a surprisingly weak case against the former president.
“I don’t think anybody thinks Donald Trump believes he lost the election,” says Christina Bobb, the author of “Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024.”
Smith’s central legal thesis is that Trump knew that he lost the 2020 election and that his subsequent actions and statements were corrupt and criminal.
Bobb says Smith’s premise is absurd:
If Donald Trump believes and believed at that time that the election was stolen and that there was a plot to steal and rig the election as the president of the United States–he had a constitutional obligation to do exactly what he did, which is communicate with the states and make sure that the states are doing their part to protect their own.
“The only way that President Trump’s actions could potentially be perceived as some type of conspiracy would be if he believed that he lost and was trying to steal authority anyway,” Bobb said.
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