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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => January 6th => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 15, 2022, 01:31:57 pm
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Jan. 6 panel offers ‘closing argument’ to DOJ on possible Trump prosecution
by Rebecca Beitsch - 10/15/22 5:57 AM ET
The likely final hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack had a secondary audience in mind when it laid out evidence of former President Trump’s state of mind leading up to the Capitol attack: the Department of Justice capable of charging him.
Three phrases were echoed over and over again on Thursday by the panel’s nine members, who repeatedly mentioned Trump’s motivation, intent or state of mind — a callout to elements prosecutors would need to demonstrate if they choose to pursue charges against Trump.
“I think they were trying to hand the Justice Department all the evidence on a silver platter,” said Ryan Goodman, co-director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.
“I do think that it’s very significant information for a Justice Department with much more powerful tools to pursue a full-blown investigation. I do think that they did a very good job of handing that off, and, in a certain sense, showing what a closing argument can look like in a powerful way.”
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https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3688992-jan-6-panel-offers-closing-argument-to-doj-on-possible-trump-prosecution/
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Ryan Goodman, co-director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.
You’d think this big shot co-director of the fancy pants Reiss Center on Law and Security would take notice of the unjust nature of these scripted hearings that were lacking even the tiniest bit of exculpatory evidence or testimony presented.
A more accurate description of the partisan January 6 political infomercial would be ‘show trial’.
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https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1580956077096861697