An Insanity Plea For Donald Trump?
It could be his only reasonable defense.
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If this is the ‘defense’ at Trump’s forthcoming trial, I don’t envy the lawyers who agree to represent him.
They’d better be psychiatrists expert at reflexive projection and capable of getting their client to plead insanity.
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— Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School, in commentary tweeted in response to a video message published by Donald Trump, where the disgraced former president raged against the January 6 Committee’s final report, calling it a “monstrous lie.” He went on to call the committee members “very bad people,” while claiming that they “did not produce a single shred of evidence” that he “in any way intended or wanted violence at our Capitol.” The committee has referred Trump to the Department of Justice for prosecution on charges of conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to make false statements, obstruction of an official proceeding, and inciting an insurrection.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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