On Tuesday evening, Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out that a one quotation from former vice-president Mike Pence stands out from the rest — enough so that it could convey down the thrice-indicted previous President down.
O’Donnell claimed that the “witness” mentioned in the indictment should be former Vice President Mike Pence. “You might be too honest,” Trump instructed the witness.
“The witness who spoke those text in the grand jury, in his testimony, is definitely Donald Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence,” the MSNBC host mentioned. “That is the only way that all those words could surface in quotation marks, on page 33 of modern indictment. “You are way too genuine.” Page 33 is made up of a description of, estimate, several private cellphone calls in late December 2020 and early January among the President and Vice President of the United States.”
“The only particular person who could maybe have advised Jack Smith and the grand jury about those mobile phone calls is Mike Pence,” he ongoing.
“Mike Pence did not just testify to Jack Smith’s grand jury,” he mentioned. “He turned the star witness, and he will be the star witness when the case that the United States of The united states versus Donald J. Trump is offered to a demo jury in Washington DC.”
“They will be the initially jurors in background to see a very first former Vice President of the United States raise his ideal hand and just take an oath, to notify the real truth, the total truth and very little but the truth of the matter about the prison defendant sitting down in front of the jury, the former president of the United States,” O’Donnell explained. “When the previous Vice President is underneath oath on the witness stand, testifying from the previous president, Mike Pence will provide the testimony that he of course shipped to the grand jury and is explained for the initially time in today’s indictment.”
“On December 25, when the Vice President identified as the defendant to issue a Merry Christmas, the defendant swiftly turned the discussion to January 6 in his request that the Vice President reject the electoral votes,” he ongoing. “The Vice President pushed back, telling the defendant, as the Vice President presently had in past discussions, you know, I never consider that I have the authority to improve the result.”
“Obviously, the quotation marks all-around that sentence indicate that Mike Pence gave those people words, precisely all those terms, to the grand jury under oath,” he mentioned. “And yet another private mobile phone simply call that only Mike Pence was a witness to, on December 29, the defendant falsely explained to the Vice President that the justice department was finding big infractions.”
That line, you happen to be as well genuine, will be the headline in that day’s protection of the demo. ‘You’re as well honest’ from Donald Trump to Mike Pence.
O’Donnell mentioned that that line would “confirm further than sensible doubt that Donald Trump realized that he was lying about Mike Pence’s electricity to overturn the election.”
He explained, “Jack Smith believes that he can prove over and above sensible question that Donald Trump realized that every thing he was declaring about the election in December and January was a lie.”
“But if Donald Trump receives on a witness stand,” he explained, introducing, “He will lie beneath oath, he will depart the witness stand and commit far more crimes on the witness stand, so now, no professional legal observers be expecting Donald Trump to testify in his own defense at any of his trials.”
“The indictment of Donald Trump responsible for undertaking practically nothing to end the attack on the Capitol although it was likely on, and the indictment describes Donald Trump and his coconspirators, which includes Rudy Giuliani, continuing to commit crimes just after the assault on the Capitol.”
I doubt that Pence will like currently being the witness who brings down Trump. He is aware what his supporters are capable of. But which is what occurs when you tie oneself to the most harmful determine in new historical past.
