Legal Expert Predicts Special Prosecutor Will Hit Trump And Friends With Conspiracy Charges 
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Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has made a lot of moves recently that could suggest he's heading towards charging Donald Trump and a lot of his friends with conspiracy to overthrow the US government. That's the opinion of renowned Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe, who said that the recent activity by the DOJ in Georgia and the movements they are making in other areas suggest conspiracy is going to be the big one. Farron Cousins explains what that means. Link - https://www.alternet.org/trump-doj-26...
Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected! Connect with Farron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced *This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. According to multiple legal scholars, it appears that an indictment against Donald Trump. Another, another indictment, uh, is almost imminent at this point. And according to Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Lawrence Tribe, who also is a major legal expert, widely respected, he believes that the charges against Donald Trump, from Jack Smith could be related to conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. Now that would be a big one, obviously, but here's why Tribe thinks that it was revealed this week that special prosecutor Jack Smith, was heading down to Georgia to talk to Secretary of State Brad Raff. That conversation happened on Wednesday yesterday, and Raff, of course, is the Secretary of State that Donald Trump made the infamous phone call to saying, go find the votes. So why would Jack Smith need that testimony? Why would he be approaching Raff Ensberg in this investigation, if not, other than to prove that Donald Trump was attempting to overthrow the election results of the 2020 election. Beyond that, Raff Asperger is not involved in any of this. He wasn't involved in the Capitol Riot, he wasn't involved in the fake elector scheme as far as we know. This was just a guy who got a phone call from Donald Trump and quickly dismissed it. But if they're building a case to prove that Trump was trying to overthrow the incoming government of the United States, cuz obviously at the time Trump was the government and that's where things get a little murky, legal speaking. But uh, uh, this definitely does seem like he's building the case for conspiracy. Now, it could be conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States, which is what tribe suggests it could be, or it could be conspiracy to defraud, defraud the United States. Big distinction between the two. But let me, before I get into the distinction, let me just continue on a little more. In addition to talking to Raff Asperger, we also learned this week that Rudy Giuliani recently went and sat voluntarily, according to Giuliani's people, to talk to Jack Smith's grand jury. And, uh, Giuliani was pretty much the guy working with the states to come up with the fake electors. So that also seems to be pointing towards conspiracy. Now, the distinction between the two charges. So I get back to that. We also learned, by the way, you had, uh, multiple Secret service agents that have cooperated with the grand jury. Those are the people around Trump all the time. So They would've heard things, seen things. Their testimony is important, but the distinction between the two possible charges, cuz I have always suggested, and again, I got nothing on Lauren's tribe in terms of credentials, uh, legally speaking. So he's way better than me, way smarter than me. But I've always said that conspiracy to defraud the United States would be the most likely path. But if it is in fact what tribe is suggesting in its conspiracy to overturn the government of the United States, that would likely under the 14th Amendment Barr Donald Trump from ever holding a public office again. So that would be a better charge. If you can get 'em on that, like a hundred percent do that. The problem I see, the way I see it and, and based of course on the way our court system is stacked with conservatives, is they're gonna argue you can't overthrow a government that doesn't technically exist. Because while these plans were playing out, right, while Donald Trump was engaged in this alleged conspiracy, president Biden wasn't President Biden, there was no Biden administration. They had not been sworn in. So legally speaking, can you launch a coup against a government that doesn't technically exist yet. That's where the legal problems are gonna come in, especially with the way our court system, again, is skewed way to the right Supreme Court, six to three to the right. So I think if you did go with those charges, I think conservative courts are gonna, you know, go the other way on that and let Donald Trump off conspiracy to defraud the United States, however, which would not bar Trump from running for office again.
