Special counsel Jack Smith took a meeting with attorneys representing former President Donald Trump earlier this year and reportedly sat in stone-cold silence while they pleaded with him not to indict their client.

Politico reports that ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl’s new book on Trump’s post-presidential life claims that Trump lawyers Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro met with Smith’s team over the summer and gave them a list of reasons why charging Trump with crimes related to his efforts to illegally remain in power would be a mistake.

According to Karl, Smith sat through through the presentation without saying a word.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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    It actually would be really fucked up if it could as most minorities wouldn’t be able to hold elected office, and those felonies are often extremely arbitrary ones put in place by racist jurisdictions with the explicit purpose of denying minorities their right to vote.

    The fact that you can lose respect for any of your constitutional rights as a consequence of a court proceeding should terrify everyone.

    There are better ways to deal with fascists.

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      1 year ago

      you really think that most minorities are felons?

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        1 year ago

        No, the system makes them that way by design. The system disproportionately convicts minorities with the express purpose of denying them their right to vote. They’re made felons to subjugate them.