Turley and McCarthy weigh in...
Turley...
McCarthy...
So this goes beyond Trump. The Democrats and their toadies in the unelected bureaucracy are attempting to criminalize speech they deem unacceptable.
Turley...
Another Weissmann. Another Comey. Another tool of the Democrat regime.Quote:
"[url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-special-counsel-dueling-grand-juries-questions-dont-want-try-him-florida][Smith] may be stretching[/url] the law a bit, so that's why we're going to be looking at things like witness tampering to see how much new evidence he has," Turley said. "You'll notice that not being discussed in all of this is a conspiracy for incitement [or] seditious conspiracy."
He noted those two claims were paramount in Rep. Adam Schiff's, D-Calif., second impeachment proceedings against Trump.
"Those were the claims that Democrats said were lead pipe cinches, where the evidence was absolutely clear," he said. "They do not appear thus far to be in this indictment, but we'll have to see."
"Jack Smith has a reputation for stretching criminal statutes beyond the breaking point. He went after [former Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell] and secured a conviction there. He was unanimously overturned because he just stretched the law too far."
McCarthy...
Quote:
McCarthy referenced how some Trump acolytes pressed him on the theory, which could be connected to the conspiracy count in the indictment, but suggested that no matter how "frivolous," such machinations are likely protected speech.
"I think it's even beyond that. I think there you get into this whole idea of criminalizing a frivolous legal theory," McCarthy said, naming Trump-friendly attorney John Eastman, who forwarded the electoral slate theory.
Eastman reportedly pressed for certain states to appoint "alternate" elector slates that would help resolve disputed slates presented to Pence as president of the Senate at the time of the January 6 tally.
"Eastman's theory may have been a bad one. I think it was a bad one, but it was something that he was allowed to rely on," McCarthy said.
"And generally speaking, in this country, what we do with frivolous legal theories is we figure that the jury system will take care of it or the political system will. We don't criminalize them. And that's what this indictment attempts to do."
McCarthy also said that connecting Trump to incitement, as Smith reportedly does, would be "low rent stuff that prosecutors are not supposed to do."
So this goes beyond Trump. The Democrats and their toadies in the unelected bureaucracy are attempting to criminalize speech they deem unacceptable.
