Trump lawyer speaks out on DC arraignment He is under siege
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00:00 On March 17th, Hunter accidentally admits that it was his laptop from hell.
00:06 The next day, DA Alvin Bragg indicts President Trump.
00:12 June 8th, an FBI document is released showing that the Ukrainians paid the Biden crime family
00:19 millions and millions of dollars.
00:22 The next day, the Mar-a-Lago raid and the Mar-a-Lago indictment.
00:28 Last week, Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal fell through when the judge realized
00:34 it had blanket immunity.
00:37 The following day, a superseding indictment against Donald Trump.
00:44 July 31st, Devin Archer goes to testify in front of the House.
00:50 That was only after they failed to put him in jail prior to the fact.
00:56 What happens the next day?
00:58 The January 6th indictment that we're here for today.
01:02 This is not a coincidence.
01:04 This is election interference at its finest against the leading candidate right now for
01:10 president, for either party.
01:14 President Trump is under siege in a way that we have never seen before.
01:19 President Trump and his legal team and everyone on his team will continue to fight, not for
01:26 him but for the American people.
01:29 I'll take some questions.
01:30 Thank you.
01:31 I know the president has called this a witch hunt.
01:35 You just laid out several examples of that.
01:38 Any other thoughts that the president has communicated to you in terms of why this is
01:42 going on and why he calls it a witch hunt?
01:45 I think a witch hunt is really the way that anybody should describe this because it's
01:49 not something we've seen in our time.
01:52 This is not even political.
01:54 This is beyond that.
01:55 A witch hunt is when you relentlessly attack your opponent, when you relentlessly attack
01:59 the thing that you are most afraid of.
02:01 People are afraid of somebody that cannot be bought by Washington.
02:05 People are afraid of somebody who is independently wealthy and who has given up his good life
02:10 to fight for this country.
02:12 That frightens a lot of politicians who are career politicians, unfortunately, because
02:16 he'll get back there and I know he'll be fighting for every one of us so that this doesn't
02:19 happen to us.
02:20 You've seen the cases about free speech, but the special counsel says Trump could have
02:24 disagreed with the results and talked about it.
02:26 No crime there.
02:27 The difference is what he did to try and switch the votes.
02:31 So what is it that he did to try and switch the votes that you refer to?
02:36 By bringing cases?
02:38 By using the law in an appropriate manner, unlike what we're sitting here today seeing?
02:42 This is not appropriate.
02:43 What President Trump did is he said, "Go patriotically and peacefully and protest."
02:49 That is an American right.
02:50 That is why we are America and we are not a third world country, although I will say
02:53 that today, I don't feel very much like we are in America.
02:56 Yes.
02:57 In this case, should you go forward before or after the 2024 presidential election?
03:00 I think that every court needs to look at this as a whole, right?
03:03 It's not about the January 6th case.
03:05 It's about the fact that in the matter of a couple months, we have seen them try and
03:09 tie up, and me as an attorney, I've never seen this, tie up one individual who's running
03:14 a campaign in a campaign, running for office for president, so that he is in court, in
03:19 depositions, and distracted, so that he won't properly run for 2024.
03:23 And frankly, it's not going to work.
03:25 Is the legal team going to argue that the election was stolen?
03:29 I don't think that that's the argument that needs to be made.
03:32 I think that anybody that believes that is misreading this.
03:35 The truth is, as an American, there were questions that he had regarding the election integrity.
03:41 We've seen documents come out.
03:42 We've seen documentaries come out showing that there were issues with the election.
03:46 And he, and frankly, bringing this, I don't think Jack Smith really thought it through.
03:51 There only has to be proof that number one, President Trump believed that this election
03:55 was not completely honest.
03:57 And number two, Jack Smith has opened himself up to a can of worms that we can now look
04:01 at and really examine.
04:03 You believe that he's innocent and that this is all a setup.
04:05 Why not bring it to trial as soon as possible before the election so that you can clear
04:09 his name?
04:10 Yeah, I would love to do that.
04:11 But there's something called discovery.
04:12 And when somebody wants to say that a 2020 election was perfect and that President Trump
04:16 has no right to object to it, we've got to go show them all the facts.
04:19 And there's a lot of facts to show.
04:21 So everybody has their time.
04:23 And to say that Donald Trump should then be rushed and not be given the same fair proceeding
04:27 that anybody else is, is just frankly un-American.
04:29 It's not fair.
04:30 It's not the way our system works.
04:31 A lot of the lawyers who helped him try to overturn the election are unnamed co-conspirators
04:38 in the indictment.
04:40 Jenna Ellis isn't.
04:42 Why do you think that is?
04:44 I'm not going to speak to co-conspirators or anybody else.
04:46 I represent President Trump.
04:48 Let's go one more.
04:50 There are a number of, there's testimony and there's a number of aides that have said that
04:53 the president was made aware that he lost the election and yet continued to argue that
04:58 it was stolen from him.
05:00 How do you reconcile those two things?
05:01 Well, I think that everybody was made aware that he lost the election, but that doesn't
05:06 mean that that was the only advice he was given.
05:08 As anybody understands what happens in the Oval Office, there are a numerous amount of
05:11 advisors and politicians and lawyers, not just one or two, that are giving you advice
05:16 and telling you what they believe is true.
05:18 So he may not agree with Mike Pence.
05:20 He may not agree with one of his lawyers, but that doesn't mean that there weren't other
05:23 people advising him exactly the opposite.
05:26 And the president has a right, as every one of us do, to listen to several opinions and
05:30 make their decision.
05:31 I remember hearing Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams argue their elections were not right.
05:38 I mean, the weaponization of the DOJ didn't happen then.
05:42 No, of course not.
05:43 But if your last name's Trump, it's very different.
05:45 So Hillary Clinton could have a problem when she lost the election and we could have a
05:48 complete liberal meltdown, as we all saw.
05:50 But when we have dignified disagreements, we take them to court.
05:53 We say, do things patriotically and peacefully.
05:56 He's to blame for things that he did not himself do.
05:58 And that's what we're seeing.
05:59 Frankly, folks, this is not about that.
06:01 This is about politics.
06:02 This is about 2024.
06:03 Period.
06:04 The end.
06:05 Thank you.
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