Trump Urging Republicans to Shutdown the Government
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, now adds to his troubles being sued for more than $1 million by his own lawyers for failure to pay his legal bills. This development is on top on Giuliani: being an indicted RICO defendant/co-conspirator in Georgia; being an un-indicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Trump in Washington, DC; admitting to lying about and defaming Georgia state election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman; having his law license suspended in New York; being recommended for disbarment in DC; etc. Glenn wonders if Rudy ever asks himself if he should've chosen another path, given that the choices he's made thus far have landed him precisely where he is at this moment. Then, new reporting on Trump shows his latest incriminating statement, as reported by NBC News: "Trump demands Republicans shut down government to 'defund' his criminal prosecutions." Glenn says there are several problems with Trump's recent hair-brained scheme: first, law informants, including prosecutions, are considered "essential governmental functions" and are exempt from federal government shutdowns. Second, Trump's statements may actually constitute an attempt to obstruct justice. Third, even if not technically a violation of federal obstruction of justice laws, his statements are powerful and admissible consciousness of guilt evidence. Finally, Trump even throws in a little aid and comfort to the insurrections by urging Congressional Republicans to shut down the government to stop the prosecutions against him "and other patriots," an obvious reference to other January 6 defendants.
Trump has created and handed to prosecutors so much incriminating evidence that, once his criminal cases move into court proper, Trump is toast.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters, with former Federal Prosecutor and MSNBC analyst, Glenn Kertner. |
| 0:16.0 | Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is now being sued for more than a million dollars by his own attorney. |
| 0:22.0 | Glenn says this just adds fuel to the fire. |
| 0:26.6 | So friends, Mr. Truth isn't truth himself. Rudy Giuliani is now being sued by his own lawyers |
| 0:36.5 | for failing to pay nearly $1.4 million in legal fees. I mean, let's take a look at where Rudy Giuliani |
| 0:48.5 | is at this moment in time. First of all, he's an indicted rico defendant in the state of Georgia |
| 0:58.0 | for trying to criminally overturn the results of the presidential election down in Georgia |
| 1:04.6 | together with his co-conspirators, his criminal associates, like Donald Trump and Mark Meadows, |
| 1:11.6 | John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chisbro and others. He's also an unindicted |
| 1:19.6 | co-conspirator in a federal indictment in Washington, D.C. for his efforts to overturn the results |
| 1:28.0 | of the presidential election in its entirety to install Donald Trump unlawfully, unconstitutionally |
| 1:36.3 | for a second term. At the moment, he's an unindicted co-conspirator. He's one of six in that |
| 1:44.6 | indictment against Donald Trump that special counsel Jack Smith returned in federal court in |
| 1:51.1 | Washington, D.C. But let me tell you, I'm not much of a betting man. You may have heard me say |
| 1:57.2 | before, I'm not a high roller. One dollar is my betting limit. Well, I would put the whole |
| 2:02.8 | buck on Rudy Giuliani being indicted in the near future in federal court in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:12.0 | Why do I say that? Well, because the first indictment that Jack Smith had the grand jury hand down |
| 2:18.9 | in Washington, D.C. was only against Donald Trump and six unindicted co-conspirators. So what did we |
| 2:25.8 | learn from that indictment that Rudy Giuliani and five others were co-conspirators with Donald |
| 2:32.9 | Trump, criminal associates. They committed crimes. They are responsible for those same crimes that |
| 2:39.2 | Donald Trump is responsible for by virtue of them being co-conspirators. But Jack Smith, I think, |
| 2:46.7 | wanted to stay narrowly and laser focused on Donald Trump so he could get him to trial quickly. |
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