Prosecutors asked permission to file public version of brief with references to testimony from Trump’s closest aides
Donald Trump’s lawyers made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to limit the amount of evidence that could become public that special counsel prosecutors collected during their criminal investigation into the former US president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The prosecutors last week filed under seal a brief, which may be as long as 180 pages, to presiding US district judge Tanya Chutkan that defends the viability of the charges against Trump even after the US supreme court’s presidential immunity ruling.
Simultaneously, the prosecutors asked the judge to allow them to file a public version of the secret brief with quotations and references to grand jury testimony from some of Trump’s closest aides, such as his former chief of staff, and his former vice-president, Mike Pence.
Everyone knows he’s guilty. His supporters just don’t care that he did it.
His supporters are Conservatives. They believe that the law doesn’t apply to some people because inequality is ‘good’ and ‘natural’. And they also believe that inequality will be in their favour, even if they live precariously on or near the very bottom rung of society.
Conservatives are most often the people who would (and, increasingly, in a country which got rid of royalty, do) support something like the Divine Right of Kings to do what they want. “Because somebody has to be in charge,” they will say, while imagining the ‘wrong’ kind of people being rounded up.
Insert Wilhoit’s Law here.
The only problem is he failed.