Lunatic Trump Wanted To Trademark The Phrase 'RIGGED ELECTION!'

According to even more material released by the January 6th Committee, Donald Trump had one of his top aides, Dan Scavino, reach out to Jared Kushner about trademarking the phrase "rigged election." This is just further proof that the whole thing was a grift from the start, and that could actually come back to bite Trump if he faces criminal charges for anything related to the actions to overturn the election. Farron Cousins explains how that could happen.

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We continue to get more and more information out of the January 6th select committee as they continue this, I guess you would call it slow drip of information, the transcripts they're releasing, the emails they're releasing, and all of it makes Donald Trump look like a fool, and some of it even has the potential to destroy any legal defense he may try to use in court if he does end up criminally charged. And one of those pieces of information that could seriously hurt his defense is an email sent from his former aide, Dan Scavino, to Jared Kushner, telling Jared that Donald wanted to trademark the phrase rigged election. Donald Trump. I'll say it again, wanted to trademark the phrase rigged election in the time, of course, between the November, 2020 election and when Donald Trump left office on January 20th, 2021, he wanted to profit off of people using his phrase rigged election.

Of course, we all know the election wasn't rigged, but Trump said it a lot. So the media was saying a lot and he wanted to get his share of that, right. If you're gonna use my talking points, you're gonna pay me some money for it. Now, of course, that ultimately didn't end up happening, thank God. But the fact that Donald Trump wanted to do it kind of shows that this whole thing was pretty much a grift from the start. That it was all the way for Donald Trump to basically make more money. We already know that he was fundraising off of his election lies, right? That's a given. He was going out there sending these emails saying, you gotta give me money so I can fight these things in court. Then he ultimately ended up spending $0 of what he raised off that to actually fight these in court.

It was all about making money, and that's why I say this could seriously hinder any legal defense he may try to use if he gets criminally charged. Here's why that is. This is something that, you know, I've been talking about, the legal experts have been saying for a very long time, the only possible legal defense Donald Trump could have, and we're not even saying it would work. It's just the only thing that might work is if Trump were to get charged with, you know, trying to defraud the United States by overturning the election, claiming all of this fraud that didn't exist. The only way he could have a decent defense is if he's able to prove that he genuinely believed it. Now that in the eyes of the law could not wood, but could make his actions seem legitimate. This new piece of information here showing that he wanted to trademark that phrase and make money off of it, is going to kill

That because suddenly this turns from being a rational legal attempt to overturn the election results to a money-making operation. So you go out there, you put these talking points in the ether, you get your base all riled up, you start raising money through the fundraising arm of it. Then you try to profit off of it by suggesting you trade market. This is no longer a legal presidential action to see if maybe there were some fraud out there. It's a massive money making scheme. So if he were to go into court and try to argue that I genuinely believe these things, the prosecutor's gonna be able to be like, no, you didn't. First of all, we've got all of these witnesses over here that have talked to the January 6th committee that say you knew you lost. Second of all, if you were so worried about all of this so-called shenanigans taking place with the election, then why were you more concerned about profiting off of it?

It seems the profit motive was the real driving factor here, not uncovering results that could end up putting you back in the White House. As I said, a good prosecutor's gonna be able to take that and run with it in a way that, you know, I did a poor job of explaining they'd be able to do it far more eloquently. But basically that's what would happen. So this isn't just a funny story of Donald Trump trying to trademark a stupid phrase that was completely false. This could be the nail in the coffin for any legal defense Donald Trump tries to put up.