Trump's Only Hope Might Be Insanity Defense In Criminal Trials

Donald Trump's cognitive abilities aren't exactly the best out there, and he's got enough crazy statements out there on the record to build a solid case for an insanity defense at his criminal trials. But could he ever bring himself to actually make this admission in court, or would his ego get in the way of a potential legal defense, even if it keeps him out of prison? Farron Cousins discusses these possibilities.

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Trump is running out of options for what he is going to try to argue in front of. Really any of the judges overseeing his very many criminal trials. You know, we've, we've heard that he wants to blame advice of counsel in some cases, basically saying like, Hey, my incompetent lawyers told me I could do this, so I did it. So it's their fault, not mine. We have heard in some cases that he just wants to throw everybody else under the bus like, Hey, I didn't do the illegal activity. That was Sidney Powell. That is actually what has been kind of announced he is going to do in the state of Georgia. Um, he's also of course, argued in Judge Chut, Ken's case that she is overseeing against him. He said, Hey, I've got immunity because I was president and therefore I could just do whatever the hell I want. Because that's the presidential immunity thing. So he's tried a lot of things. He's got a lot of things he's gonna try, but none of them are gonna work. And that leads us to the very last question of this session of our q and as. It comes from a YouTube community member, Brenda Scheller 3 1 3 1, who asks, can Trump just fall back on an ignorance and possible instability defense, uh, defense against his charges?

I think he's gonna try the ignorance thing to a degree. I think that actually falls under the category of advice of counsel. So he's gonna say that, Hey, look, I I didn't know, these are the lawyers. They studied law. They know law. So they tell me what I legally can and cannot do because I don't know, I'm, I'm just a dude, I'm a businessman. I sell houses and furniture. I don't know what he sells. Uh, properties, sorry, lost the word. Um, so he is gonna say like, I don't know anything about it. They told me I could, I did it. Ah, oh no. Yeah, I'm just a stupid guy. So the advice of council thing is a bit of an ignorance defense. Would Donald Trump ever claim the instability? You know, go for the insanity defense? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He has spent too much time in recent weeks trying to paint himself as the only mentally competent individual running for president.

There is no way, even if his lawyers told him, you're gonna be convicted and sentenced to the full 712 years that you're facing, you're gonna spend 700, 12 years in jail when hundred percent we know it, we're gonna lose this case. But if you plead insanity, you'll get away with all of it. I don't think Trump would do it, because admitting that in court, by the way, and not admitting that in court doesn't guarantee that, oh, the charges are dropped. It just means that you're gonna go to a mental health facility instead of a prison. Um, in some cases you actually do still end up going to prison. But the blow to his ego, if he were to have to admit that and basically tell his millions of supporters out

Out there, Hey, I'm kind of nutty. Uh, he wouldn't do it. He would rather rot in a prison cell for 700 years. Not that he's gonna live that long, nobody will, but he would rather rot in a prison cell than have to even pretend to be mentally incompetent. Now, if his lawyers wanted to make that argument without him, which they legally can't do, but I think based on his statements, based on the way he behaves and acts and all that, I, I think they'd have a good case for it. Right? Like I, you can't convince me that Trump is mentally competent. So I'm already on board with them if they want to say he's mentally incompetent, but they can't do it without his permission, so it's not gonna happen. But ignorance, oh, 100%. That is pretty much what all of his arguments are based on. Anyway.