Trump Lawyer Panics And Admits He Fabricated Entire Legal Defense

It may not be the biggest trial that Donald Trump is going through, but he is still on trial in Colorado to see if he is even eligible to be on the ballot or if the 14th Amendment prevents him from running. And things are shockingly not going well for him. During a hearing this week, his lawyer was forced to admit that he completely made up the legal defense that he is using by applying his own rules to the definition of "insurrection," and he nearly got laughed out of court. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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You know, I'm always shocked by Donald Trump's lawyers, and not in a good way. Um, because every time, as I say, they're in the news, it's because they've done something very stupid, right? You never see a headline that says Trump lawyer absolutely nails it in court, sticks it to the pro. No. It's like, uh, oh, Trump lawyer, you know, crap, their pants in the middle of the courtroom. Um, it hasn't gotten to that yet, yet. I mean, at this point, anything's possible. But this week, something happened with one of Donald Trump's lesser known lawyers, who is actually working in front of the Colorado State Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's decision that did say that, yep. Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection. Now, what's funny about this to me is that this case in Colorado, and I'll get to the stupid thing the lawyer said in a minute, but I gotta set it up for you.

This case in Colorado, right, was the 14th Amendment Challenge, saying that because Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection or supported an insurrection, he should be barred from running for office ever again. Now, the lower court said, yes, I do find that Donald Trump engaged in this behavior. However, I'm not going to remove him from the ballot because I do not believe the 14th Amendment applies to Donald Trump. Okay? So Trump's lawyers should have at that point just been like, great, we're done. We won. All right, see you later. No, these idiots appealed it and they get more legal fees that way 'cause they're still working on the case. Instead of it being done, by the way, Donald, maybe keep, uh, a close eye on that 'cause you're kind of getting milked here. Um, so anyway, they appealed it because they wanted the high court, the Colorado State Supreme Court to strike down the part where they said he did engage in an insurrection, because that can come back to bite him, but you didn't have to do it.

So anyway, this week, Donald Trump's attor attorney, uh, was it Scott Gessler, goes in front of the state Supreme Court and he says, listen, I know that lower court said that my guy here, uh, Trump's not there, but my guy engaged in an insurrection. But I gotta tell you that that's not true because the insurrection only lasted three hours. And for a real insurrection, you gotta, it's, it's gotta be bigger than three hours, right? I mean, we gotta run the clock here. Three hours is not enough time for an insurrection. So you have to strike down that part of the lower court's ruling. And I wish I was making that up, but let me read you the exchange between Trump's attorney, Gessler, and the justices on the bench, he said, quote, it has to be for a substantial duration, not three hours. At which point the justices were a little confused, right? They're like, Hey, we're looking at the definition, you know, in, in the Encyclopedia Britannica here. And it

Doesn't, it, it doesn't have a timeframe on it. Like an insurrection could be five minutes, it could be three hours, it could be three years. Um, what, what are you doing here? So they ask, one of the Supreme Court justices asked Trump's lawyer, where is all that coming from? You've added a whole lot of conditions there. And it was at that point that Trump's lawyer, I guess, kind of had a moment of panic, like, oh crap. Like now I have to tell them where I got it. And he responded. We're all sort of making it up. At the end of the day, you told the Colorado State Supreme Court that an insurrection has to be an event that lasts longer than three hours. By your definition, they're looking at the real definition in the books and like, where, where, where'd that come from? Like, what, what page are you on? And he is like, oh, I made it up. I just top of my head just write down, just came up with it. That's pretty cool, huh? I mean, we can do that, um, in court is just make stuff up, make up legal definitions to, to fit our agenda, right? I mean, that's, that's what we do as lawyers.