Trump's Lawyer Accidentally Admits He May Be Guilty Of Insurrection

Donald Trump's legal team keeps putting their feet in their mouths, and this time it was Christina Bobb during an interview where she was trying to defend her client. But instead of offering up a valid legal defense, Bobb decided to say that Trump should be kept on the ballot even if he DID engage in an insurrection. That's not the stellar defense that she thinks it is, as Farron Cousins explains.

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The thing I love most about Donald Trump's lawyers is that every week one of these lawyers, outdoes a previous lawyer, sometimes even themselves, in saying some of the dumbest things you've ever heard a lawyer say in the history of the United States This week, of course, that distinction goes to Christina Bob. Christina Bob went on real America's voice this week and accidentally may have implied that Donald Trump could be in fact guilty of an insurrection. But she says, that's up for the voters to decide, not the courts. I'm gonna read you her quote in a minute. Actually, let me just get it outta the way. Here is what Christina, Bob said On real America's voice, the president is elected by the entire nation, and it should be the entire nation who determines who they want for president, whether they're guilty of insurrection or not. It's up to the people, whether they're guilty of insurrection or not, right?

What's the little insurrection between voters and politicians, right? Um, so what she is implying, as I said, one is that, hey, maybe he did it, maybe he didn't. What am I the guy's lawyer? Yeah, you are. You are supposed to be out there saying, no, he didn't do it. I don't care if you're not representing him in this specific, uh, you know, legal area as one of his other lawyers. You still have to be like, no, he didn't do it. He did not do what they say he did. Instead, you're like, maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Ah, it's not for me to decide. It's also, as she says, not necessarily for the courts to decide. Now, she didn't say it, but she implied it by saying it's for the voters to decide. No, actually, Christina, as somebody who went to law school, who passed the bar, who has, I'm assuming tried cases, you actually should understand that no, this, this is literally something for the courts to decide.

It is in the United States Constitution, section three, article 14. I'm sure everybody knows that by heart, by now. That's literally for the law to decide not the voters. Here's why this clause was added to the United States Constitution, right? Obviously it happened after the Civil War when we did have the country break apart into two separate countries for a bit. Uh, and they put that amendment in there along with several others, obviously, because they knew they had to bar these people from holding office, not because they thought, oh, don't worry, the voters are gonna take care of them. In fact, it was the opposite. They knew that these people from these southern states who did engage in insurrection by pulling out of the country and then waging war against it, that those people in those states still agreed with those politicians that would be running for office in the future. And we don't want those people

Running for office. We cannot trust the voters to make these decisions. So we have to put it in the law, in the constitution itself to prevent that from happening. The voters were not trusted in the 1860s, and the voters should not be trusted in the 2020s, you know, 160 some odd years later, actually a little under 160, whatever. Uh, it's the same situation. We have Ill-informed voters. We have voters with ill intent who will put somebody up, even if they came out and said, I engaged in an insurrection and I'll do it again. There's millions of people in this country who would say, yes, I will put that person in office. The 14th Amendment section three protects us from that, Christina. So, no, it's not up for the voters to decide. It was put in our constitution itself because the voters could not be trusted. But thanks again for not necessarily denying that Trump engaged in an insurrection just simply saying, maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Let's let the idiot voters decide. No, we took care of that over a century ago because voters cannot be trusted to make smart decisions.