The words that can get Trump to the Supreme Court – VG

For more than an hour, Donald Trump hammered his well-known message in front of his followers on January 6. At the same time, the ceremonial recount and approval of electoral votes was taking place in Congress.

Trump reiterated several unsubstantiated allegations about the presidential election, pushed Vice President Mike Pence further to “do the right thing” and said “very different rules” can be followed to “scam someone.”

He also said that “his country is not recovering with weakness”, but with strength.

He concluded by saying, “Let’s go down Pennsylvania Avenue,” against Congress.

Then a large crowd of Trump supporters marched into the Congress building, stormed the barricades and entered the building. A total of five people have died after the violence that broke out.

In a video on Twitter, while the chaos still continued, Trump asked his followers to go home.

Only the next day he published a video in which he acknowledged for the first time that he would not run for president for a second term, and in which he described the takeover of Congress as an “atrocious attack.”

That was not enough to stop the critics. The Supreme Court draft of the Democrats has already been signed by 180 members of Congress.

According to the BBC, Trump is accused of making statements in his speech that resulted in the assault on the Congress building.

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Norwegian teacher: – Very unclear.

American expert and professor Jennifer Leigh Bailey from NTNU’s Department of Sociology and Political Science has carefully reviewed Donald Trump’s speech on January 6.

– It does not say that supporters should do anything violent against Congress itself. He says they will claim his right and march against him. He also says, among other things, that they should make it peaceful and patriotic, so that their voices are heard, he says.

But it’s important to watch the connection, you think.

– Donald Trump emphasizes that there have been cheats in the election, that he has been robbed and that everything is a conspiracy. Repeat what you have said so many times. When you put this together, it is at least clear to me that he gets the crowd excited with the actions that follow, she says.

Trump insisted that the election had been stolen.

– All of us here today don’t want to see our election winner stolen by radical leftist radical Democrats, which is what they do, and stolen by fake news outlets … We will never give up. We will never admit it, it doesn’t happen. He doesn’t admit when a robbery is involved … To use a favorite expression that actually occurred to him: We want to stop the robbery, he said.

Does the speech stand as evidence?

The question is whether the speech stands up as evidence in a possible Supreme Court case.

– Supreme Court is not the same as a legal trial, and there is a discussion about the level of evidence. There’s also a lot of debate about the legal / political line in superior court cases, says Bailey.

Donald Trump was acquitted in a Supreme Court case on February 5, 2020.

Have you seen this one? The mob inside the congress building:

Bailey says that the Democrats’ draft does not draw much of the argument from Trump’s speech on Wednesday, Jan.6.

– But includes Trump’s claim that the victory was overwhelming in the election. They also believe that he purposely stated in such a way that it was completely predictable that it would lead to illegal actions, he says.

– So we will go down Pennsylvania Avenue … we will go to the convention building and we will try to give … to our Republicans – the weak – because the strong do not need our help, we will try to give them the feeling of pride and boldness as they need to recover our country, Trump said before Congress stormed.

Democrats also use the phone call Trump made to election official Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. It was later revealed that Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find votes” so that the outcome of the election could be changed.

In the data box, you can see more statements from Trump’s speech:

However, it is uncertain whether there will be a case in the Supreme Court, Bailey believes.

– Congress must agree to abandon the usual procedures, there is no time for them. There will likely be a majority in the House of Representatives, but then the question will be what happens in the Senate. Georgia’s new senators are not certified, and a two-thirds majority is required here, he says, adding:

– It will require a lot more backbone from Republicans than we’ve seen so far and is therefore dubious with a majority here.

Rhetoric Trygve Svensson in the think tank Agenda warns against “Trumpism”:

You must have started thinking about defense teams.

According to the ABC and CNN channels, Trump has begun to think about who he wants to defend himself in a possible case before a higher court. According to the channel, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is up to date, and so is Alan Dershowitz. The latter was part of Trump’s defense team during the previous Supreme Court case.

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The most powerful Republican politician in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, warned Friday against a lawsuit against Trump. He says it will only further divide the country, writes NTB.

Incoming US President Joe Biden indicated Friday that he also does not support a new Supreme Court case against Donald Trump.

– The fastest way to get rid of Trump as president is to be installed on January 20. What happens sooner or later, Congress must decide. But what I hope is that Trump leaves office, Biden said.

– It was not a coup attempt

Erik Mustad, a senior lecturer at Agder University, believes it is difficult to predict anything about a possible Supreme Court trial.

– You are in the middle of the transition to a new administration. It is dramatic, chaotic and difficult to predict anything about a possible Supreme Court trial, he says.

He interprets the takeover of Congress as desperate.

– It wasn’t a coup attempt. Whites have lost their supporter and are afraid of losing privilege, power and influence. We must remember that the United States has been characterized by polarization since slavery and long before that, he says.

Mustad believes that if he were to go up against a case in higher court, it is in part because Democrats want to lead by example.

– It will also be an attempt to ensure that Trump cannot run as a candidate in the 2024 elections. Strong forces in the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, have also wanted to use the 25th constitutional amendment to remove Trump, with large statements of speeches and Twitter messages as proof that it is unconstitutional and therefore Trump may be impeached.