Here comes the big Trump-Pence bombshell ahead of the January 6th public hearings
The January 6th Committee has an inside witness who’s confirmed that Donald Trump floated the idea of having Mike Pence hanged, per the NY Times. It took the committee a long time to crack Trump’s inner circle. But now it’s exposed Trump’s actions as including sedition, domestic terrorism, and a murder plot.
Trump, in his capacity as President of the United States, called for the death of the Vice President. It doesn’t matter that the military advisers or secret service agents in the room would never have acted on this. It only matters that Trump said it.
It also matters greatly that Trump said this while watching a domestic terrorist attack whose specific goal was to murder Pence – as evidenced by the gallows the attackers put out front.
Legally, it no longer matters if it can be proven that Trump knew in advance that the Capitol would be attacked, or that Pence would be targeted for death. Once this plot was underway, Trump voiced his support for it, in his capacity as President of the United States.
Trump will try a reasonable doubt defense at trial that he was joking or being sarcastic, and that may or may not work. But reasonable doubt doesn’t matter in the court of public opinion. Most Americans will come away from the January 6th hearings concluding he’s guilty of everything.
