Trump Lawyer Corrects Self After Saying Clarence Thomas ‘Directed’ Defense

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-lawyer-jack-smith-election-interference-hearing-1949562

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  1. Just admitting what we already know was likely happening

  2. Are we going to have our first supreme court justice arrested?

  3. Because Clarence the Trump lover probably did direct the defense, Trump lawyers are really a bunch of money grabbing clowns

  5. Terminology doesn’t matter. You have a sitting Justice giving people advice on how to argue cases that will come before his court. It’s **extremely** unethical.

  6. The Federalist society member Clarence Thomas used a strategy made by other federalist society members to add details to his ruling he could get federalist society members on Trumps defense to argue a certain way before federalist society member Judge Aileen Cannon. We cannot fix the rot without fixing the federalist society and their criminal scheming.

  7. >Donald Trump’s defense attorney, John Lauro, quickly corrected himself in court on Thursday after saying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had “directed” him to challenge special counsel Jack Smith’s authority in the election subversion case.

    >During a hearing in Washington, D.C., addressing an updated indictment brought by Smith against the former president following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, Lauro referenced concerns raised by Thomas in a note on that ruling as a reason the case should be dismissed.

    >The reference from Lauro is to a note from Thomas that he wrote in the concurrence regarding the immunity ruling. Some speculated that note was written to be seen by Judge Aileen Cannon, A Trump appointed judge who is presiding over the classified documents case against the former president in Florida.

    So Justice Clarence Thomas is coaching for Trump. Can’t say anyone is surprised by this.

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    > Donald Trump's defense attorney, John Lauro, quickly corrected himself in court on Thursday after saying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had "Directed" him to challenge special counsel Jack Smith's authority in the election subversion case.

    > During a hearing in Washington, D.C., addressing an updated indictment brought by Smith against the former president following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, Lauro referenced concerns raised by Thomas in a note on that ruling as a reason the case should be dismissed.

    > Trump has pleaded not guilty and did not appear in court Thursday.

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  11. It does not rise to the level of a conspiracy (simply because most of the participants are not smart enough to initiate and maintain a conspiracy), but it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fascist, right wing whack jobs in this country are trying to coordinate their efforts to destroy our constitution and our democracy. Their flailing incompetence should not lull people’s awareness of the danger they pose – the beer hall putsch was comical, but the evil it portended was most definitely not.

  12. oh look it’s yet another thing everyone will forget about in a week

  13. There’s been every reason to impeach and remove Thomas. What did anyone think he was doing in the background?

  14. He then directed me to drop his name in order to intimidate you, your honor

  15. Why is this not more of an issue? For that matter:

    1)Why is the media so slow to wake up to Trump’s cognitive impairments and his age?

    2)Why aren’t things moving faster in terms of Supreme Court reform?

    3)Why isn’t everyone — both Rep and Dem — up in arms about the efforts underway by a small group of Republicans to undermine the election? (Surely there are more Republicans who stand up to the steps taken that have disenfranchised voters.)

  17. Ya know….. Biden could just get rid of the conservative SCOTUS justices. He has sweeping immunity and this would fall under his duty as president to uphold and defend the constitution. Just putting it out there.

  19. Like we didn’t know that? DUH!!!! Like Loose Canyon came up with all that crap of her own volition? Putler is certainly getting his money worth out of the American judicial system.

  23. Jack Smith must be able to file something in an Emergency Appeal to SCOTUS re: One Of Their Members Is Obstructing Justice to Favor Donald Trump, no? Force them to show their fucking hand.

  24. It’s amazing how corrupt the Judiciary system has exposed itself as being. An already multi-tiered system where money and connections buy better outcomes was further hollowed out by Trump’s malignant appointees who seem to have a disgust at the idea of having a fair and impartial judiciary.

    The Judicial Branch needs a good scrubbing, unfortunately, that can only happen by diluting the Trump SCOTUS and then holding biased judges like Cannon responsible for their corrupt actions.

  27. When you let the dumb kid in class copy your homework and he copies your name too

  28. And just like that, the house of cards began to fall…

  29. Clarence Thomas’s existence is a blight on society. How can a man take such personal pleasure in harming people?

  32. We have the weakest attorney general and American history with Garland at the helm. What a pathetic joke and a clown show that man is. He just made sure America knows for a fact that Justice does not apply to the rich but applies to everybody else.

  33. They are all part of the same group that will certify Shitler as president even when it clear that he lost by huge margins

  34. No. He did not correct himself. That was the point at which he realized he should have been lying all along. And so, he began to lie.

  35. Thomas is despicable. I have no doubt that he did indeed, direct Lauro to bring it up. He wants his little note to be a dog whistle to all of trumps lawyer and it was successful in getting that completely unqualified Cannon to dismiss a HUGE case of trump being a fucking traitor

  36. He le it slip. He said what he said and it was the truth.

  37. Justice for Sale! Justice for Sale! Get your own Supreme Court Justice for only 1 RV! Justice For Sale!

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