It is hard to imagine stronger evidence” than this that Trump’s conduct was private
The content of the 2.24pm tweet was not a message sent to address a matter of public concern and ease unrest; it was the message of an angry candidate upon the realization that he would lose power.”
You took a dying political party and gave it a new lease on life”.
An FBI Computer Analysis Response Team forensic examiner can testify as to the news and social media applications downloaded on the defendant's phone and can describe the activity occurring on the phone throughout the afternoon of January 6. The phone's activity logs show that the defendant was using his phone, and in particular, using the Twitter application, consistently throughout the day after he returned from the Ellipse speech,
I’m so angry about it, because what they’re doing is interfering in the election,
Well, of course — if we have a free, fair and safe election, we’re going to follow the Constitution,
Our primary focus is not to get out the vote — it’s to make sure they don’t cheat, because we have all the votes you need,
It’s like a form of election interference when they tell you, ‘You can’t have enough people to guard yourself,
The Democrat Party is guilty of the Worst Election Interference in American History,
If Jesus came down and was the voter counter, I would win California,
She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”
Defendant's opposition brief repeatedly accuses the government of bad-faith partisan bias. These accusations, for which Defendant provides no support, continue a pattern of defense filings focusing on political rhetoric rather than addressing the legal issues at hand,
The rest of the nine-page opposition rehashes Defendant's position that immunity briefing should not begin until he files a motion to dismiss several months from now. The court has already addressed the scheduling objections Defendant raised when he was given an opportunity to do so,
I knew Trump pressured Mike Pence to break the law. I just didn’t know how many times he did it,
Pence was like, ‘Keep your head up,’ and Trump was like, ‘I’m gonna put your head up in a noose,’
Can you imagine calling a guy to wish him a Merry Christmas, and he’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, whatever, I need you to commit some treason for me.’ It’s Christmas treason.”
Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.”
When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office,
I don’t think anybody, including the government, thought this was what we were gonna get,
I believe that Black people are needed on both sides,