“This nugget will be presented to 12 jurors at Trump’s eventual prosecution as a little thing we call, “a statement of a party opponent” (FRE 801(d)(2)). In other words, an admission of guilt. Hey DOJ, #LetsRoll (#JusticeMatters video dropping later today),” tweeted former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.
The “nugget” is from a video posted at The Atlantic in which Donald John Trump admits he did not win the 2020 presidential election.
After conspiring (still allegedly) to overturn the election in a self-coup .
After inspiring the Jan. 6 insurrection in which hundreds were injured and several died.
After insisting for years that the election had been stolen.
After bilking millions of supporters out of hundreds of millions for his legal fight to steal it back. (Most went to his Save America PAC to be spent as he pleases.)
“I didn’t win the election,” Trump told a Zoom call with historians (The Guardian):
The admission came in a video interview with a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment. The interview was published on Monday by the Atlantic.
Trump also claimed that the 2020 election was “rigged and lost.” Consistency is not his strong suit. Nor is accuracy (The Atlantic):
When the Yale historian Beverly Gage brought up the president’s relationship with the FBI and the intelligence community—the subject of her chapter in our book—he eventually turned to the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021. According to his memory, the expert opinion was off. The “real story,” Trump argued, “has yet to be written.” When Congress met to certify the Electoral College results, Trump told us, there had been a “peaceful rally,” more than a “million people” who were full of “tremendous love” and believed the election was “rigged” and “robbed” and “stolen.” He made a “very modest” and “very peaceful” speech, a “presidential speech.” The throng at the Capitol was a “massive” and “tremendous” group of people. The day was marred by a small group of left-wing antifa and Black Lives Matter activists who “infiltrated” them and who were not stopped, because of poor decisions by the U.S. Capitol Police when some “bad things happened.”
Perhaps Trump can give his friend Vladimir Putin some pointers on defending himself against his Ukrainian “bad things.”
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