In a recent piece for NBC news, two former prosecutors and legal scholars made the case
that there are at least at least six crimes right now that Donald Trump could in fact
be indicted for now, the two prosecutors or former prosecutors.
One of them is also a former, uh, white house ethics attorney by the name of Richard painter,
who I'm sure most people are actually familiar with.
The other is Claire Finkelstein, who is a, uh, a professor at the university of Pennsylvania.
So they laid out in this article six crimes that Donald Trump could likely be indicted
for today if it came down to it.
And some of these of course are the more recent things that we have learned.
And some of them are throwbacks to crimes.
People probably forgot that Donald Trump likely committed.
So let me read this, their whole list here in their words.
Number one, obstructing justice as identified in the Mueller investigation, pretty obvious,
right?
The Mueller report listed at least 10 different examples of when the Trump administration,
Trump himself obstructed justice as part of the investigation, that's pretty simple and
straightforward.
And of course he was never held accountable for any of that.
Number two bribing and or extorting Ukraine with military aid to investigate his political
opponent, Joe Biden and conduct another investigation, undermining the Mueller investigation again,
pretty straightforward.
Yes, he was impeached for that, but they also could have just impaneled a, uh, you know,
grand jury to investigate it.
But they didn't because Trump was president at the time and he controlled the DOJ, but
he doesn't now.
So what you waiting for?
Number three, coercing cabinet members and other federal employees to engage in partisan
political activity in violation of the criminal political coercion provisions of the hatch
act again, throughout the entire Trump administration, we saw countless incidents of them violating
the hatch act.
And of course, if Trump coerced them to do this, then yeah, that's prosecutable number
four, soliciting election fraud in a phone call to Georgia secretary of state in November,
2020.
We've talked about that at length.
That is the call to Brad.
Rothenberger the go find the votes call, which he is currently being investigated for, of
course, in, in the state of Georgia criminal S edition in authorizing preparation of the
unsigned draft executive order dated December 16th, 2020 pursuant to which president Trump
would have ordered the secretary of defense.
Two sees voting machines in certain states to look for evidence of election fraud.
Again, talked about that at length.
And that's just one of the many plans that they had in place that they almost went forward
with to seize the voting machines.
There was, you know, use the military and the Pentagon use Homeland security use the
FBI use local police in Michigan.
Use a local prosecutor in Michigan.
The list goes on and on.
And number six, inciting its direction at the capital in January 6th, 2021.
Again, fairly obvious of course, that one depends on the court's definition of insurrection.
Does January six rise to that definition.
And of course, did Donald Trump's words that fight like hell or you won't have a country
anymore.
Uh, does that count as inciting the actual insurrection?
I, I think a lot of us would agree.
Yes.
But again, that's a decision the courts would have to make themselves, so there it is.
So the question is, what the hell are we waiting for?
Right.
There's six crimes right off the top.
And I'm sure that, uh, painter and, uh, uh, uh, Finkelstein here didn't even have to think
very hard to remember all of these.
The worst part is like this list continues to keep growing because this list doesn't
even include all the information we learned in the last week about him violating the presidential
records act, which of course involved the flushing of documents down the toilet, tearing
them up and hiding the boxes at bar Lago.
And yes, we do now know that some of the documents were in fact labeled top secret.
So I don't know what more merit Garland needs get off your butt and start at least to investigating
this guy, if not, go ahead and move forward with indictments anyway, because all of the
evidence is pretty much readily available for you.