So the big news, obviously of this week, big news, that of course does not involve the
United States.
Supreme court was the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday during that impromptu
hearing from the January 6th committee.
And it's left a lot of people wondering, did casidy Hutchinson with all of her explosive
revelations implicate Donald Trump in actual criminal activity.
Now I know for a lot of people, they say, well, hell yes, she obviously did.
But if you think about it, the things that she described, it's kind of difficult to say
that yes, this rises to the level of criminal activity, you know, encouraging, armed people
to come into the protest or actually encouraging security to let the armed people come in.
That's not necessarily a crime, you know, lunging for the steering wheel, throwing his
lunch against the wall and getting ketchup everywhere.
It's gross.
It's not a crime, but does that mean that Donald Trump is not gonna face any legal consequences
for what Cassidy Hutchinson revealed?
Absolutely not because let's not forget that there are multiple civil lawsuits, actually
six of them that have been filed against Donald Trump for his involvement in the riot itself.
In fact, those six civil lawsuits alleged that Donald Trump is to blame for injuries
and damage sustain during the capital riot, because he in fact encouraged it.
And that is where casidy Hutchinson's testimony can really have a very large impact.
The, uh, example of Donald Trump, encouraging security to take away the metal detectors
so that his armed people could make it into that rally.
That is something that could easily come into play with a civil lawsuit.
And of course, like I said, all these lawsuits are alleging that Trump instigated this, that,
that he wanted it to happen, that he in fact loved every minute of it.
And he is therefore responsible for the injury suffered during it encouraging armed people
to come into that rally, you know, not the riot, but the rally itself that could be seen
as Donald Trump wanting violence.
Because again, in a civil trial, the threshold of having to prove the intent is far lower
than it would be in a criminal trial criminal trial.
If you do not have that intent, you got nothing civil trial.
On the other hand, you don't have to have that intent.
All you have to do is to be able to say this guy put people in danger or this guy wanted
to put people in danger and encouraging security to allow armed individuals to come into the
rally.
It's kind of hard to argue that Donald Trump wasn't putting people in danger with his
Request.
So that of course is the big thing here.
Can this be used against Donald Trump in a civil trial?
Well, what you would have to do at that point is actually bring Cassidy Hutchinson in to
testify once again, and basically tell the story all over in front of a jury, not out
of the realm of possibility by any stretch of the imagination.
In fact, it's likely something that now based on her current testimony would in fact happen.
And Donald Trump so far has lost all of his appeals.
He has won pending right now, but he's lost the previous ones trying to get these lawsuits
dismissed.
His, uh, uh, lawyers are arguing that he spoke at the stop, the steel rally in his official
capacity as the president of the United States.
Therefore he would be immune from these lawsuits, but you see therein lies.
Another problem because of his lawyers are trying to tell the court that no, no, no.
He was acting as the president when he spoke there.
Then that of course opens him up for the potential of criminal prosecutions because he was using
his official capacity as the president of the United States.
So it's kind of a rock and a hard place right now for Donald Trump and his, uh, legal team.
Honestly, if I were them, I would say the, uh, bigger hit would be hitting, uh, getting
hit, excuse me, with the criminal charges.
Just go ahead and pay off those civil lawsuits.
And don't try to argue that you were doing it in your official capacity as president
of the United States, because you don't wanna implicate yourself in further criminal activity.
It's easier to pay money than it is to go to jail, but we know how much Donald Trump
hates losing money.
So best of luck with that legal defense, cuz it may come back to bite
you in the end.