(August 3, 2023 at 7:46 am)Angrboda Wrote:(August 3, 2023 at 6:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: This (latest) Trump indictment lists six unindicted co-conspirators. The general consensus is that at least five of them are lawyers who were hired by Trump: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, and Kenneth Chesebro.
Doesn’t this severely undercut Trump’s ‘advice of counsel’ defense?
Boru
It goes to intent. If he didn't intend to break the law he may not be culpable.
True as far as it goes. But I can easily image the five people mentioned above contacting Jack Smith with a what-can-we-work-out message (they haven’t been indicted, so they have a bit of wiggle room). Trump floating an ‘advice of counsel’ defense is tantamount to throwing his lawyers under the bus. None of these people are going to prison for Trump.
Boru
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