Legal Minds Nail Trump After Fox News ‘Confession’

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Legal Minds Nail Trump After Fox News ‘Confession’

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on Sunday tried to defend himself from the ********* charges he’s facing in the election interference case ― but experts say it sounded more like a confession.

Trump on

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bragged that his poll numbers go up every time he’s indicted.

“Whoever heard, you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up,” he said.

Trump is facing charges in multiple jurisdictions and cases, including election interference in a ********* case filed in federal court in Washington. Last week,

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to comply with directions from the Supreme Court, which in July ruled that Trump was immune from prosecution for “official acts.”

On Sunday, however, Trump flat out said he had “every right” to have been “interfering” with the election.

Lawmakers, former prosecutors, attorneys and other legal minds were ready with a fact-check ― and some said it sounded like Trump was admitting to a ******:

Dear

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: Are you seriously this *******? You think President Biden has the right to interfere in the upcoming election? Do you want VP Harris to do what you tried to get former VP Mike Pence to do? Are you really this *****?

Also, interfering in elections is ********.

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— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu)

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There’s no right to “interfere” with a presidential election. This is the banality of evil right here—Trump asserting he can override the will of the voters to claim victory in an election he lost. And, he will do it again. We must vote against him in overwhelming numbers.

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— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance)

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I love that Trump uses the word “interfere” thereby making the case against himself.

— Elizabeth de la Vega

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