So a woman accuses you of rape. You make a bunch of statements accusing her of lying. She sues you for defamation. Your defense (such as it is) was that you were POTUS when you made the statements so you can't be sued personally. 1/3
You issue a BRAND NEW statement REPEATING all the
earlier defamatory statements, but since you're no longer
POTUS, you NO
LONGER HAVE THAT DEFENSE you've been pushing for years that you made the statements while you were president!!!
Along the lines of @StevenTDennis's "Friday Night Zillow," I propose #SundayNightSlammer, where you pick the Federal Bureau of Prisons facility that would best serve as Trump '24 campaign HQ.
"Shortly before Mr. Garland made the announcement, a person close to Mr. Trump reached out to a Justice Department official to pass along a message from the former president to the attorney general." nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/…
"Mr. Trump wanted Mr. Garland to know he had been checking in with people around the country and found them to be enraged by the search." nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/…
"'The country is on fire,' Mr. Trump said, according to a person familiar with the exchange. 'What can I do to reduce the heat?'" nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/…
Trump said this to a lot of people, and although it's not necessary to prove criminal intent, it ought to suffice along with everything else. This is from page 128 of @JonLemire's new book.
See also this report from the day before the insurrection: "According to three people who have spoken to Trump..., with one conversation occurring a week ago. Trump admits his defeat." politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
And this quote attributed to Trump: "Can you believe I lost to that f**king guy? That f**king corpse?" axios.com/2021/01/17/tru…