Kansas AG Kobach says Trump isn't legally culpable for Jan. 6 ahead of potential federal indictment

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As federal prosecutors move closer to a potential indictment against former President Donald Trump related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said the former president should not be legally culpable for the riot that followed Trump’s rally in Washington that day.

In an interview with The Star Thursday, Kobach said Trump’s monthslong effort to sow doubt in the 2020 presidential election was protected by the First Amendment. He also cited Trumps’ statements on Jan. 6, 2021 urging a peaceful protest.

“I don’t think any politician should be considered criminally culpable for merely expressing his or her thoughts about the conduct of an election,” Kobach said.

Trump’s legal team met with members of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team Thursday ahead of a potential indictment, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kobach-says-trump-isn-t-205315067.html

So much for the claim by the GOP as being the party of law and order and personal responsibility.

[dchill]

1. Therefore, Kobach is unqualified for his job.

[marble falls]

2. Kobach being Kobach. Elect idiots, you get the things that idiots says. He's stupid enough to ...

... believe it, too.

[Cha]

3. I'll listen to what jack Smith has

to say about it.. Not some GD Whiny ass magat R trying to save his shithole party.

[emulatorloo]

5. ...

‘Shithole Party’.

[Cha]

9. Heh..

[emulatorloo]

4. He should wait until he's read the indictment. There may be surprises in there he hasn't thought

about. Like fake electors, pressuring the DOJ and Mike Pence, et cetera.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Or conspiring with agitators ahead of Jan.6.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. In Addition...

...I haven't read any speculation that the charges under consideration are inciting the riot.
So, this idiot may he offering a defense for a charge that isn't coming.

[emulatorloo]

13. ++++

[MuseRider]

6. Of course he said that,

he is a mean, bigoted blockhead.

Seriously, why would this even make the news? He means nothing except for us who have to deal with him. We walked around for days scratching our heads wondering how in the hell anyone in Kansas would ever want to see this moron in office ever again. It is not like he left with love.

He is just trying to climb. He was pushed off his run for higher office and kicked in the crotch but he is that kind of guy who believes you can always come back. Apparently our voters in Kansas are not smart enough to realize what he was he still is and his "change" (if there was one) was only to get back in office.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Kobach is an idiot

[Locutusofborg]

10. Kobach & Pence

Chaired Trump's "Commission on Election Integrity" which was supposed to prove that Trump won the popular vote in 2016. The Commission failed miserably and Trump shut it down.

[bullimiami]

12. WRONG AGAIN!

[deminks]

14. This from a guy who's last judge ordered him back to law school.

I take his opinions with a fine grain of salt.