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In reply to the discussion: Overlooked by a lot of people in Jack Smith's filing: Trump used burner phone to pressure election officials [View all]Texin
(2,672 posts)20. Criminal Law 101: the act "betrays a consciousness of guilt".
He knew he was acting outside the bounds of his "official" executive privileges and suborning unlawful acts on behalf of election officials, some of whom were elected state officials in executive seats.
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Overlooked by a lot of people in Jack Smith's filing: Trump used burner phone to pressure election officials [View all]
kpete
Oct 27
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Or "What Would Justice Do" - Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Coney-Barret, Gorsuch, BeerBongBoy
erronis
Oct 27
#11
Kinda ruins any chance he may have had of trying to argue these were "official acts", doesn't it?
Wiz Imp
Oct 27
#5
When it absolutely, positively needs to be there and then disappeared, burner phone.
DJ Porkchop
Oct 27
#8
Just like the burner phones that Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and others used before ..
Botany
Oct 27
#18
But will the Royal Subversive Court issue an edict that the phones became official by his touch?
Hermit-The-Prog
Oct 27
#37
I think this has been forgotten but during Trumps time there were a lot of spy cell sites in DC (called Stingers)
LiberalArkie
Oct 27
#28