‘Dark moment’: Toobin identifies one Trump tweet that raises his legal liability

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin reacts to day three of the house hearings investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, and says one of Donald Trump's tweets from that day could mean legal trouble for the former president. #CNN #News

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  1. If any of us did the same there would be no legal problems, 100% we would get jail time. The rich look after the rich regardless of the party🤑

    1. *MUTE ALL RUSSIAN ETC.ETC TROLLS WHENEVER THEY POP-UP ON YOUR NOTIFICATIONS 👌 🇺🇲 ✌ 😁 *

    2. the same thing did happen during the blm riots which no legal action happened. oof swing and a miss

  2. Abuse of authority and conducting a coup are indictable offenses, regardless of a person’s position!

    1. “exactly, what coup?”
      What insurrection?
      Confused?
      These questions will be answered in the next episode of “Trumpster Dumpster Fire” 🤣

  3. The Rule of Law has to be for ALL regardless of Precedence. Nobody ever could imagine a US President calling for an Electorial College Coup or inciting an Insurrection. Breaking the Law is breaking the law WHOEVER you may be.

    1. It’s all double talk and nonsense.
      They knew he was a crook, all along.
      He was the original too big to fail.
      It’s time to put down the silly sauce and round up the criminal Republicans and their Democrat co-conspirators.

  4. I’m just astonished at how many bins and turns everybody makes for legal repercussions for his behavior when any other normal human being would be prosecuted

  5. Trump should already be in jail for that one single statement (in the super-whiny voice):
    “Look, I just wanna find, err, eleven thousand, seven hundred and eighty votes, which is one more than we have. Because, frankly, we DID win Georgia.” Irrefutable crime.
    The American justice system is comatose.

    1. CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE TODAYS WINNER! YOU WILL RECEIVE A 24″ SILICONE FIST IN YOUR CHOICE OF ANY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW.

  6. All that has been revealed and Toobin is still unsure about intent? He has officially reached Rick Santorum change the channel status!

    1. A PRE-LOGICAL ORANGE MUMMY IS BACK, TO PICK-UP HIS OWN SKULL !!!!!LOL!!! from Washington Trough!!!!

    2. I would have preferred that they didn’t have Toobin on, and instead had someone else with a more astute legal mind like Goldman (someone who was on par w/ Goldman…which Toobin is not). I don’t need to see people disagreeing w/ bogus legal arguments like Toobin’s

    1. A PRE-LOGICAL ORANGE MUMMY IS BACK, TO PICK-UP HIS OWN SKULL !!!!!LOL!!! from Washington Trough!!!!

    2. HE ALWAYZ SEEMS TO TAKE TRUMP’S SIDE BUT THAT GOD HE’S JUST A T.V LAWYER & THAT’S IT 😂🤣😅

  7. OMG! I hope Toobin is clueless! Seems committing a coup is no issue for him. Goldman sounds more reasonable!

  8. I think the conspiracy that Dan Goldman speaks of is the broader charge and the one more likely to succeed at trial. A charge of inciting violence alone would not cover the full exent of the criminality involved.

  9. It’s reassuring to know that nobody is listening to Toobin’s ridiculous meandering because their full attention is on where his hands are.

  10. What the hell happened to Jeffrey Toobin? Why is he suddenly defending criminal activity and the criminals. This is not a matter of looking at a different side of the litigation he is outright dismissing actual crime.

    Metaphorically he is saying the driver of the bank robbery car is not guilty of the robbery nor of any of the deaths as a result of the robbery. He is saying that the driver of the getaway car got legal advice and told him that being the driver was not really robbing the bank and that’s OK as long as he got the legal advice he’s just choosing bad legal advice and not guilty of the crime. This is what Jeffrey Toobin is doing. Listen to every defense of crime. And the people around him failed to remind him of this metaphor they also fail to challenge him on his obvious defense. Several federal judges have already declared there was a crime but Jeffrey Toobin can’t get there. Did Jeffrey forget the trust the planning of the insurrection is a crime. It did not even have to be fully executed as it was. Proud boys are being prosecuted right now for having a plan in hand and yes they were not able to capture any congressman. I’m just amazed this entire news team has let me down there is something weird that they cannot challenge Jeffrey Toobin.

    1. @dlbark Well I run a busy life to focus on researching which email was sent by some politician to which politician claiming what…
      All I know is that the FBI was lied to which implies there was no collusion.
      Further implying some one fooled a full institute of government and because we are politically blind and can’t dare to tolerate the other side, we just ignore it like nothing happened.
      It’s politics and therefore no hard feelings

  11. Using Toobin’s reasoning, if I could find one lawyer who told me burning down an orphanage is perfectly legal, I would be in the clear. Taking it a step farther, if I found some random person who falsely claimed to be a lawyer and I was gullible enough to believe them, I could commit any kind of crime based on their advice and avoid going to jail.

    1. *MUTE ALL RUSSIAN ETC.ETC TROLLS WHENEVER THEY POP-UP ON YOUR NOTIFICATIONS 👌 🇺🇲 ✌ *

    2. @renideo you began your comment with, “you are incorrect.”
      Then you commented, “I’m saying you’re wrong about his reasoning.”
      You finished with, “I cannot comment on what is right or wrong myself.”
      You are a M.O.R.O.N.

  12. Jeffrey Toobin’s logic is that if a lawyer tells you a lie, that a crime is not a crime, and you commit it, it’s not illegal; this is not true. Therefore, it is not a valid argument. A crime is a crime, regardless of the perpetrator’s knowledge of the law.

    1. @Cornelius Gal If “my lawyer told me that it was legal ” was a legitimate legal defense, no one would ever be convicted. Every defense attorney would tell the court “I told the defendant that it is legal “

    2. @sangha Try to understand that sometimes the law is black and white, but often it is shades of grey. If a lawyer provides legal advice on a specific set of circumstances, and the client followed that advice when those circumstances existed, then the lawyer, not the client, is legally responsible.

  13. If we were to do something like this , we would be in jail years ago, and one simple statement leveled at us: “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Founders if this country said no one is above the law and there shall not be kings in this country. This is the deepest betrayal of all.

  14. I’ve relistened to Judge Luttig’s comments from yesterday’s hearings. In real time, it was annoying to try to listen to him. Too slow, too many pauses. But, listening intently to his comments later, he is clear and direct in his scholarly opinion of the criminality of the attempted coup and he absolutely refutes all of Eastman’s plan as illegal and unconstitutional

  15. So if my attorney tells me lies & by law I’m allowed to steal, harm, etc… I can claim well I believed my attorney therefore I can’t be held accountable 🤨 This take is exactly WHY we are HERE right now in this country smh

  16. We had lots of “dark moments” tweets from 2016 on that explained exactly how this was all going to end with a “man” like him. Why weren’t people alarmed the whole time?

  17. “You know what I liked about Trump? Everybody was afraid of him, including me….Don’t you miss that?”–Senator Lindsey Graham—who thinks LIBERTY! and FREEDOM! is being AFRAID of OUR government.

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