Republican Representative Lauren Boebert wanted to score some much-needed points with her voters by inserting a provision to a budget bill that would forbid the government from sending money to "sanctuary cities." The only problem with her motion, as Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer pointed out to her, is that this bill didn't even do that, and he put Boebert on her heels when trying to get an answer from her about what she was doing.
Also, Judge Tanya Chutkan sided with prosecutors this week, and ruled that Donald Trump will have to officially declare if he's going to use an "advice of counsel" defense in his upcoming trial next year. If Trump says he will use that defense, then it was made clear that he can no longer claim attorney-client privilege over his documents, nor can he claim executive privilege, forcing him to give prosecutors everything they've ever wanted. If he declines, then he can't throw his lawyers under the bus. Farron explains how badly this hurts Trump.
And a new court filing this week from special prosecutor Jack Smith's office shows that his team is preparing to pin the blame for the Capitol Riot squarely on Donald Trump during the main federal trial against him next year. The filing makes it clear that inciting the riot was Trump's way to intimidate members of Congress into voting to NOT certify the 2020 election results, or at the very least to delay the inevitable. This could open up a whole new area of liability for the former President.
Finally, Trump lawyer Alina Habba made a complete fool of herself in court this week while Ivanka Trump was on the stand. Habba tried to object to the contents of an email from Ivanka, claiming that the email was never actually sent, so it shouldn't be at the trial. The prosecution then had to point out that not only was the email sent, but it was from a batch of documents that Habba and her team introduced. She objected to her own evidence and didn't even realize it. Farron explains what this tells us about Trump's legal team.
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