Watch CNN's legal 'experts' embarrass themselves on live TV
If there’s anything we’ve learned in the past few years, it’s that the media-deemed “experts” in any field are usually anything but.
Now, CNN and The Atlantic are touting “legal experts” J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe, who are arguing that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment provides that Donald Trump can be prevented from running for president in 2024.
According to Mark Levin, Luttig and Tribe are, simply put, “two knuckleheads.”
The two published an article in The Atlantic titled “The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again.”
“The former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the resulting attack on the U.S. Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as president ever again,” the article reads.
“Of course, these guys used to hate each other's guts, but this is what they come together on,” Levin says, scoffing.
In a segment on CNN, Tribe explains why they believe the Constitution will be what bars Trump from the race, saying that “secretaries of state or other officials” will have to “determine whether, despite his obvious attempt to overturn the 2020 election and engage in insurrection, whether despite that somehow Trump gets to run, the secretaries of state around the country are going to go both ways on that.”
“Whichever way they go, they’ll be challenged in court, and that’ll end up in the Supreme Court, and what it will have to decide is what this language means,” he adds.
Levin notes that while these are the "legal experts" platformed by leftwing publications and media outlets, they’re not the only ones out there. And there are many more who disagree than agree.
“Just so you understand, folks, there are more scholars who say no to this than say yes, but the ones who say yes obviously are promoted by the Jim Acostas and the media,” he says.
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Trump's defamation battle: Former president sues E Jean Carroll over rape allegations
Writer E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in 1996 and then sued Trump for defamation when he denied the allegations.
A jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting Carroll but claimed he was not liable for rape. Carroll refused to abide by the ruling and went on CNN to claim that the former president raped her.
Now, Trump’s turned the tables back on her and is suing for defamation.
In an older clip of Trump speaking at a CNN town hall, Trump continued to claim that she was lying.
He then said, “I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband. Nice guy, John Johnson, he was a newscaster, a very nice man. She called him an ‘ape' — happens to be African-American, called him an ‘ape.’ The judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in.”
But Trump didn’t stop there.
According to the former president, Carroll’s dog or cat was named “vagina.”
“The judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in,” Trump said again.
Sara Gonzales watches the clip and bursts out laughing, commenting, “That's my favorite Trump quote ever.”
Stu Burguiere finds it all bizarre.
“It’s so long ago, these cases cannot be adjudicated this much. You can’t have a multiple decade separation between an incident and a discussion and a trial and all this. It’s just ridiculous.”
Jason Buttrill agrees and believes that Trump absolutely has a right to sue Carroll.
“I don’t think after the courts made a decision you can just go on cable news and then say, ‘This man is a rapist.’ I think he might have some, you know, grounds for, you know, saying that this is defamation.”
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