Fox News host: Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ to hold on to power
Published: Oct. 02, 2024, 5:39 p.m.
Fox News host Neil Cavuto said Wednesday that a newly unsealed filing in the federal Jan. 6 case revealed former President Trump “resorted to crimes” to stay in office.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/fox-news-host-trump-resorted-to-crimes-to-hold-on-to-power.html“It was in this newly unsealed court paper we’re learning that former President Trump resorted to crimes to cling to power after the 2020 election. We don’t know much more than that,” Cavuto said Wednesday on Fox News.
“A lot of this stuff was going to be coming out anyway. We’re going to be getting the latest on that, and a legal look at what is being revealed here and whether it’s giving us any new information, anything we don’t know. The timing of this, of course, is little more than about five weeks before the general election,” he added.
Prosecutors in the former president’s Jan. 6 case outlined their case against Trump in a newly unsealed court document on Wednesday, where special counsel Jack Smith argues that Trump’s offenses alleged in the case were private actions, not officials ones.
The filing came after a Supreme Court ruling over the summer gave broad immunity to presidents while in office. Smith is trying to argue that the actions he outlined in his case can still remain in his indictment of Trump because they were private acts.
“When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”),” the filing reads.
