But now she has lawyer. On the floor of the US Senate.
The actions of Bruce Castor Jr. at the start of Trump’s second indictment will probably be remembered more for his aimless struggle than anything else. But Castor’s Tuesday monologue was also noteworthy for something he said while trying to reach a rare point.
Castor argued that the real reason Trump has been charged again is that his opponents in the House Democratic majority do not want to see him run in the 2024 election. (If two-thirds of the senators are present to convict Trump, a simple majority of senators could decide to ban Trump from holding the future office.) Castor said the decision on who the next president serves should be the American people are left.
And Castor said, “The people are smart enough … to elect a new government if they do not like the old one. And they just did.” Shortly afterwards, Castor adds that it is common: “The people are getting tired of a government they do not want. And they know how to change it. And they just did.”
Castor’s assertion about what the people “just did” is obvious to anyone willing to acknowledge reality. Except that Trump tried hard to create an alternative reality.
Although Joe Biden married Trump in Electoral College and earned more than seven million votes, fair and square, Trump repeatedly stated that the people had re-elected him in a ‘landslide’ and that fraud and theft had deceived him from his rightful victory. has. . (He repeated this nonsense, even in the video he tweeted during the Capitol uprising.)
While Trump finally acknowledged in his declining days in office that a new government would take over, he never conceded that voters really chose someone else over him – much less that voters did so because they did not ‘want’ or the Trump administration “like”.
Trump’s attorneys’ statements before the trial were filled with false claims and distortions in the Trump style. But Castor is only twisting in the truth to blow up one of his client’s favorite lies.