Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell had a series of terse exchanges with Jan. 6 committee investigators as she fielded questions about the legal theories that drove the Trump team’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election results, newly released transcripts from the committee illustrate.
Clearly the founders intended that actual election results could be easily overturned if they weren’t acceptable to the loser.
“It speaks for itself. It speaks for itself,” Mitchell replied
Seems to be her go-to phrase. I guess it’s shorter than saying, “No, I’m not going to add perjury to my list of potential charges and I don’t want to invoke the 5th amendment today”.
Highlights from her lowlife:
–B.A. and J.D. from the University of Oklahoma.
–Married Duane Draper in 1980. Divorced two years later. Draper later came out as gay and died of AIDS in 1991.
–Married Dale Mitchell in 1984. In 1992 Mitchell was convicted of five felony counts of conspiracy to defraud, misapplying bank funds and making false statements to banks. He was ordered to pay $3 million in restitution and given a suspended sentence of five years…
–In 2021, became lawyer for the criminal president (shortly before he was, fingers crossed, convicted and sentenced to life in prison).
Her resume speaks for itself.
You keep trying to expose the ridiculousness of what I wrote by asking for explicit answers to pertinent questions. I don’t like that.
I don’t think any of this, none of it, should rise to the level of your badgering me …
“The document speaks for itself,” Mitchell reiterated. “I’m not going to speculate further, not on what I meant or what my intent."
I won’t speculate about what I meant. God only knows how unfair that would be.
Interesting that she didn’t express her extreme antipathy toward voters and elections BEFORE Trump lost.
Trump loses. THEN she instantly has a problem with elections and voters??
Mitchell alternates between circumlocution and non-sequitur as the “investigator” attempts to pin her to the substantive fact that her argument lacks foundation and precedent. She finally attempts to falsely compare the events of 2000 to 2020 ending on mischaracterization and final non sequitur. It would be satisfying if she admitted to any of this but she is too busy dodging culpability and would probably be incapable of conceding in any case. In this at least she is akin to obdurate cultists like Ginni Thomas and the rest of the rebel crew.
“I am a lawyer”
Tracy Morgan is pulling his hair out somewhere.
The constitution also allows only a set amount of time for challenges to the electors. If I’m not mistaken, Trump had 40 days (from November 4th to December 14th to present EVIDENCE in court, to prove IN COURT that there was fraud, extensive enough to affect the election in any one state.
They DID NOT present that evidence. Even Giuliani admitted “We have lots of theories. We just don’t have any evidence.” By December 14th, all of Trump’s lawsuits had failed, save one. No actual evidence of voter fraud was ever entered into any court record, in any of the lawsuits, let alone enough voter fraud to affect the outcome.
Yet, the plan to subvert the intentions of the nation’s voters carried on even past January 6th. And Ms. Mitchell, was a part of that plan, whether she will admit it or not.
MULTIPLE Attorneys for Trump HAVE HAD THEIR DAMN LICENSES SUSPENDED for the frivilous lawsuits presented in court.
On Janury 2nd (JANUARY 2ND!!!) Ms. Mitchell was in on that phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. She sat there while Donald Trump tried to bribe/extort enough votes ouf of Georgia to win that state. An act that Trump will likely be indicted for, by next Spring.
Mitchell has worked closely with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, in the Council for National Policy to organize efforts to keep Trump in power, and The New York Times reported that it was Mitchell who “enlisted John Eastman, the lawyer who crafted specious legal theories claiming Vice President Mike Pence could keep Mr. Trump in power.”
Happy New Year, Kaila! Josh has chosen another excellent member of the team.
“The Senate should start making plans to object to the Biden electors in those states where the election is clearly fraudulent,” Mitchell allegedly wrote to the senator in December 2020.
Fine. There were none.
Mmmm. Word salad. It speaks for itself.
Come to think of it, if the salad is speaking for itself, it’s probably time to throw it out.
My question for Ms. Mitchell: If your theories are correct, why do we bother to let people vote at all?
It’s a mystery. Cleta doesn’t understand how we went so far astray for so long.
So if I understand her right, states have unreviewable (except maybe by federal courts years afterward) power to choose electors, and Congress has unreviewable (apparently by anyone) power to reject the electors that states choose. Sounds like an interesting standoff.
Meanwhile, even though the constitution specifically gives congress the power to regulate everything about state legislatures’ rules for elections except for senatorial contests, a law that prescribes such regulation is unconstitutional.
Got it.
Duane D., then Dale, and then Donald. If your name’s Danny or Doug or Dave, best stay away from her.
ex post facto, y’all!
next, she’ll be telling us women and blacks shouldn’t have been allowed to vote.
and that all those who voted, should have their votes thrown out.
There actually was some Republican who said the worst thing this country ever did was allow women to vote.
It was a woman. She said it, because she lost her election.
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“Lady, we tried asking that document a hundred times to answer these questions, but it never made a sound. Hell, truth be told, we never even got it sworn in, because IT CAN’T SPEAK FOR ITSELF–ONLY YOU, its author, CAN DO THAT!!”
“The document speaks for itself,” Mitchell reiterated. “I’m not going to speculate further, not on what I meant or what my intent. The document speaks for itself.”
Not to mention that the J6 legal team ought to be (smart enough to be) able to keep from getting Nathan Thurmed.
Lawyers don’t go to Law School for nothin’ ya know.
