John Lauro, Trump lawyer, makes the rounds

John Lauro, lead counsel for Donald Trump in his January 6 case, made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows. In the process he projected confidence and pointed out inconsistencies in the statements by at least one critic.

John Lauro stumps the talk show circuit

John Lauro made appearances on five Sunday talk shows, on ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, and Fox.

On Fox News Sunday, Lauro charged that the January 6 prosecution of Trump was an effort to keep him from running for President.

On ABC’s This Week Lauro addressed directly the statement by former Vice-President Mike Pence that Trump demanded an improper favor. Simon Ateba of Today News Africa copied the statement in full.

Before he had even read the indictment, Pence condemned Trump for asking him to disallow election returns in key States. But John Lauro cited Pence’s own book, in which he explicitly said Trump had no criminal intent. Then he teased a plan to examine Mike Pence as a witness at trial.

Lauro made clear his intend to draw out from Pence, at cross-examination, an admission that Trump had no criminal intent.

On Meet the Press, Lauro made the most striking allegation of all: that Attorney General Merrick Garland has done everything, in relation to President Trump, at the behest of the White House and President Biden.

The New York Times in fact reported, as far back as March 2023, that Biden grew impatient with Garland. (Actually the report goes back further, to April 2022.) In response to the so-called “Documents Case,” Biden refused to comment. But almost a year earlier, he had held that Trump posed “a threat to democracy.” (See also this piece in The Post Millennial.)

Other reports

The Gateway Pundit, last Thursday (August 3), cited other reports from last year describing pressure by Biden on Garland. These reports do not come from “the usual right-wing suspects,” either. They come from Politico.com and CNN.