Turley: Trump January 6 Charges ‘Very Difficult Case to Prove’
by Jeff Poor
Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Your World,” Fox News contributor and law professor Jonathan Turley questioned the January 6 indictment of former President Donald Trump.
According to Turley, the case leveled against Trump by Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith was “very difficult to prove.”
“It’s really approaching the urban legend status because he’s not charged with incitement,” he said. “He’s not charged with insurrection. He’s not charged with seditious conspiracy. He’s not charged with all of those things the Democrats impeached him on the second time. So they’re really bigfooting the Constitution here. It’s not there. But the question is, what is here? And I have to tell you, this is pretty thin soup, in my view. They have a colossal constitutional problem that they will have to overcome from the outset. They have to establish all of these linchpins, that he not only believed that — the truth of the matter, that he understood he was lying, but then he played a criminal role in getting these other individuals to take the steps mentioned in the indictment.”