"If you give up that right, anything you say can, and will, be used against you in a court of law.”Former Trump WH lawyer Ty Cobb on Trump promising to release a “large complex, detailed, but irrefutable report on the presidential election fraud”:
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 16, 2023
“There’s a good chance that whatever document he produces ends up as evidence against him. It could even end up as the basis for… pic.twitter.com/gEycQUntC0
I don’t even know if that’s the approved and vetted language of a Miranda warning (case law is a powerful and occult force). But it’s the language of TeeVee cop shows, so familiar people in Europe thought it applied to them.
And that’s the point.
Trump wants to try this case on TeeVee (that link is just an example). Everybody knows the Miranda warning from TeeVee. That sort of makes any argument that Trump has uncontrolled free speech rights, moot. He can talk all he wants; but the prosecution can use it, and that’s not “weaponizing” anything. And we all assume he’s been told that three times already; soon to be four.
As we all know, that’s how criminal law works.
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