Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Sunday that the U.S. Department of Justice has “evidence that satisfies the burden to indict” former President Donald Trump in connection with events on January 6, 2021, and urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to take “overt law enforcement action” against the ex-president.
Kirschner’s comments came in a video he posted on YouTube Sunday in which he argued that Trump is holding rallies and “continuing to push the Big Lie that their vote was stolen, their election was stolen.”
“He’s sending the message that this new batch of insurrectionists better fight like hell or they won’t have a country anymore. He’s doing it all over again,” Kirschner said.
Kirschner stated the Department of Justice “has a responsibility to protect the American people, including the Trump supporters. Hundreds are going to prison now for doing what Donald Trump told them, and Donald Trump is recruiting the next batch of future insurrectionists…and we’re letting him do it.”
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“The current administration is standing by and letting him do it. There’s a term for that, it’s called dereliction of duty. It’s time for overt law enforcement action to protect the American people,” the former federal prosecutor added.
Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s press office and the Department of Justice for comment.
In a post for MSNBC on Friday, Kirschner said that the recent public hearings of the committee investigating the insurrection on January 6, 2021, have shown “compelling (not circumstantial) evidence of Trump’s potential crimes.”
“Former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified that Trump told a group of department officials that it didn’t matter if the election was rife with fraud, adding, ‘just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.’ This is direct evidence — relayed by Donoghue under oath — of criminal intent,” Kirschner argued.
On Thursday, the January 6 committee had its eighth public hearing, and presented evidence regarding Trump’s alleged lack of action curing the Capitol riot.
Earlier this month, Kirschner said he believes that Trump “will be prosecuted” in state and federal court. He also argued that Garland has “probable cause on steroids” to indict the former president.
Speaking on the The Dean Obeidallah Show, Kirschner said he feels Garland is “not doing his damn job because he has probable cause on steroids for Donald Trump, for crime after crime after crime after crime,” he said.
“And he leaves him out holding rallies and continuing to push the big lie on people,” the former prosecutor added.
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