{"id":1992596,"date":"2023-08-06T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-argue-he-committed-a-technical-violation-of-the-constitution-but-no-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T21:39:06","slug":"trump-attorneys-argue-he-committed-a-technical-violation-of-the-constitution-but-no-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-argue-he-committed-a-technical-violation-of-the-constitution-but-no-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s lawyers claim he breached the Constitution, but did not commit a crime."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-attorneys-argue-he-committed-a-technical-violation-of-the-constitution-but-no-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1992596&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former\u2063 President Trump&#8217;s Attorney Argues Technical Violation of Constitution,\u200b Not a \u2063Crime<\/h2>\n<p>During an appearance\u2062 on NBC&#8217;s Meet \u2064the Press, John Lauro, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-moves-up-deadline-for-supreme-court-briefing-in-pennsylvania-lawsuit-to-flip-the-election\/\" title=\"Justice Alito Moves Up Deadline For Supreme Court Briefing in Pennsylvania Lawsuit to Flip the Election\">attorney representing<\/a> former President Donald Trump, made \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/houstons-cheating-problem-and-ours\/\" title=\"Houston\u2019s Cheating Problem\u2014And Ours\">compelling argument<\/a> in \u200cresponse to host\u200b Chuck Todd&#8217;s questions about Trump&#8217;s actions and their potential impact on\u200c the 2020 election. Lauro emphasized that Vice President Mike Pence\u200c had never\u2064 accused Trump \u200cof\u200b breaking any laws.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Vice President Pence is an\u2063 attorney,&#8221; Lauro \u200bstated. &#8220;If he believed that President\u200d Trump had acted unlawfully or violated criminal law, he\u200c would have said\u2064 so. \u200bBut no one \u2062has ever suggested\u200c that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Todd countered \u2063by mentioning Pence&#8217;s statement \u2063about Trump \u2064asking him to violate the Constitution. However, Lauro \u200bfirmly disagreed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;No, that&#8217;s \u200bincorrect,&#8221; Lauro responded. &#8220;A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/koreans-rip-up-chinese-flags-at-protest-accusing-host-of-cheating-at-genocide-games\/\" title=\"Koreans Rip Up Chinese Flags at Protest Accusing Host of Cheating at Genocide Games\">technical violation<\/a> of the \u200bConstitution is not a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aliens-have-visited-america-and-this-is-what-they-saw\/\" title=\"Aliens spotted in America, here's what they witnessed.\">criminal\u200c offense<\/a>. To claim otherwise goes\u2064 against established legal principles and decades \u200bof legal \u2064precedent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lauro\u2062 further argued that this case could\u200c be one of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-argue-he-committed-a-technical-violation-of-the-constitution-but-no-crime\/\" title=\"Trump's lawyers claim he breached the Constitution, but did not commit a crime.\">significant \u2062civil rights constitutional cases<\/a> \u2064in recent history.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Everything President \u200cTrump did\u2062 was within the scope of his presidential duties. As a result, he is immune from prosecution for actions\u200d taken in connection with those policies,&#8221; Lauro explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Todd \u200backnowledged the unique legal territory that this argument presents, describing it as an &#8220;interesting legal place&#8221; to explore.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note \u2064that Trump was indicted on Thursday for four federal crimes, \u2063including conspiracy to defraud and obstruction and\u200d conspiracy of rights. However, he\u2063 has pleaded not guilty to \u200ball charges.<\/p>\n<p>For\u200b more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to visit The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attorney, John Lauro, stated on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press that Trump&#8217;s actions were a &#8220;technical violation of the Constitution&#8221; but not a criminal offense. When questioned by host Chuck Todd about Trump&#8217;s disagreement with Vice President Mike Pence, Lauro argued that it was the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}