The New Special Counsel Is Bad News For Trump

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@LegalEagle Год назад

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@lukelittler60 Год назад

Ross Ulbricht

@jamieward2880 Год назад

@ Legal Eagle.... hunter and joe investigation,and irs onslaught on poor people these baffle me.

@arcaderdude Год назад

IM ON CRACK

@MrCiris989 Год назад

FTC suing Microsoft. I would like to know from a lawyer what kind of case the FTC has. Love your video no matter what you do.

@measl Год назад

This has gone far beyond just stupid. It's starting to look like a vendetta.

@LastStar007 Год назад

Ugh. It's always "We can't investigate him because of this, we can't investigate because of that, we can't investigate because it will look political, we just won't investigate Gaetz or Giuliani because I decided not to." I fail to see how this is an even standard of justice.

@unsolicitedditkapics9722 Год назад

"credibility issues" with Gaetz witnesses. Weird how a biased as hell cop's word is good enough to get you in full on rape prison but they drop this.

@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 Год назад

They need to stop trying to take the high road against an opponent who has proven that they're willing to go low.

@kyleoates6367 Год назад

@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 Seriously. The moment Obama was blocked from filling a supreme court justice seat was the moment republicans lost ALL lenience as far as the justice system is concerned.

@briannaodonnell2572 Год назад

@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 You should watch a video Innuendo Studios made called "The Alt Right Playbook - They go low, we go high" covers this topic and is a great entry in the series.

@rejamrejam Год назад

He's never going to see any justice because of this. Democrats are gonna wave their heads in dismay right into a right wing coup at this rate.

@randox24 Год назад

"Drawing the line between political action and bribery is very tough to do, let alone get convictions" is such a depressing sentence to describe our legal system.

@TheMightyDozen Год назад

The day someone figures out a good political system where financial concerns are disconnected from political concerns will be a good day indeed... Unfortunately I don't believe such a system could even exist, but I'd welcome being proven wrong on this.

@saxor96 Год назад

@@TheMightyDozen I mean, there's a difference between a political system where money is a concern/risk (which will always happen), and a political system that practically makes bribery legal by just calling it "lobbying."

@RakeshMalikWhiteCrane Год назад

Our what? Where?

@eljanrimsa5843 Год назад

Every country on the whole planet has the same problem, and some manage to get better results than others, just look around don't be such exceptionalist hypocrites, Americans! The trick is to make the appearance of anything improper illegal, so you don't have to prove intent. When I have a business relationship with a customer company I have to make sure nothing is offered or accepted that could be interpreted as personal gain for me or my counterpart in the other company. Why can't American politicians be held to the same standard?

@TheMightyDozen Год назад

@@saxor96 OK, let's make it more specific: A good political system where the personal-financial concerns of politicians are disconnected from their actions as public figures. This I would also argue cannot exist.

@cyberdelicxp9125 Год назад

You can't send me to jail, officer, I'm JUST put in my application to Starbucks.

@DrMatthewPhilippsMD Год назад

I think I'm going to go commit some crimes and then also immediately run for public office since that's apparently all it takes to not be charged

@thewolfofthestars1847 Год назад

This kind of shit has been going on for ages tbh. I recall a case hundreds of years ago in the UK where a guy served a year in Parliament to avoid getting charged for murdering some dude. Depressingly, nothing new.

@TooLateForIeago Год назад

Or, here me out here, we could investigate and prosecute suspects regardless of their activities or public office, and not allow people to be above the law...

@alr2157 Год назад

you mean like Biden ?

@ilaser4064 Год назад

@@alr2157 🤡I guess you also think the election was stolen from Donny even though two years later they've still failed to provide a shred of evidence. Seriously clown, isn't Tucker on to tell you what to think?

@dzanderallison Год назад

@@alr2157 if more people had seen Biden's kid's private parts, they definitely would have voted for a tall toddler in an ill-fit suit on his third wife :(

@CherryBomb_Games Год назад

@@alr2157 I love how this is meant to be a gotcha question. Yeah, if he's guilty, lock him up.

@csnide6702 Год назад

hear*

@ReverendTed Год назад

This sort of thing is eternally frustrating to me: "The President has asked me to do something I find illegal or unacceptable. I am refusing to do it. I will resign so the President can have someone else put in place to do it."

@Quotenwagnerianer Год назад

It's kind of how companies justify importing products tied to child labour: "If we don't do it someone else will..."

@PopeGoliath Год назад

If they really believe strong enough to stop it, they'd stay in place and make it harder.

@Avarren Год назад

Pretty sure the alternative was to get fired so resigning doesn’t change the outcome of said person is no longer in said position.

@ReverendTed Год назад

@@Avarren That's true. It's still incredibly frustrating.

@VineFynn Год назад

I mean, unless it really is illegal, it is their job to follow those orders. Resigning is the appropriate alternative.

@sogghartha Год назад

looks like there's one justice system for the politicians and a much stricter one for the rest of us

@JoeOvercoat Год назад

let’s be perfectly clear: there is one justice system for the rich and famous and politically connected, and then there’s the system for the rest of us.

@Nixeu42 7 месяцев назад

See, I'm not even sure that's the issue here. That may play something of a role, but I think the cult following (that in some cases is literally religious, Trump appears to have the undying support of several mega-pastors and innumerable smaller ones), that has already tried to overthrow the government once, is what has people handling this carefully. No one really wants to start another civil war.

@markwilliams2620 Год назад

I look at Jack Smith's eyes and my response is "OK, how much time and where do I sign?". A vibe of a cross between a lauded legal professor and the Terminator. He will not stop...EVER!

@tskmaster3837 Год назад

"It appears Garland has chosen not to prosecute Matt Gaetz and Rudy Guiliani." [Deep breath]. That [deep breath] says a lot more on the matter than Garland ever will.

@brianjensen5661 Год назад

It's says garland is a coward.

@userbosco Год назад

WTF? Since when? I just saw a vid on Meidas Touch covering Gaetz's ongoing issues w/ DOJ.

@hezekiahramirez6965 Год назад

Meidas Touch is a political ad group. Their mission is to make it look like Republicans are weak and in trouble. You're not watching a news source. You're just watching political ads

@JohnDough-yr2zt Год назад

@@userboscothe DOJ’s top apologists.

@JohnDough-yr2zt Год назад

Garland the Gutless

@victoriarees4540 Год назад

All this committee talk reminds me of the bureaucracy episode of Futurama. " I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in... We kept it grey!"

@kawannastephenson8733 Год назад

You said it.

@verySharkey Год назад

I'm not American but everytime I watch news or even just this channel I get the feeling it's scarily hard to hold politicians in the US accountable to their actions. Not to say it's any easier where I live, it might be or might not be but I wouldn't know. It's just that feeling of unchecked power that makes me have really bad feelings whenver I hear about it.

@johnnydjiurkopff Год назад

Yeah, between everything about the Clintons and Maxwell's client list never being released, it's really obvious our gov doesn't care about justice.

@blktom Год назад

Since the rich run the country, they can alter the laws to benefit them the most, which makes it damn near impossible for them to be held accountable for any of their actions or prosecuted for any real crimes... or serve any real punishment if they are found guilty. It is a real shit show at times.

@FuzzyLittleBastard Год назад

Yup. It's pretty well known that every president does incredibly illegal things. Trump just pushed that too far.

@russellstewart5414 Год назад

Nothing sticks to Teflon Don. Never going to ever see charges brought and he’s going to be re elected. Then the laws will change allowing for those who oppose him to be prosecuted and convicted

@blktom Год назад

@@russellstewart5414 Wow.... why bother having laws at that point if you just want to change laws willie nillie to imprison those who oppose what you don't like? I mean, that is straight up Stalin and Putin at that point. Better never be on the wrong side, comrade.

@syd5380 Год назад

“drawing the line between political action and bribery is very tough to do” that seems like a problem

@junit483 Год назад

Announcing candidacy to avoid prosecution should be a crime in and of itself.

@brianjensen5661 Год назад

That only works if you happen to be rich, white, cisgender, hetero, 'christian' and male. If you aren't all the above, you can announce a candidacy till you're blue in the face but it won't save you from an indictment. Edit: forgot to add 'hetero' to the list.

@nvelsen1975 Год назад

@@brianjensen5661 You seem to have missed the last 30 years of US history. By all means go read up. Black females have much higher privilege standards these days. If I take a brick and beat a 90+ year old nearly to death while screeching 'go back to your own country', in front of small children, I get life in prison, maybe a death sentence. Using racial and pussy privilege, BLM activist Laquisha Jones got 15 years and the 5 BLM Brothahs that helped her, got even less, for attempted first degree murder as a hatecrime. If I have 20 white people join me to block a road and we drag a black trucker out of his cab and proceed to lynch him while screaming "Kill him, kill him", we all get arrested and we all get 10+ years at least. When a black lynchmob did the exact same thing to a white trucker, only the victim was arrested and all the lynchmobbers were let go.

@a.b3203 Год назад

@@brianjensen5661 😂😂 did a 'rich, white, cisgender, 'Christian' male' hurt your feefees?

@IAsimov Год назад

@@brianjensen5661 I mean... Epstein made the 'hetero' thing debatable for rich people in the worst possible way.

@LordPadriac Год назад

@@IAsimov it only seems that way because you're mistaking Epstein's sexuality. He wasn't hetero; he was pedo.

@EXcentricSAM Год назад

It seems really ridiculous that we have to prove he did things we all saw him do, right in front of our faces repeatedly. All I'm saying is if I stole a candy bar from Walmart I would have to talk to police.

@nosuchthing8 Год назад

Exactly

@MousechrisTFM Год назад

No you wouldn't the police are not gonna waste their time on a random candy bar lmao what? Horrible example dude

@mealman0447 Год назад

@@MousechrisTFM i think we both understand the argument hes making tho

@theomegajuice8660 Год назад

He's also confessed in public multiple times

@appo9357 Год назад

@@MousechrisTFM. *the point* You

@Yammenkow Год назад

We've been here before. We all thought the last special counsel was going to nail him to the wall but it took forever and was ultimately toothless. The rich and powerful are simply given a pass on things that would send the rest of us to prison and it's really disheartening.

@dondragmer2412 Год назад

Partly thanks to Bill Barr. But Moeller doesn't get a pass for refusing to be more affirmative in speaking out during the hearing and in insisting on following that "tradition" of not recommending an indictment of 45.

@JVLeroy223 Год назад

They're trying so hard to get him on something, whatever there is possible. But maybe, just maybe, he didn't do anything wrong?..

@oldmanjinkinsskyrim737 Год назад

@@JVLeroy223 yup lol 😆

@Yammenkow Год назад

@@JVLeroy223 right, he probably did none of the crimes he openly brags about 😕

@andyfrench8660 Год назад

@@JVLeroy223 My policy is that if he'd actually done anything they could pin him for, they'd have gotten him by now. They're so desperate to find something, they impeached him twice, and yet none of it stuck. At this point, they're mostly just damaging their own credibility by continuing to pursue him, because anyone who didn't think he was guilty from the start is looking askance at this whole mess.

@seb-astian-design Год назад

Jack Smith looks like the hardcore antagonist in a crime thriller portrayed from the perspective of the perpetrator.

@pollykent2100 Год назад

"The special counsel is funded by the independent counsel appropriation...so Congress can't defund Jack Smith in this case." Thanks for that info. Empty G has been saying she would push Congress to do just that. Once again, she knows nothing, apparently.

@SugarandSarcasm Год назад

The state just wanted to export her, FAR away from them so she can’t get back. Personally, the middle of a forest would suffice better.

@Zomby_Woof Год назад

Garland, however, can defund him if he doesn't like where it's going, and can block any indictment. Garland declined to prosecute Trump over the Mueller investigation.

@michaellovely6601 Год назад

Marjorie Taylor Greene is terribly stupid.

@robinkelly1770 Год назад

Look up the Meides report. They issued information on this within hours of the appointment. Very informative. Nb also love this channel

@DumbAsh00 Год назад

What she wants is to use the Holman rule. Which allows Congresspropose amendments to appropriations bills that target specific programs or individuals. I really doubt this would happen tho lmfao

@lyndsaybrown8471 Год назад

I'll believe something will be done at the time it is done and not one second sooner.

@swyllikx Год назад

I also believe that things are what they are unless they're not.

@AlexanderMadolche Год назад

Same

@JargonMadjin Год назад

Lyndsay and Swyllikx showing off their inner zen

@alphanerd7221 Год назад

Something like what, searching his residence? Denying his security clearance? Disbarring his lawyer? Arresting his Lawyer?

@jc.1191 Год назад

Same. Otherwise, it's pure speculation.

@mattp422 Год назад

I’d love to see you explain the potential impact of Moore v. Harper. Seems to me this could be, without overstatement, the most important case that SCOTUS has ever heard.

@cajunboy67 Год назад

I think the middle three Justices (Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett) are going to flinch on this case. They really want to throw the outcome to the NC GOP, but in so doing they would destroy all future elections.

@JohnWarner-lu8rq Год назад

Both parties have been doing it for many decades, and it's legal under the Constitution.

@ericduey9556 Год назад

Adding the guitar riff for American Idiot when taking about the insurrectionist normies was a perfect touch, bravo sir, bravo.

@seanaugagnon6383 Год назад

I used to be an addict and had a problem with the law... Before that my opinion of lawyers was... Not that good. After having a public defender help me get into a free drug rehabilitation center instead of doing 6 months in jail. I have an appreciation of lawyers. Especially public defenders. Not all lawyers are lying money hungry unethical people. My lawyer seriously helped me.

@alphanerd7221 Год назад

lawyers are actually much better than average people. Their job holds them to a much higher ethical standard than most.

@alwaysdisputin9930 Год назад

@@alphanerd7221 Some are heroes, some are devilish. In UK, my opponent's lawyers abused me. I couldn't pay for a lawyer. They took unfair advantage e.g ambushed me with rules & cases in the courtroom. They're supposed to tell you in advance so that you have a fair amount of time to prepare a response.

@alphanerd7221 Год назад

@@alwaysdisputin9930 That sounds like BS.

@alwaysdisputin9930 Год назад

@@alphanerd7221 what do you mean?

@alphanerd7221 Год назад

@@alwaysdisputin9930 What I said.

@jlaakso1706 Год назад

We need some serious political and judicial system reform in this country.

@cesarbugarini499 Год назад

Crafted by the good clean politicians we have in congress?

@buca9696 Год назад

Who is gonna do that?

@finnanima2413 Год назад

Can you just imagine the Ace Attorney justice system?

@jamesburk8145 Год назад

Honestly, most of it isn't even that the law needs to be reformed. It's just straight up not being enforced. A lot needs to be overhauled but Trump and his cronies have been getting away with blatantly illegal actions under current law this whole time.

@miya6008 Год назад

@@cesarbugarini499 getting rid of the shitty people who shouldn’t hold any position of power is part of the goal of political reform.

@RevanFan Год назад

Love the use of "American Idiot" in the background when showing Greene and McCarthy haha.

@Mr.PeabodyTheSkeptic Год назад

The best legal arguement ever: There are reasons! Wow. Never would have guessed.

@samfinnell6070 Год назад

I still doubt they'd listen, he should really sell Trump-brand earmuffs with his trading cards!

@Seraphus87 Год назад

John Smith looks like the kind of guy who could just sit across from a suspect and stare at him, thereby causing the suspect to confess.

@michaelgreenwood3413 Год назад

So he's Garak? "His eyes! HIS EYES!"

@tails0420ify Год назад

@@michaelgreenwood3413 more like a Teal'c from SG1.

@hodaka1000 Год назад

All we've really seen from John alias "Jack" Smith are a couple of old still photos

@trevorprzepiora7926 Год назад

so everytime I've heard someone on youtube, cnn, legal experts, and any kind of social media say something along the lines of- "Bad news for trump, or trump is in trouble, or trump is going to be this or that" it never ends up happening.

@nosuchthing8 Год назад

In a few centuries, some one will find Trump guilty. They can dig up his corpse and put him on trial, like a crazy pope of old.

@bongibot1104 Год назад

That's life for like 99.9% of politicians. You would have to have a film of Trump punching 20 babies and saying "I am Donald Trump I love punching babies and commting war crimes" and even then lawyers would spend billions to somehow spin that into a 5 year sentence at worst. Likely would get out and people say either the babies deserved it or it's all fake

@patriciaharris9300 Год назад

Totally agree, they get our hopes up then a crash and burn. Teflon Don will always slide by....always.

@angelapalmer6782 Год назад

I know but it's actually happening now!!! The fat man has ran out of rope to hang himself with, Jack Smith is poised to kick out the chair!!

@tradeladder146 Год назад

True, will he ever end up behind Bars, sadly i doubt it.

@gnarlygnathan Год назад

I’m so grateful for these videos. It has to be exhausting to have to make them about Trump so often, but you’re providing so much important information and context to things that most of the major media outlets think we’re too dumb/lazy to understand, or are too dumb/lazy to understand themselves. There’s never been a more important time for citizens to have a basic understanding of the law. I’m not using hyperbole here when I say that what you do here is nothing short of patriotism.

@edpowers80525 Год назад

I’m totally getting hooked on LegalEagle-you’re making me a law geek! Keep up the great work.

@RiiDIi Год назад

Jack Smith looks intimidating enough that he could play his own part in an overly dramatic "based on a true story" movie of this Special Counsel story.

@Outside85 Год назад

He does have a bit 'Christopher Lee' hanging over him.

@TKUltra971 Год назад

Hahahah! well said!!

@wvu05 Год назад

@@Outside85 With Coach Beard vibes, too.

@kristipearce4819 Год назад

I was thinking the same thing… he looks hella intimidating.😮

@bunyipdragon9499 Год назад

He's one of the few that's still looks bafassed shaved and in a suit too

@mochapoke3100 Год назад

i'm so sick of hearin conservatives saying its " poliitically motivated" i mean literally everything is. and i swear i've ehard that " the timing is bad" for the last like four years, the timing will never be good. they just keep complaining

@utubepunk Год назад

Like it's ever stopped them. 🙄

@Miller_Time Год назад

They are just the victim in every scenario. It's sad

@andrewvc1527 Год назад

They do that for everything. Mass shooting happens? Okay, can we get gun control? No, its too soon, we need thots and payers! And then another shooting happens. Gun control now? No, more thots, more payers. And on and on.

@GeahkBurchill Год назад

As always, the SOFTEST of kid gloves and the gentlest possible handling of Donald Trump’s many crimes, proving that, once again, our justice system is not intended to hold the rich and powerful accountable in the slightest.

@dzanderallison Год назад

The building of a rocket or a nuclear bomb takes similar levels of care and precision, and looks like nothing from outside the process until the fatal moment.

@Hidakaku56 10 месяцев назад

Well yeah, they have to use kid gloves, have you seen the size of Trump's hand? Adult gloves would never fit him

@Nixeu42 7 месяцев назад

In Trump's case, I'm not sure id it's due to money, but rather the massive, cult-like following that has already tried to overthrow the government by force once. It includes more than a few actual mega-pastors who pretty much consider him...not quite the second coming of Jesus, but maybe Solomon or David. Combining religion and politics to that degree gets genuinely dangerous.

@majoryoshi Год назад

With how much Devon has covered Trump's various legal ventures, I'm shocked to find there isn't a dedicated Donald Trump playlist

@DudeWhoSaysDeez Год назад

Everyone must be held accountable for their actions, ESPECIALLY our leaders.

@grimarchangel Год назад

i heard that bit of Green Day's "American Idiot" playing behind the shaman and MTG, bravo sir.

@majide511 Год назад

That little bit from American Idiot at 3:32 is just... *chef's kiss*

@Bezaliel13 Год назад

Wait, one can avoid prosecution by entering an election? Shouldn't it be you cannot run in an election if you are under prosecution?

@piltonbadger9897 Год назад

"We can't indict a sitting president, it would be an international embarrassment!" President does irreparable damage to the country while committing multiple crimes, making the country an international embarrassment...

@inisipisTV Год назад

Doing that is called a Coup-d’etat. A real one, not the pseudo one DemocRats are saying about Jan. 6. If causing Irreparable damage and multiple crimes is your reason, why not have the Entire Biden Administration and the entire DemocRats lined up in on a wall already. You know how many times here in Asia are we slapping our face at the many Blunder and total Disasters your government is doing. We are laughing at you now America.

@piltonbadger9897 Год назад

@@inisipisTV I'm not American. You sound awfully angry at the Biden adminstration and suspiciously like an American Republican voter who is posing as somebody living in Asia for some reason. Seems a lot of effort for a youtube comment reply...

@thatjillgirl Год назад

I thought the problem with indicting a sitting president was that it was determined that nothing in the presidential pardoning rules says a president can't pardon himself. So if you convicted a president who still held his office, he could immediately just pardon himself to get out of the consequences. Thus you must first impeach the president and remove him from office before you can charge him criminally. It's a pretty stupid loophole.

@TheTTGibson Год назад

This is all very informative and interesting. It’s also very depressing, it feels like the justice department is constantly spinning it’s wheels

@imacmill Год назад

_it feels like the justice department is constantly spinning it's wheels_ If _feels_ like it? They ARE. It's all designed to keep tensions high until such point Dolt-45 is re-installed as supreme leader in 2024. America, Done.

@RobBCactive Год назад

Jack Smith has wrapped up the special master BS and sent loads of subpoenas, also filing for contempt of Trump's legal team over failure to find/return documents. If you look at Meidastouch or No Lie by Brian Tyler Cohen with Glenn Kirschner which covers progress

@SlimThrull Год назад

Any indictments that fall on Trump are going to have to be beyond bullet proof. If nothing else, Trump has shown he's perfectly able to drag out cases for great lengths of time. They are going to want to make any appeal be completely groundless. To do that they need everything on Trump to be beyond bulletproof.

@no_peace Год назад

They are two sides of the same coin. They can't prosecute each other

@no_peace Год назад

Unless Republicans decide they can use the prosecution

@BigGayIncorporated Год назад

I just wanna say I love the inclusion of the song American Idiot early on the video lol

@liamcullen3035 Год назад

Loved that little “WoOoOoOo” in the sponsor ad at the end 😂

@lukemccann8930 Год назад

Smiths headshots make him look like the grizzled retired priest who lost his faith, in act 3 of an exercism movie, the part where he's found it again and is about to go all "not today satan!"

@stasiaspade1169 Год назад

A real Bad Ass!

@alphanerd7221 Год назад

I'm going with Rasputin at the beginning of a biopic.

@TheKrazysexykool Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@marymcnabb4982 Год назад

You said that perfectly! My imagination said you nailed it. Write a book.

@PixelPi Год назад

Remember Merrick Garland's background, he was Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the entire reason he brought in an objective third party is to review the evidence because the DOJ has every intention of indicting Trump, and Garland want's to make sure it sticks this time and that none of the crap gets on their suits.

@warlordofbritannia Год назад

Yeah, I think Garland’s being extremely cautious rather than a coward or limp stick. Do it right, not fast.

@carlodave9 Год назад

Then why didn’t he do this two years ago?

@carlodave9 Год назад

@@warlordofbritannia That’s exactly what people were saying about Mueller. He did worse than nothing. He wasted almost two years knowing he wasn’t going to do anything. All theater.

@islandtrevor7254 Год назад

@@carlodave9 The video explains it at around 8 mins in.

@Jehty_ Год назад

@@carlodave9 because two years ago he hadn't collected and reviewed all the evidence. Due process takes time.

@bfitz5610 Год назад

You're right, that joke never does get old. It's a perfect joke. The best joke. Specialists told me they're amazed by that joke.

@starfishkol1155 Год назад

Recently found your channel and am binging your videos. Thanks for presenting your knowledge in a way even I can understand it

@anthonylocasto3554 Год назад

I REALLY appreciated the soft background playing "American Idiot"... That was a nice touch that made me laugh, thanks! 🤣👍

@Rawnblade13 Год назад

Sounds like the Public Integrities section is completely useless since you're investigating people who have the power to just stop you and throw out everything you do.

@candiman4243 Год назад

@@echoshatter Ah but then who makes sure they're not corrupt?

@Xerou Год назад

@@candiman4243 And thus the triangle becomes a circle of corruption and power abuse.

@michaelprinzi578 Год назад

Devon, I just wanted to know, I've been following your content for a couple of years now and I love your format and how you teach about the legal process. Thanks for all the great content you create (I follow you over on Nebula too!). Keep up the great work. I'm sure 2023 will give you plenty of great fodder for content, and I look forward to your take on things!

@daiakunin Год назад

That Grisham book reminded me of the 90s show Dark Justice. I would love to see Legal Eagle do a lawyer review of this show. It's classic 90s cheese: the main character is a Judge by day, and vigilante by night.

@randoliof Год назад

Love the shade thrown at MTG and Lil' Kev with the American Idiot riff playing in the background

@stefanfrankel8157 Год назад

And then Merrick Garland called me and said, "Sir, what you have done here is so incredible; no one has ever done anything like this before. So we are assigning you your own Special Prosecutor." Isn't that amazing? Never before in this great nation's history has there been such a special prosecutor. Imagine, I am so great and wonderful of a king that I get my own special prosecutor! [With apologies to Fedos. Just thought I'd fix your syntax and amplify it a little]

@tessat338 Год назад

"Uh, YES SIR! It's even BETTER than a Special Master!! Um, more important, and uh, more prestigious! Only TOP cases get a special prosecutor!"

@DarkTempler1 Год назад

Cant wait for the next video to see how you interpret and explain the 4 criminal charges referred to the DOJ. This will be good.

@stttttipa Год назад

As someone who has never been to USA, and only seldom follows US politics, it pretty much seems like every special counsel or investigative team in the end does absolutely nothing.

@JoeOvercoat Год назад

They have to make enough noise to make it look like they actually considered prosecuting someone who’s rich and or powerful. The façade is arguably more important to the people that maintain the façade then to the American public who know it’s a façade.

@billolsen4360 Год назад

Especially when there's nothing there.

@Caerere Год назад

Legal Eagle is the greatest legal youtuber. He is the most beautiful, the smartest, you know people call me to say this Legal Eagle guy is really special. A very stable genius. Tremendous.

@tiffanybernier476 Год назад

I see what you did there 😂

@arcaderdude Год назад

He's the greatest legal mind

@nosuchthing8 Год назад

It's amazing, Trump rolls out his ridiculous lines over and over. Is he hypnotizing people?

@WarpRulez Год назад

What you wrote there is a great example of what's colloquially called d... sucking. (I think you know what that 'd' stands for.)

@robertnett9793 Год назад

@@WarpRulez And what you wrote here, dear friend is colloquially called a 'WHOOOOOOSH'

@nickdesanto6119 Год назад

On Nixon's DOJ's resigning. Never understood why they resigned. If you want to block such unscrupulous action refuse to obey and keep the office. Resign and risk a cronie doing it anyway, stay and block any chance of it happening.

@reverse_engineered Год назад

As someone appointed to a position like that, it is your legal duty to act. The only way to refuse is to give up your position. It's the same as a board member of a corporation. When board members resign, it's because they aren't willing to do what they are told by their shareholders. I was on a board where two of us stepped down because we were told to violate the law by our membership and we weren't willing to do that.

@danield5223 Год назад

Loved that you played Green Day’s American Idiot while showing the rioters

@igor-yp1xv Год назад

I loled at the opening joke, it truly never gets old

@swang30 Год назад

The Special Counsel's Hague yearbook picture looks scary. I'd be scared if I was being prosecuted by someone that looks like he can chew up war criminals and mafioso and spit them out.

@Bubbles99718 Год назад

Yeah, so did Mueller. Look how that turned out

@misskitty933 Год назад

@@Bubbles99718 Trump was president during Muellers investigation and AG Barr h>trumps lapdog finally shut it down.

@thatguymark8381 Год назад

To me he looks like a Professor from the Durmstrang Institute (think TriWizard Tournament from Harry Potter)

@nommchompsky Год назад

@@Bubbles99718 The video actually goes over the ways Mueller's investigation was constrained and how Smith's very much is not. Edit: Also, Smith looks like Special Council Coach Beard

@Bubbles99718 Год назад

@@nommchompsky yeah and that was bs. Even Burr when asked about it said, "if Mueller thought there was indictable offenses he should have indicted."

@JerryBrower Год назад

What I'm hearing here is that if you are a politician, law doesn't apply to you and you will never get any punishment.

@ClutchMyPrimus1 Год назад

Hot damn I love your transitions! Best transitions into sponsors on RU-vid

@lindablue7494 Год назад

That was a mouthful. I really hope Special Counsel Jack Smith goes balls to the wall and takes the orange dumpster fire down once and for all. Stops his new attempt at running again and puts him in jail for the rest of his natural life. After the things that he has done and the way that no one else will stand up to him. Its horrific that he was even able to get in, in the first place. The Republicans need to pull their heads out of their asses and smarten up and start helping and not hindering things. Thanks for doing these videos. I have been interested in law for a long time and usually watch all of the shows about Lawyers, like Ally McBeal, the Good Wife, LA Law, and the most recent 9 seasons of Suits. All fascinating. I love how you explain it using the real laws and what the actual interpretation is, instead of how people misinterpret things and go on less factual and try to interpret it with out actually understanding what the actual intent or spirit of the law in question actually is. Especially since some of these laws haven't been updated regularly for hundreds of years? Once again Thanks for doing the videos, I have learned so much about US Politics and US Laws and how they are applied to real life instances, and what the consequences if any there could be. Great Job.

@JS-ry2xr Год назад

"It's always hard to determine whether it's political action or bribery." Political action IS bribery.

@Shat_Tastic Год назад

LOL Ted "I'm gonna back him again and hope he doesnt dis me this time".

@avpguy11 Год назад

I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing the image at 5:17 but thanks for sharing it anyway.

@thegreataggron Год назад

Oh lol, don't think im supposed to see this yet. A nice surprise when I clicked on the Playlist tho.

@PictureGame Год назад

@Bigcountry4415 Год назад

Considering the video was released 23 seconds ago your probably right.

@oliverlockler344 Год назад

My guy has an early access Pass

@babybop114 Год назад

@@Gg-ij7li what an obnoxious bot

@babybop114 Год назад

And you didn’t even say first

@spencers.7605 Год назад

So what I'm hearing is, this special counsel has been the Wrist Slapper In Charge for decades, going through the motions of legal prosecution with absolutely zero actual teeth or consequences. Par for the stupid, broken course.

@Avarren Год назад

That’s… not what you’re hearing.

@spencers.7605 Год назад

Did I miss an example of when he's actually prosecuted someone successfully and then that person either wasn't sentenced at all, or immediately pardoned?

@jeffredfern3744 Год назад

Jack Smith - A Legacy of Failure

@spencers.7605 Год назад

@@jeffredfern3744 I don't even think the guy himself is a failure, he's actually successfully prosecuted a bunch of people, it's just he has to leave the sentencing up to the system being sentenced, which of course protects itself.

@ralphstube Год назад

That's the case for the US political prosecutions. Fraud and bribary are very hard to prove. X does Y which benefits Z. X receives renumeration from Z. Simple? Unfortunately the prosecution need hard evidence that Z paid X in order to do Y. The Jan 6 is hard to prove on Trump, because it's mostly testimony. But the documents were there, Trump was told to return them, he refused. If a prosecution focuses on this, his money supply could end. If a Republican is elected President in two years time, Trump will likely be pardoned. But he is nothing without his suppliers of loans.

@jean-lucwalker3690 Год назад

That stock photo guy at the end is reading Dostoyevsky and Kafka, I'm impressed

@vyvyanbasterd4133 Год назад

When is the treason trial and can I buy tickets now?

@LooperEpic Год назад

Worry about the current president buddy

@vyvyanbasterd4133 Год назад

@@LooperEpic why did the current president tried to lead an insurrection against the United States based upon a lie? Did the current president take a nearly 20 million loan from North korea? Did the current president release 5,000 Taliban fighters and invite their treacherous terrorist leaders to camp david? I just need to know how you're going about this.

@michaeld1889 Год назад

Jack smith looks like the season 3 " take no prisioner, tragic backstory yet soft hearted lawyer" addition to a gritty melodramatic show about the government.

@danielriley7380 Год назад

Devin, I’d recommend watching “The Escape Artist” for a British equivalent to Grisham’s story. Stars the excellent David Tennant.

@JaelinBezel Год назад

David Tennant IS excellent!

@MyChannel773 Год назад

“You can’t nominate that guy, he’s been politicizing Washington!!” What a crime - he’s been politicizing politics

@RazorEye Год назад

Ok, the Green Day music playing in the background gave me a smile and made my day. Thank you good sir.

@kx7500 Год назад

If only everyone could risk the copyright claim

@adambarber100 Год назад

Sure, this time is going to be different. They're finally going to get him, for real, this time. Seriously. Really.

@hughbarton5743 Год назад

I don't think I have said this to you before (if I have, please forgive the redundancy), but I would like to thank you for not "dumbing this down"! I am certainly not an attorney, but I never ever feel like you are editing the story to match the supposed vacuity of your viewers. In my life in the world of commerce(thankfully retired), I had on numerous occasions faced lawyers who, apparently, figured if I didn't have a degree from a law school, I was some sort of nincompoop. Full disclosure: I would without hesitation consult with the various lawyers we paid handsomely to protect our legitimate rights, before jumping in to the fight. Further: the lawyers would invariably ask if they needed to appear to represent us. Fortunately, the vast majority of challenges we faced were so ludicrous that I was generally able to say: " We got this...call you if we need you.... Thanks again! Nice work, counselor!

@kylejensen2833 Год назад

@3:30 underscoring the section with Green Day's "American Idiot". Nice touch :)

@jimr9499 Год назад

Amazing that a legal explainer channel could get almost 100k views in an hour. It makes me feel some teeny tiny little glimmer of hope for society.

@kx7500 Год назад

I mean legal eagle is clearly well off, he invested a lot in high quality editors and presentation from the inception of the channel which helped.

@kx7500 Год назад

@Queen Zelina 👑 fair enough, not saying his videos are bad.

@ibahart3771 Год назад

Which society, though? What if 75,000 of those views are from non-Americans, laughing?

@kempolar9768 Год назад

@@ibahart3771 Whoops, hi there from New Zealand, the literal opposite side of the world.

@alphanerd7221 Год назад

@@kx7500 Honestly I liked it more when he was less flashy.

@jeraldehlert7903 Год назад

Whoever did the production work on this video did a great job! 🙂

@anoriolkoyt Год назад

I'm glad to hear that Jack Smith has beef with members on both sides of the aisle. This is sign of man who puts the law above all.

@dondragmer2412 Год назад

I hardly remembered Jack Smith from the days of prosecuting Serbian war criminals a couple of decades ago but now I am reminded of him and why he has shot to near the top of my list of most admired people on this planet.

@charscreamAA Год назад

Thou the amount of news about him is frustrating you have to admit it's better to hear about him so we know what he's doing the fact he went any amount of time unchecked is horrific

@theomegajuice8660 Год назад

It's depressing that people start forgetting how shitty he is when he's out of the limelight but it does seem like that's what happens

@soulknife20 Год назад

John Mulaney said it best. Trump is like a horse in a hospital.

@insertlastname Год назад

No new wars, jobs for everyone, minorities were being uplifted by a party instead of being thrown money(band aids) at. What a pos he was because of mean tweets

@penguinsmovies Год назад

The very fact he hasn't been handcuffed and sent to Guantanamo Bay for stealing some of the most highly sensitive government secrets is horrific if any normal person had done this it would have been thrown in a black van and never seen and heard from again. I know we have due process and all that but I mean come on.

@signalfire6691 Год назад

Notice how he hasn't had a rally in a bit? He can't afford them anymore - it takes money and staff to arrange the rallies and they've abandoned him. Possible also that the cities are starting to tell him NO when they're called up about hosting.

@johnsteiner3417 Год назад

Jack Smith looks like a Starfleet guy who brings Klingons and Romulans to justice.

@duncandownham4726 Год назад

"or when I am meant to be listening to family or loved ones" That kicks me square in the relatables

@frankharr9466 Год назад

O.K. I'm glad to know more of the details. Thank you.

@clocksurfer Год назад

Abundant evidence exists in the public domain to establish guilt. The question is not "Is Trump guilty?"; the question is "Is the rule of law still a thing?"

@946towguy2 Год назад

Guilty of doing things which are not illegal?

@clocksurfer Год назад

@946 Towguy I'm not sure I'm understanding your meaning. Are you suggesting that it's not illegal to commit Fraud, Sexual Assault, Mishandling/Destruction of Public Records and Classified Documents, Obstruction of Justice, Witness Tampering, Reckless Endangerment, Seditious Conspiracy, Insurrection, and Felony Murder?

@946towguy2 Год назад

@@clocksurfer You either have a vivid imagination or just like to say things which make no sense.

@clocksurfer Год назад

@946 Towguy Wrong. Trump committed several of these crimes in full view of the public, and has made several public statements in which he (inadvertently?) confessed to some of the crimes. In fact, with regard to sexual assault, he actually BRAGGED about doing it habitually.

@userI3I2 Год назад

@@946towguy2 it makes perfect sense. Seems like you need to work on your reading comprehension and stop maintaining a ridiculous level of wilful ignorance.

@EliotHochberg Год назад

One thing that confuses me as we’ve been having so much Justice Department activity in the last five years, why is the justice department under the executive branch and not under the judicial branch? After all, while you might consider it a conflict of interest to have attorneys present in cases to judges who are in the same department as them, it seems to me that that would be much less of a conflict of interest than having people who were appointed by the president to have as part of the responsibility the requirement to investigate the present. If the logic behind having justices be appointed for life to the Supreme Court is that they would then be less political, that doesn’t it also makes sense that the justice department should have nothing to do with Congress or the president once they are put in the office?

@ronaldking1054 Год назад

This is easy. It would require two separate branches to actually convict someone that way. That means there is a check and balance. If the judiciary investigated, then all questions on the investigations would be conflicts of interest.

@EliotHochberg Год назад

@@ronaldking1054 But that's essentially how things already work in local government. It's a matter of perspective, of course, but if Congress still controlled the purse (which it technically does, I believe; the Justice department is technically something Congress allows the executive branch to do, but doesn't have to), then there is no real conflict. Judges don't need to oversee the AG, and the Pres already appoints the judges. However, the current system allows the Pres to fire an AG, meaning they are not independent from the Pres. If the issue is the AG having influence over judges, I think that would be easy enough to legislate. Pres still appoints, but then the AG stays unless Congress removes. Thus, judges have no sway over AG, and AG no sway over judges, therefore no COI.

@LC-sc3en Год назад

@@EliotHochberg the head AG and some top positions are appointed by the president and approved by congress.. They can change every 4 years. Judges are appointed by the president and approved by congress as well but get a life term which means a single Executive can have influence over the outcomes of many trials for decades. As it is now, only the top positions are appointed by the president and a lot of people in the Justice Department are actually staffers that have served through multiple POTUS but can be fired by potus and loose their job when potus changes. If they get too political the next potus might not even let them serve in the DOJ at all. Judges can go ham after appointed and only congress can remove them. Which getting that many people to vote to remove is a very unlikely scenario. The judiciary is no more independent than the DOJ I would argue in many ways it is less so. Simply look at the current SCOTUS majority who one week says a 100 year precident is not historically rooted enough to be honored and the next says a 10 year precident is law of the land due to how long it has been in place. All based along political lines and there's nothing that anyone short of congress can do about it. Lastly, what incentive would a judge have to rule against their own? Cases brought by the judicial branch tried by the judicial branch is such a huge conflict of interest. It would be worse than putting politicians in charge of deciding district lines. The pipeline is lawyers to judge. Often based on how much success a lawyer has or how many cases they have trialed in front of what level judges. The nepotism would be out of control. People would become fodder for padding judicial resumes.

@HappyBeeGaming Год назад

@@LC-sc3enI think you meant to type 100 year “precedent”

@ronaldking1054 Год назад

@@EliotHochberg No, local government does not investigate and find judgments usually. There are still district courts that do not investigate a thing. There are courts that deal with probate or family issues. They have nothing to do with the police department. Next, you are claiming that the Executive Branch is biased towards the President, but there were entire issues when Trump decided to attack the various parts of the agencies based on independence. The problem is that if there is too much dependence, in theory, the legislative branch could then impeach. The problem is that the removal of officials has become politicized in the legislative branch. This was the same point raised about the judges by another commenter. Now, you are claiming that the judges have no sway over the AG, but in fact, they do, as they can rule against the AG or rule for the AG in terms of if they have a conflict. If such a conflict did occur, then the executive branch has no ability to deal with the conflict at all. The check on this is that the President indeed can be removed by the legislative branch, and this again has been eroded because the removal of officials has become politicized. In fact, the accepting of officials has become politicized.

@mitchcooper5132 Год назад

That whooshing sound when the text was popping up sounds exactly like my patio door opening, I nearly shit myself 😄

@amplewarrior1923 Год назад

your graphics team is awesome

@deltaflamestorm7400 Год назад

the fact you played "American Idiot" by Green Day is amazing

@casparcoaster1936 Год назад

You should have brought up Audible years ago dude, but, still, confirms (after ur shred of Established Titles) ur depth of character, for a guy running a great channel, many thanks!!

@CabinFever52 Год назад

You ROCK! Thanks for posting.

@brown_note4710 Год назад

If only giant billionaires could go to prisons like us plebians

@onanthebarbarian9883 Год назад

>>If only giant billionaires could go to prisons like us plebians

@raindogs451 Год назад

In English, “Out of the abundance of caution” means “Garland TOOK A YEAR practicing his punting skills. “

@paulminshall8793 Год назад

Considering the extreme penalties given to mere mortals, who violate document security rules (ITAR, for example), why is the one who holds the highest clearance not being given the highest penalties for violations? Is there a way of barring him from holding a clearance level?

@wmbtech Год назад

Key take away from this was the Special Counsel wouldn't have been appointed if Garland didn't plan to prosecute. Just consider the alternative where Garland dismisses the investigation. The appointment was to remove appearance of a politically motivated prosecution with a conflict of interest, now what would the other side say if he did nothing? They'd say Trump is vindicated, hooray, Garland saw the light! There's no conflict of interest there to deserve a Special Counsel. Garland plans to prosecute, let's hope that's Jack's recommendation.

@affordabledesertliving3487 Год назад

So in other words Smith recommends prosecutions but nothing ever happens because these people are too far up the food chain. Big surprise...

@michaeld1889 Год назад

Legal Eagle truly is must watch content the moment it posts.

@mrsatangto Год назад

"Drawing the line between political action and bribery is hard to do." That right there shows how broken our system is.

@edsiefker1301 Год назад

Appointing Smith as a Special Counsel was a great idea. Not because of any conflict of interest. But because someone competent is finally on the job.

@Geoffreyshadid Год назад

Keep on making these types of videos PLEASE! I love this info ❤

@OpenBiolabsGuy Год назад

Given the fact that other democracies have thrown their traitors in jail quickly, the fact that the US is not doing so in a timely manner sends a message as to how weak our democracy really is. Smith's track record doesn't fill me with confidence either.