Trump’s incendiary Texas speech may have deepened his legal troubles, experts say
by Peter Stone in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5VVZF)
Promising pardons for insurrectionists and calling for protests if indicted could help make a case for obstruction of justice
Donald Trump's incendiary call at a Texas rally for his backers to ready massive protests against radical, vicious, racist prosecutors" could constitute obstruction of justice or other crimes and backfire legally on Trump, say former federal prosecutors.
Trump's barbed attack was seen as carping against separate federal and state investigations into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his real estate empire.
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