Former US attorney and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade slammed former President Donald Trump's latest fundraising e-mail, in which he claimed that he was "tortured" in an Atlanta jail after he was indicted along with 18 of his MAGA allies over their efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for October 4, and according to Fox 5 Atlanta, the appellate court is "not required to issue a ruling until mid-March 2025."
Speaking to McQuade, MSNBC's Joy Reid said, "I want to put up Trump's latest fundraising e-mail. He is claiming, 'They tortured me in the Fulton County jail and took my mugshot,' in all caps. Of course, they're supposed to get a mugshot. 'So guess what, I put it on a mug for the whole world to see.'"
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Fox 5 Atlanta noted the former president "has used the mugshot on various merchandise, including coffee mugs, T-shirts, koozies, and bumper stickers," and "an email sent out in May pushed to sell more of the 'limited edition' coffee mugs."
McQuade said, "Well, this is incredibly reckless conduct. To say that he was tortured. I mean, does he mean that figuratively? I'm sure he doesn't mean he was physically tortured. There is absolutely no basis in fact for that. And it's so reckless because he knows that there are people out there who will hear that as a call to action."
The former US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan added, "Just as the Proud Boys heard his comment as a call to action. Just as when he falsely claimed that the FBI had planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago during the search — someone heard that as a call to action, attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati the next day with an assault weapon, and was killed later that day in a stand-off with police. It's incredibly reckless to use this kind of rhetoric, and he has to know that."
"It is inviting vigilante violence, and it is making our country more dangerous," McQuade emphasized.
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