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Trump is Reportedly Having a ‘Meltdown’ at Mar-a-Lago Over Potential J6 Criminal Charges

He's freaking out, and with good reason.

Hugo Lowell, a reporter with the Guardian, told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday that it was increasingly likely that Donald Trump would face some kind of criminal charges for his involvement in the January 6th riots at the US Capitol. Lowell was the first to reveal a phone call Trump made to the Willard Hotel on January 5th, where his allies Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani were strategizing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win in 2020.

It is a crime to impede Congress — a crime that many of the rioters have already been charged with. Trump could very well be charged with the same thing, for the very reason that Lowell laid out:

According to sources, he instructed his operatives the find ways to stop the certification from taking place at all at the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. If you speak to Trump’s allies, this is not a big deal — he was just trying to find ways to delay certification and find another day, but I always thought this was a really disingenuous characterization because, either way, through action or inaction, he managed to get the certification stopped, and the Capitol was attacked and now it’s going to loom large in the committee’s investigation.

So even if Trump weren’t found to have been personally responsible for the attack on the Capitol by his supporters, the possibility that he could see the inside of a jail cell is still greater than zero.

It’s no small matter, either. The evidence of Trump’s involvement — as well as the scale of the operation that he had going on — is huge. Lowell expounded:

They’re still looking at Bannon and they’re still looking at Giuliani and Eastman. These are the guys at the Willard that Trump called up January 5 and sought advice. There were multiple war rooms. There is one with Eastman, Giuliani and Bannon and there was a separate one is where people like Flynn and Roger Stone and Alex Jones… There was, like, a massive operation happening at the Willard.

But the real candle on the cake that Lowell served on the show was his characterization of Trump’s reaction.

Trump is in a bit of a meltdown, from what we understand, down in Mar-A-Lago.

We all know what his meltdowns look like.

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