Trump warned by Jan. 6 investigator that internet rants won't 'stand up in a court of law'

Donald Trump has spent much of his time after his presidency unleashing all-caps rants on his personal social media site.

MSNBC's Alicia Menendez referred to it as "rage posting," which began on New Year's Day and was aimed at former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).

"Seems like someone is starting 2024 hangry," Cheney joked, referring to the combination of both hungry and angry. "[Trump] - you and your lawyers have had the J6 committee materials (linked below) plus the grand jury info & much more for months. Lying about the evidence in all cases won't change the facts. A public trial will show it all."

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Tim Heaphy, the former senior investigator on the House Select Committee that investigated the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, said Cheney co-chaired the committee with with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), and they released all of the documents, transcripts, videos, and more online before Congress shifted power to Republicans in 2023.

"There's been this narrative that the former president and others have put forth that there was something hidden or destroyed or not disclosed from the materials," said Heaphy. "Again, completely baseless. No piece of evidence was in any way hidden, or destroyed. The videotapes, that is the base of that argument, they were not archived, are just recordations of the transcripts, which are all not only archived but made public. It was very important to the Select Committee that we showed our work. That to rebut an argument that we took things out of context."

He encouraged anyone to look at the entirety of the interviews and judge for themselves. The information was uploaded to a permanent website on Thompson's congressional site.

"What litigants are going to do in these cases is point to facts," said Heaphy. "Facts matter. Facts decide cases. Facts still matter in this country. And a posting on Truth Social that is false or misleading is not going to stand up in a court of law when facts ultimately are adjudicated. He will have a chance in court to challenge all those facts. That's what the American system provides for everyone from a shoplifter to the former president of the United States."

The most significant part of the cases, he said, are the criminal ones because "the crucible of cross-examination confrontation has an opportunity to have more legitimacy when the same facts are found in that process. And maybe that changes people's minds in a way that a civil trial or congressional committee or reporting or other accounting of those same facts do not."

See his full comments in the video below or at the link here.

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