Fox News Analysts Call Testimony From Republicans Pressured By Trump ‘Powerful’: ‘Shows His Unfitness’ and Suggests He ‘May be Guilty of a Crime’

Andy McCarthy of the National Review weighed in on former President Donald Trump’s legal exposure during Tuesday’s Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing.

In a segment with Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley and anchors John Roberts and Anita Vogel, McCarthy concluded that the committee presented evidence that Trump is unfit to serve as president and “may be guilty of a crime.”

Roberts began the conversation by asking Turley if more Republicans were sitting on the committee how the proceedings might be different.

“Well, I think that they were absolutely right about how having the opposing side, not on the riot itself or the elections, but just having questioning from the other side of the aisle would have added greater credibility and I don’t think it would have undermined this powerful testimony,” Turley responded.

“These are respected Republicans like the speaker of the Arizona House. And some of this was extraordinarily compelling, you know,” Turley continued, referencing Rep. Rusty Bower’s testimony, which had ended just before their conversation.

Turley praised Bowers and noted his recounting of the threats he faced “was really authentic and it was really compelling, and I think people need to really wonder about what they’re doing when they treat these figures like they are not human beings.”

Vogel then asked McCarthy about the committee’s end goals regarding Trump.

“Seems as though the goal is to gather this evidence and perhaps present it to the Department of Justice to see if there is a crime here, that President Trump committed,” Vogel said, adding, “And in his opening statement, Representative Adam Schiff named a crime. He said what the president did was conspiracy to defraud the United States. Is that the crime they are looking to charge him with?”

“No, I don’t think so, I think the most plausible crime is obstruction of Congress,” McCarthy replied.

“They are relying heavily on the opinion of a federal district judge in California, David Carter, a Clinton appointee who once ran for public office as a Democrat, a lot of bombastic rhetoric in that opinion, not surprising they are relying on it,” he added.

“What I would just say is that if you had a different perspective being presented here, I don’t think that would be very helpful to President Trump, per se, because the evidence pretty clearly shows his unfitness,” McCarthy argued, adding:

It even suggests that he may be guilty of a crime, maybe, maybe not, there are arguments on both sides, but I would highlight here is the plausible gap, a scheme that attacked every tier of government versus how likely it was to succeed.

I think what the committee is showing our presidential elections are so diffuse, the authority is so extensively spread out between the federal and state governments that there was no way that he could have pulled this off ever.

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