Fear of Trump 2024 Run is Driving Jan. 6 Committee’s Potential Indictment of Former President: Defense Attorney

A criminal defense attorney who is defending five people charged with crimes related to the events of Jan. 6 told the Epoch Times that no matter what the House Jan. 6 Committee does in relation to a potential criminal referral for former President Donald Trump, it won’t stop Trump from running for reelection.

“The Jan. 6th Committee will not stop President Trump from running again, no matter what it does,” predicted attorney Joseph McBride of the McBride Law Firm in New York City.

“No matter how hard it tries, it will never, ever succeed, because there is no nexus between President Trump and the violence that occurred at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,” McBride added.

Protesters are seen at rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) ‘GITMO’ for Jan. 6 Prisoners

McBride had previously charged that the Jan. 6 defendants were being mistreated while in jail, calling the prison where defendants are detained “DC-GITMO,” in reference to the notorious facility the United States keeps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where foreign terrorists—known as enemy combatants—are kept, without rights afforded to American citizens.

In October of last year, a federal judge agreed with McBride, after a prisoner represented by the attorney was left waiting for over four months to have surgery to repair a broken wrist he sustained while being arrested.

“It’s more than just inept and bureaucratic shuffling of papers,” said U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth at the hearing where he noted bad faith amongst prison officials saying that he had to threaten them with contempt charges before the prisoner received basic medical care after the judge had ordered it, local media reported. Judge Lamberth found two senior D.C. Department of Corrections officials in civil contempt over the months-long delay

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