gs. I think this is the key to his comeback. And I think that McCarthy not participating in the long run is going to look like one of the smartest political plays of all times. Because imagine if the Republicans had participated, I mean in a meaningful way, not Kinzinger and Cheney. If they had participated it would look like they had to defend themselves. What does it look like when you don't even bother to defend yourself? It looks like you didn't need to.

Yeah one of the baller plays that your defense attorney can do is to not present a case in rebuttal. That's like a pretty baller move if you get away with it. Basically the move is well you just watched the entire prosecution and they didn't have anything. I'm not going to waste your time ladies and gentlemen of the jury given that right in front of you you saw that there was no case. I don't need to present a case that there's no case because the prosecution just did it. They just did my work for me. All of the discovery, all of their testimony goes to the innocence of my client. And so with your respect and with your permission ladies and gentlemen of the jury I'd like to leave this to your decision making. I think you've seen enough. There's nothing I can add to this. The case is over.

And in effect that's what McCarthy did. Now I don't know if that was his intention or what forces were operating on him but I'll tell you this. Probably it had to do with Trump more than McCarthy. Am I right? Do you think McCarthy made that decision himself or do you think it was Trump? And if Trump made the decision to not have a defense and he pulled this off it's the play of the year. I don't know. It's premature. I don't know that Trump was behind it and I don't know that that's the outcome exactly yet but it looks like it at this point. It looks like he took a very high risk play not defending himself and it worked perfectly because there wasn't anything. There was no evidence of his crime.

Now Trump is the only person who could have known that play would work because he's the only person who knows exactly what he did and did not do. Nobody else knew. Even the people closest to Trump don't know every conversation he's ever had. You know even though I joke that obviously Don Jr. would have to be in on a coup, even Don Jr. doesn't know what Trump is doing all day long, who he talks to, what calls him. But nobody knows that. There's literally one person in the world who could have known that not putting on a defense would work. Only the person who knew he didn't do anything wrong. He's the only person who could have known that for sure. And I think this was his play and I think it worked. It looks like it worked.

Now of course half the country will say it didn't work and he's been proven guilty because that's the way it works you know. But it looks like it worked. It looks like it worked. And once again you'll see that the things have gotten so bad in terms of the gaslighting in this country that we won't know the difference between the thing and the opposite of the thing. We are observing in real time that there's no evidence for the allegations of a planned insurrection. We're seeing it right in front of us. But half of the country will literally look at the same thing you're looking at and say I saw plenty of evidence.

And so I would offer y