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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Jill Wine-Banks said the "best" crime to charge Trump with could be rebellion or <keyword id="11940345" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="insurrection" source="Orion">insurrection</keyword>.</li><li>Wine-Banks said the penalty for such an offense would bar Trump from ever holding office again.</li></ul>Jill Wine-Banks, a Watergate prosecutor, said charging former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> with rebellion or insurrection would prevent him from holding political office again.During an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWhPgPUtCfg&amp;t=96s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC appearance</a> on Friday, Wine-Banks was asked whether she thought Trump would at least be indicted for <keyword id="12982044" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="obstruction-of-justice" source="Orion">obstruction of justice</keyword>. She suggested that one of the "best" crimes to indict the former president of would be <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383#:~:text=Whoever%20incites%2C%20sets%20on%20foot,holding%20any%20office%20under%20the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebellion or insurrection, an offense under Title 18 of the US Code, Section 2383.</a>"I think it would be horrible not to act on what is now blatantly obvious to anyone who has watched the hearings," Wine-Banks said.She noted that <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384">unlike a seditious conspiracy charge</a>, a rebellion or insurrection charge would see the convicted offender barred from "ever holding federal office again."Wine-Banks called the penalty a "more important goal than jailing the former president." She added that Trump could face several other charges based on the testimonies presented at the January 6 hearings."There is, of course, <keyword id="13989564" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="obstruction-of-congress" source="Orion">obstruction of Congress</keyword>, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, so many things just based on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lunged-at-driver-while-demanding-to-be-taken-to-capitol-on-jan-6-2022-6">Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony</a>," Wine-Banks said. In April, Wine-Banks said she believed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/watergate-prosecutor-trumps-crimes-may-be-incalculably-worse-than-nixons-2022-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump's potentially criminal actions on January 6,2021, could be "incalculably worse" than those of former President Richard Nixon.</a>She has also joined figures like former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in commenting on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mick-mulvaney-real-threat-trump-january-6-evidence-obstruction-justice-2022-6"> criminal charges Trump could face.</a> Mulvaney, for one, has claimed that the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mick-mulvaney-real-threat-trump-january-6-evidence-obstruction-justice-2022-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 panel may have evidence that could lead to Trump being hit with obstruction of justice charges</a>.

Watergate prosecutor says slapping Trump with a charge of rebellion or insurrection could prevent him from ever holding office again

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="13537112" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="watergate" source="Orion">Watergate</keyword> prosecutor compared Donald <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump" source="Orion">Trump</keyword>'s phone-log gap to the gap in a <keyword id="13536068" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="richard-nixon" source="Orion">Richard Nixon</keyword> call.</li><li>She said Trump's gap might've hidden something more serious than what experts think Nixon omitted.</li></ul>A Watergate prosecutor on Saturday compared Donald Trump's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-call-logs-capitol-riot-7-hour-gap-report-2022-3">missing January 6, 2021, phone logs</a> to a minutes-long gap in one of Richard Nixon's calls related to the scandal that cost Nixon his presidency — and she concluded that Trump's case had the potential to be far more serious."It is often said that Nixon's cover-up was worse than his underlying crime. The reverse is potentially true for Trump," <a href="https://www.jillwinebanks.com/">Jill Wine-Banks</a> wrote in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trumps-phone-log-gap-worse-nixons-watergate-tape-rcna22619">an op-ed article published by NBC News</a>."Trump's records gap is 25 times as long as Nixon's, but his alleged crime could be incalculably worse," she concluded.Trump is under scrutiny over a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-trump-spoke-to-on-the-phone-on-day-of-january-6-riots-timeline-2022-3">gap of seven hours and 37 minutes</a> in the White House's call logs on the day of the Capitol riot. The absence of these call records has also prompted the House January 6 committee to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-call-logs-capitol-riot-7-hour-gap-report-2022-3">investigate what one unnamed lawmaker has called a "possible cover-up."</a>"A lot can be said in 457 minutes," Wine-Banks wrote. "Comparisons to the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watergate-tapes-infamous-185-minute-gap-nixons-secretarys/story?id=47926329">18.5-minute gap in a crucial President Richard Nixon recording</a> were immediately obvious to me."Wine-Banks, who cross-examined <a href="https://www.npr.org/2005/01/24/4463532/rose-mary-woods-devoted-nixon-secretary-dies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nixon's secretary</a> in 1973 about the gap, also observed she was "not the only to make that connection" between Trump and Nixon."First, Nixon's gap seems — based on my experience and other experts — to have been a deliberate erasure," she wrote. "Is Trump's? We don't have enough evidence to say for sure yet, but the missing chunk certainly appears deliberate."Wine-Banks said the missing information in Trump's case seemed "suspicious" and prompted a "series of urgent follow-up questions.""It is unlikely, even incredible, that no one called in to the president for 457 minutes during a crisis when he was in the White House," she wrote. "Even calls that go unanswered in the White House should be listed on official logs."Wine-Banks added that while the gap in Nixon's conversation was "about covering up a third-rate burglary," any calls that Trump made during the insurrection were notable given scrutiny about whether he broke any laws while trying to cling to power after losing to Joe Biden in the 2020 US election.The <keyword id="13537113" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="watergate-scandal" source="Orion">Watergate scandal</keyword> centered on the Nixon administration's efforts to cover up its involvement in a 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in Washington, DC. The scandal led to Nixon's resignation from the presidency in August 1974.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/parallels-between-watergate-trump-white-house-mueller-russia-nixon-2018-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Parallels were often drawn</a> between Watergate and the numerous scandals that plagued the White House during Trump's presidency.<iframe src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/qqMgo16W-gFnR6QwM.html" width="100%" height="100%" style="position:absolute;" title="VIDEO: Trump voters explain why they want him back"></iframe>

A Watergate prosecutor says the 457-minute gap in Trump's White House call logs could be masking 'incalculably worse' behavior than Nixon's

<img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5964571cd9fccd42008b57df-1920/screen%20shot%202017-07-10%20at%2094129%20pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2017 07 10 at 9.41.29 PM" /><a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/884602036398018562">Screenshot via Twitter</a>Former assistant Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks.Former assistant Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks drew a clear line on Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer, after a bombshell <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-russia-email-candidacy.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Times report</a> on Monday revealed that he was told in an email that the information he was receiving was part of a Russian strategy to assist then-candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign."This is an astounding thing," said Wine-Banks on MSNBC. "It is collusion with an foreign adversary if they were working together to get the information from the Russian government."The Times' report cited three officials familiar with the email that was sent by music publicist <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-rob-goldstone-donald-trump-jr-russia-2017-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rob Goldstone</a>, who represented the son of a wealthy Azerbaijani-Russian developer and has ties to the Trump family. The Times' sources alleged Goldstone's email demonstrated that Russia was the source of the information, which was supposed to have been damaging to then-candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.Wine-Banks also hinted that the latest revelation would be looked at by special counsel Robert Mueller, who was appointed by the Justice Department to oversee the investigation into allegations of Russian involvement during the 2016 US presidential election: "We have, for sure, more evidence for Mr. Mueller to look at and get the details of," said Banks."And that's what this looks like, it looks like clear proof of collusion," Wine-Banks said.<h2>Watch the clip here:</h2><blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en">"It looks like clear proof of collusion." -Fmr. Asst. Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks on the NYT report <a href="https://t.co/9FhR76AtuR">pic.twitter.com/9FhR76AtuR</a>- Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/884602036398018562">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-met-russian-lawyer-paul-manafort-jared-kushner-adoption-kellyanne-conway-2017-7">ABC calls out Kellyanne Conway over Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer after previously denying any contact with Russians</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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A swanky European social club where members pay thousands to store wine in speakeasy-like lounges is opening its first stateside location in DC — take a look inside

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Watergate prosecutor says slapping Trump with a charge of rebellion or insurrection could prevent him from ever holding office again

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A Watergate prosecutor says the 457-minute gap in Trump's White House call logs could be masking 'incalculably worse' behavior than Nixon's

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'IT IS COLLUSION': Watergate special prosecutor draws the line after Trump Jr.'s email revelation

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