Leo Terrell, an attorney and Fox News Contributor, has some bad news for Alec Baldwin now that the DA investigating his case has decided to charge him criminally. What is that bad news? That the interview he did with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is going to come back to haunt him.
Terrell said as much when speaking on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus” on Thursday, saying “One of the biggest mistakes Alec Baldwin made was to go on George Stephanopoulos’ program and say he didn’t pull the trigger. That was a lie. I guarantee you that’s going to come back to haunt him.”
It was in that interview that Baldwin said that he was not responsible, telling Stephanopoulos that “Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who it is, but it’s not me. Honest to God, if I thought I was responsible I might have killed myself. And I don’t say that lightly.”
Then, adding to that, Baldwin went on to say that he didn’t pull the trigger, saying “Well, she’s laying there and I go, ‘Did she get hit by wadding? Was there a blank? Sometimes those blank rounds have a wadding inside that packs, it’s like a cloth that packs the gunpowder in. Sometimes wadding comes out, it can hit people, and it could feel like a little bit of a poke. But no one could understand. Did she have a heart attack? Because remember the idea that someone put a live bullet in the gun was not even in reality. I never pulled the trigger. No, no, no. You would never do that.”
So that’s the line about the trigger to which Terrell was referring.
Fox News Digital, reporting on what else Terrell had to say about Baldwin and his case, reports that:
Terrell said Baldwin and the set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed both had an “affirmative duty” to inspect the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and is the reason their conduct has risen to a level beyond simple negligence. The two were charged with involuntary manslaughter on Thursday in the deadly incident.
Terrell also asserted that the Gutierrez-Reed cannot escape her “sky-high” duty to collect and handle weapons on the movie and ensure the safety of cast and crew members.
Terrell added that both the Gutierrez-Reed and Baldwin had to be charged together, not one or the other, and predicted a legal battle between the two defendants over who was ultimately responsible for Hutchins’ death.
After the charges were announced yesterday, Baldwin and his lawyer went absolutely ballistic, with his lawyer releasing a statement about the charges and vowing to fight them, saying:
“This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.”
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