we know at the center of this case is this tension. jack smith says i want a speedy trial. translation, i want to do this before the election. president trump and his lawyers have every incentive to try to delay this. it looks like they re going to try to schedule it for december. all of our armchair experts in d.c. say no way is this going to happen in december. but you have a long and successful history of trying cases in florida. what is your prediction in terms of when this actually goes to trial? i don t believe it will be tried before the general election of 2024. he doesn t have a lawyer yet. they ve got to get discovery. they re going to have pretrial motions. president trump has trials all over the country in different locations. you have to review the discovery and then you re going to have pretrial motions. there are going some motions, the attorney-client privilege was excoriated by the special counsel s office and the
not know. have you had to speak to investigators in recent months? me? no, not at all. and there are a lot of armchair experts that suggest there may be a new jersey grand jury. as someone that works on the case, do you think that there is going to be or has there been a grand jury new jersey? absolutely not. i have no information or knowledge about a grand jury indictment, but here s the thing. the things that allegedly happened in new jersey, you know, those two conversations, they were in the indictment in florida. so for him to go and do anything in new jersey at this point is just inviting a dismissal or things to be transferred down because you can t have an indictment down in florida that says this stuff happened in new jersey and then have a separate one in new jersey. it is all part of one under their theory, it is all part of one scheme, so it has to be in one indictment. it seems odd that the
illegal. you have bill barr as a potential witness saying yeah, i briefed the president that there were no suitcases of ballots. you also have the campaign, i remember testimony developed by the select committee that mr. stepien, who was running the trump campaign, had a memo written of all of the election conspiracies rudy was peddling that proved none of them were true. could the trump campaign manager and trump s attorney general become witnesses if the discovery process has to prove whether or not there were known falsities communicated about ruby and shea? absolutely. as you just stated, and we have all become armchair experts in defamation. you know, falsity is the key. the statements made have to have been false. and so that means that the plaintiffs are entitled to take discovery and entitled to obtain information, including through the testimony of people who might have that information, through the deposition process.