noticeably been trying to find a defense in the latter case, in the times they ve offered contradictory excuses to explain why it was the trump illegally retained government records, and seemingly obstructed federal authorities from retrieving this record for many months. if convicted in that case alone, it could produce a years-long prison sentence, and that is just one example of the legal peril the former president faces right now. and the classified documents investigation is in its early days. according to an abc news report this week, the special counsel s team recently informed a trump organization employee but they are a target in their investigation, which means that more indictments could be camille and the documents case. while trump cannot simply wish that away, there is one thing he can do to possibly evade accountability and even shut down the cases against him. all he has to do is become president again. and a new legal filing from trump s team this week signal
he s also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down district tierney fani willis s investigation into whether trump and its allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigation to continue with cause, quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his party s nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of, his fundamental constitutional rights. and i spoke last night with congressman, jamie raskin, and about these increasingly desperate looking moose on the part of the trump team. listen to what he told me. you can t prosecute him when he is president, because he s president. you can t prosecute him after he sees president, because he is running for president. you can t impeach and convict him, they argued. you can t use the impeachment process because, really, he should be tried, they say. use the criminal statutes. but you
he s also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down district tierney fani willis s investigation into whether trump and its allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigation to continue with cause, quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his party s nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of, his fundamental constitutional rights. and i spoke last night with congressman, jamie raskin, and about these increasingly desperate looking moose on the part of the trump team. listen to what he told me. you can t prosecute him when he is president, because he s president. you can t prosecute him after he sees president, because he is running for president. you can t impeach and convict him, they argued. you can t use the impeachment process because, really, he should be tried, they say. use the criminal statutes.
he knew that pence could not overturn the election. he knew it was improper descend arm people up to the capital in trying to score in the capital. that is the thing that is important. it is a very important point. i would say as a practitioner of good grandeur work it makes sense to put gerald kushner in the grand jury. lock him down with his testimony. ask him about the way they were making money based on all of this. who are we kidding? who is going to please jared kushner? think about how many people told trump he had lost the election. his own attorney general. all the reputable lawyers in the department of justice. all the reputable lawyers in the white house. who s cybersecurity chief. his campaign manager. the two companies that he hired to check to see if there was any fraud in the election and every judge that saw the case! right. exactly! so, we have kind of misplaced
the same thing here. he might have been convinced that he won the election. that does not excuse the attempts to create phony electors. that does not excuse the attempt to pressure the vice president. it certainly does not excuse his call to his mob to head up to the hill. the type of intent that you need here is much less than trump s recognition that he lost the election. it would be nice to have that information. it would be nice to have that evidence. it would certainly impress the jury. but it is not essential to prove trump skill. s nowhat is your sense of, it cynthia? this is an interesting thing. donald trump, whether he violently thought he won or lost the election, then did a whole lot of things that are, allegedly, outside of the law. possibly very dangerous. undermining democracy. how do you feel about that? i wholeheartedly agree. this discussion of, oh no. what did he say? it s ridiculous. the point is, he set up fake electors. he knew that that was unlawful.