chesebro was asking for a speedy trial. do you personally want this trial to happen sooner or later? let me tell you what we re going to do. eastman is in a very different from position from every other defendant, in that he was acting as a lawyer giving legal advice. he was not part of a conspiracy, assuming there was even a conspiracy. we will move to sever his case from the others, which means we we ll be tried alone. we believe the trial of eastman alone would take about three weeks. it s a very simple case. we expect to win it in three weeks, and we d like to have a speedy trial that is we d like him to be tried right away. it will take three weeks and the whole nightmare will be over for
of the georgia indictment of donald trump. mr. trump s motorcade arrived at the newark new jersey airport a few minutes ago. pretty soon he will be wheels up, flying privately to atlanta, before surrendering at the fulton county jail. one of his co-defendants is a gentleman named john eastman, an attorney. his attorney harvey silverglade joins us now. thank you for joining us. i want to get your reaction to the trial start day of october 23rd. what do you make of that? it s never going to happen. what do you think would be a more reasonable start date? i would say this case will be start trial anywhere from 18 to 24 months from now. another co-conspirator, ken
mcdaniel, the rnc chair, said, he introduced me to a gentleman named john eastman. that was trump lawyer john eastman, the coup mastermind. he had the memo, he wrote it down. the panel asked about that. the response was that trump literally hands the ball, turns the call over to eastman, who says the rnc could help gather these what they called contingent electors. notice how the lawyers are a little more careful. they don t just say lie, they say contingent, alternate. quote, in case of any legal challenges are ongoing change the result. trump on the phone talked about electors, false or fraudulent electors. jack submit is active. he has a lot more than even the committee has. he has more than these leaks we re getting on a condition basis. he s clearly looking at the elector plot because it has emerged as one of the ways that they wanted, inside the white house and with their allies at rnc, with states, they wanted to create not actual factual
that donald trump won a state, in that case arizona, that he lost. welcome to both our guests. prosecutor nick ackerman, what is the significance of what jack smith is doing on this front? well, i think it s clear that he at this point is looking to bring a case on this. it seems to me where he s reaching, though, is to john eastman, to donald trump, to possibly rudy giuliani. he s looking at the people that organized the scheme. i think part of the problem with the fake electors themselves is that a lot of them were actually told the same thing that boris epstein told you. that they were doing this as a contingency, thinking that they had court cases going on, if they won the court case, then they could use it much the way it was done in the nixon/kennedy case in hawaii in 1960. so i think what they re doing i ll let you finish. nick, i want to underscore your point. in fairness to them, early
they wanted to use to sabotage president-elect biden s opportunity to be certified and move into the oval office. this is real stuff. when you get out to the end of the arrow, you re talking about potential fraud. which is chargeable. remember, i gave credit to all the different ways we kept learning about this, because when you woke up on january 7th, most of the selector fraud stuff wasn t in the public. the military plot to try to get them to take voting machines, like some banana republic that wasn t public. a lot of this came out through the january 6th committee, and they drew the line back to trump. the electors from these battleground states signed documents falsely asserting they were the, quote, duly elected electors from their state and submitted them to the national archives and to vice president pence. donald trump had a direct and personal role in this effort, as did rudy giuliani, as did john eastman. in other words, the same people