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.
opportunity to return to the white house in regain control of the executive branch, including the power to pardon himself. trump s legal team is seeking to indefinitely postpone the federal criminal trial in the classified documents case, citing trump s 2024 presidential campaign and possible matchup against president biden as reasons for the trial should be delayed. he is also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down distributor knee fani willis s investigation into whether trump and his allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in fact, in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigator to continue would cost 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, end quote. i spoke last night with the
the first case brought against the former president. a first piece of news was that manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, who is overseeing the stormy daniels case, he called called the scheduled grand jury, we don t know why he did that, and we will get some expert legal help breaking that down later this hour. for now, the bottom line is the no indictment in that case is happening today. that s number one. number two has to do with special counsel jack smith s investigation into whether trump took classified documents when he left the white house, and whether trump obstructed justice when the government tried to get those documents back. we got such a huge advance in that case today, we have been wondering how close they ve missed an indictment of their very own. and there is the shred of a chance that jack smith breaks history first. last night, the appeals court in d.c. gave trump s team until midnight to file a brief in the mar-a-lago case.