2/2: #DOJ: Jack Smith Forum-shopping in DC and Florida. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
@Batchelorshow
2/2: #DOJ: Jack Smith Forum-shopping in DC and Florida. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/complications-mount-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/my-take-on-trumps-take-on-me/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Vatchel with my colleagues, American Greatnesses. That |
| 0:09.9 | is Makatter and Andrew McCarthy of the National Review Online discussing the serial cases directed |
| 0:18.3 | against the former president, Mr. Trump, by special counsel, Jack Smith. And we believe |
| 0:24.8 | there's more to come, perhaps in Georgia, we're told, but I wait for the facts. And there |
| 0:30.0 | was a previous prosecution announced alleged prosecution announced in New York. Right now |
| 0:35.3 | we're concentrating on the Florida case and the Washington case. And what is forum shopping? |
| 0:41.6 | And how does it confuse everything here? |
| 0:45.5 | Forum shopping, John, is when a litigant seeks to bring his case before a court where in |
| 0:55.7 | a jurisdiction where the litigant believes the rulings will be favorable to him. That's |
| 1:02.3 | the reason he's bringing the case. For example, a lot of corporate litigation happens down |
| 1:10.7 | in Delaware. And that's because the laws are more favorable toward corporations in |
| 1:17.4 | Delaware than they are in a lot of places, which is why so many of the companies incorporate |
| 1:21.8 | down there. Similarly, what the Justice Department under Biden has done is basically planted |
| 1:30.1 | slag in terms of its investigations of Trump in Washington, D.C. where the court there |
| 1:36.3 | has been very favorable to the government in terms of ruling against Trump on various |
| 1:42.1 | things of importance. And where pretty significant sentences have been meted out against the |
| 1:47.7 | Capitol riot defendants of which there are about 1,100 that have been charged by the |
| 1:52.8 | Justice Department. And it becomes an issue because the main case against Donald Trump |
| 1:59.1 | until very recently has been the Mar-a-Lago documents case. And all of that, everything |
| 2:04.8 | of importance that happened in that case happened in the state of Florida. So the question |
| 2:09.6 | becomes, and I think it will be a big question in the litigation of that case, how come |
| 2:15.4 | the government is investigating a Florida case from Washington? And the answer seems to |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

