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The John Batchelor Show

2/2: SCOTUS: Trials of Trump. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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2/2: SCOTUS: Trials of Trump.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelors with my colleagues Andrew McCarthy and Thaddeus

0:07.0

McCotter, the trials of Donald Trump leading to the election of 2024.

0:12.0

Jack Smith, the prosecutor. leading to the election of 2024.

0:12.6

Jack Smith, the prosecutor, special counsel,

0:16.9

has two of these trials.

0:18.6

One about January 6 in some fashion.

0:21.4

And another is about documents at Marilago in some fashion. And another is about documents at Maralago in some fashion. The question

0:26.5

is where are, where is the prosecution? It doesn't exist. There's no trial. Maybe there's a trial afterwards, maybe not.

0:35.0

Again, Andy, was this meant as a political maneuver and there was an indifference to conviction

0:42.1

or even credibility.

0:44.2

Yeah, I think the what was driving this was election day and the hope was that

0:50.6

by this point in the campaign you would have trials against Trump in very high profile

0:58.4

intensively covered courtrooms where day-to-day a lot of incriminating evidence about Trump would come out and be

1:06.8

trumpeted in a very spectacular way and that they would at least get one or two convictions

1:12.3

of him by now and instead what

1:16.1

happened is two-fold. You just mentioned the two Jack Smith cases. The

1:20.4

Florida case does not even exist anymore because Judge Aline Cannon threw it out on the basis of the unconstitutionality of Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel.

1:36.3

The Justice Department is appealing that, which I find to be odd, not that they think that

1:41.6

they should appeal, but the defect that

1:45.5

Eileen Cannon, the judge, identified as something that could easily have been

1:50.1

cured. All that would have had to happen would be Attorney General Garland should

1:55.3

transfer Smith under the direction of the Biden appointed U.S. attorney in Florida and you can get that case up and running again tomorrow because that

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