DC Appeals Court UNANIMOUSLY Rules Donald Trump CAN Be Prosecuted
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
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A federal court of appeals has ruled that a former president can be criminally prosecuted for crimes that were committed while in office. A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has unanimously rejected Donald Trump's claims that he has absolute immunity from charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Glenn reviews some of the most important passages of the appellate court's opinion.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst, |
| 0:05.0 | Glenn Kircher. Bad news for Donald Trump as yet another court has denied his attempts to evade |
| 0:20.0 | criminal prosecution for election fraud. Glenn has the details of the ruling. |
| 0:24.0 | So friends, finally, we got an opinion, |
| 0:28.0 | a unanimous opinion from the DC Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, a president is not above the law. A |
| 0:37.0 | president is not a king. And the president, specifically former President Donald Trump, can be prosecuted |
| 0:48.4 | for his crimes. |
| 0:50.8 | Let's start with a new reporting and then I want to take on just three short |
| 0:55.8 | highlights from today's historic appellate court ruling. Let's start with the reporting from Politico headline |
| 1:05.4 | Trump is not immune from prosecution forbid to subvert the 20-20 election |
| 1:11.8 | Appeals Court rules and that article begins |
| 1:15.9 | former president Donald Trump and indeed any other former president may be prosecuted for alleged crimes they committed while in office |
| 1:25.8 | a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday. The unanimous 57 page decision from a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals |
| 1:37.3 | is a major win for Special Counsel Jack Smith who is seeking to put Trump on trial this year on federal felony charges |
| 1:47.1 | stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 1:51.6 | Trump quickly vowed an appeal, which could be at the Supreme Court by Monday. |
| 1:57.2 | This from the appellate court, |
| 1:59.3 | quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, |
| 2:01.8 | former President Trump has become Citizen Trump. |
| 2:05.7 | With all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant, the DC Circuit judges wrote, but any executive immunity that may have protected him |
| 2:16.7 | while he served as president no longer protects him against this prosecution. The ruling affirms US District Judge Tanya |
| 2:26.8 | Chutkin's historic conclusion that former presidents may be prosecuted for |
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