Jack Smith Pushes Back on 2026 Trial Date
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
Crossover Media Group
4.9 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Donald Trump's lawyers made an absurd request of Judge Tanya Chutkan, asking her to put off Trump's DC trial for attempting to overturn the results of the presidential election until April 2026.
Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team of federal prosecutors filed their reply, and they debunked and/or put in accurate context the ridiculous claims Trump's lawyers dumped into their court filing.
In reading Smith's 6-page court filing, it becomes crystal clear that, in Smith and his team, we the people have a fierce advocate for a speedy trial, for the rule of law, and for the pursuit of justice.
Then Glenn's next topic is about one of Trump's employees.
The world of Trump is crumbling. Many of the witnesses who could incriminate Donald Trump are being represented by Trump world attorneys: lawyers being paid with Trump PAC money. One such lawyer, Stanley Woodward, was representing a witness named Yuscil Taveras, the former IT Director at Mar-a-Lago. Woodward also represents Trump's co-defendant Walt Nauta.
Taveras testified before the grand jury and, according the a court filing by Special Counsel Jack Smith, Taveras lied, with those lies having the effect of protecting Nauta and Trump. This represents a clear conflict of interest for attorney Woodward, as one of Woodward's clients committed crimes to protect another of Woodward's clients. Accordingly, Jack Smith filed a motion to get a conflict free attorney appointed to represent Taveras. Once Taveras had a lawyer who was zealously and ethically representing HIS interests, he retracted his lies and told the truth, implicating/incriminating Nauta and Trump.
This podcast explores all these issues and highlights the importance of the 6th Amendment's guarantee of not only counsel but conflict-free counsel.
For our Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit:
https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkir...
Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters, with former Federal Prosecutor and MSNBC analyst, |
| 0:05.0 | Glenn Kertzner. |
| 0:15.6 | In a new court filing, special counsel Jack Smith is pushing back against Trump's proposal |
| 0:20.7 | to schedule a trial date three years in the future for his federal election interference case. |
| 0:25.9 | Glenn says an innocent person would want to clear his name and push for an immediate trial. |
| 0:32.4 | So friends, you probably heard the absurd request by Donald Trump's lawyers to push his trial |
| 0:39.8 | in Washington, DC, you know, the one for trying to criminally overturn the results of a presidential |
| 0:47.0 | election. They try to push that trial two and a half to three years down the road. |
| 0:53.6 | All the while, Donald Trump yelling and screaming and posting that he's completely innocent |
| 0:59.1 | and he will be fully exonerated at trial. But I don't want to go to trial for about |
| 1:05.6 | three years. If you're innocent and you will be fully exonerated at trial, you want to go to trial |
| 1:13.6 | tomorrow. If not yesterday, well, now special counsel Jack Smith is pushing back. |
| 1:22.4 | Let's start with the new reporting, this from the Washington Post. |
| 1:26.8 | Headline Justice Department pushes back against Trump's bid for a 2026 trial in DC. |
| 1:35.5 | And that article begins the Justice Department pushed back on former President Donald Trump's claims |
| 1:41.6 | that he cannot be ready to go to trial in January on charges that he illegally sought to subvert |
| 1:48.5 | the results of the 2020 election. A trial in DC federal court in April, 2026, which Trump's |
| 1:57.5 | attorneys requested, quote, would deny the public its right to a speedy trial, closed, quote, |
| 2:05.6 | attorneys working for special counsel Jack Smith wrote in Monday's filing. In arguing for |
| 2:12.5 | it's the prosecutions preferred January 2nd, 2024 date, the prosecutors said that they do not intend |
| 2:21.4 | to use classified information against Trump in this case. US District Judge Tonya Chutkin |
| 2:28.2 | is expected to set a trial date at a hearing August 28th. If prosecutors get their way, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crossover Media Group, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Crossover Media Group and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.