This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleagues Andrew McCarthy of National Review online and that is,

MacArthur of American greatness, about the pending sentencing of former President Trump in a New York

state court prosecuted by a Manhattan district attorney.

The question of appeals and the case being reviewed and perhaps disavowed.

And he answers immediately.

The question of immunity though is special.

And that is something that Judge, I'm told,

will rule on before the sentencing.

There's a sequencing here that's important to understand.

Right now, Andy speaks to the errors made in the original trial

and the likelihood of dismissal by the appellate court later.

Andrew McCarthy National Review online, the pending sentencing, the pending review of

immunity established by the Supreme Court.

All this later tonight.

I think there's probably eight or ten errors that could result in reversal in this case and they begin with some pretty profound

things that or errors I believe that happened even before the trial began.

But in the normal course of criminal proceedings, those things get appealed after

sentence has imposed when the whole case goes up to the appeals court. The difference between something

like immunity and the other thing I would think would come in this category would be

like double jeopardy. Those kinds of constitutional offenses go to the

propriety of having the court proceeding in the first place. So the offense is

not just to convict someone wrongly, it's actually to put them on trial

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