A former Watergate prosecutor said Saturday that once a federal appellate court rules in the weeks ahead that failed former president Donald Trump doesn’t have immunity from his alleged criminal actions while in the White House, the Donald is “on the way to the big house.”
Nick Akerman told MSNBC host Katie Phang, “There is no way a president can achieve absolute immunity in the criminal sphere.”
Asked specifically about the immunity issue currently before three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Akerman mocked the arguments made by Trump’s legal team.
“This is something that they made up out of whole cloth. It really has no basis in the Constitution, it has no basis in any kind of law that is in effect in this country — it just isn’t there. They made it up and there is no way that this is ever going to be affirmed by the circuit court.”
Does that mean that Trump’s March 4 trial on charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election is going to be held as planned?
“It’s pretty clear what the law is. What is really at stake here is getting this trial that is scheduled for March 4th back on track, because the minute that Donald Trump is in the dock, the jury a sworn in — he is gone.”
“He’s going to be convicted and be on his way to the big house,” he added. “That is what he is concerned about. His only legal defense here, it’s not on the facts, it’s not on the law, it is on delay.”
Trump’s day before the bar of American justice is long overdue. Let’s hope the courts agree so we can have a trial and verdict before the election in November. Then the voters can make a fully informed decision.
