Jack Smith has a path to cripple Donald Trump before the election: ex-U.S. attorney
With Donald Trump having been thrown a lifeline by the conservative-majority Supreme Court with its controversial presidential immunity ruling, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade stated there is still a path forward for special counsel Jack Smith to make a dent in the former president's drive to return to the Oval Office.
Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Vance predicted there is little chance that Trump will be tried for election interference before election day but the evidence against him could see the light of day.
As she explained to the MSNBC hosts, "It is not just the defendant, it is the public that has a right to a speedy trial. I think the more progress he [Smith] could make before president-elect Donald Trump goes into office, the more he can do at the other end."
"Certainly the things that have been deemed official acts, such as Donald Trump's interaction with the Justice Department are going to go by the wayside," she predicted before offering, "Jack Smith has the option of amending the indictment."
"You do not have to go back to a grand jury to remove things from an indictment where they already found probable cause," she elaborated. "So he can pare this down to just those acts that he believes are official acts and go for it. it Certainly it will be litigated but the public will have an opportunity to see what the unofficial acts were: organizing false slates of electors, pressuring state officials to flip the outcome of the election and exploiting the chaos at the Capitol on January 6 to try to press legislators to delay the certification."
"All of that, I think, is entitled to a public hearing. Of course, also the documents case out of Florida. Judge Aileen Cannon has made no effort to act with urgency. — no reason that case can't proceed all the way through January to see how much progress they make, " she added.
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