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Whiney Previous Guy hit from all Sides and Angles in America [1]

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Date: 2023-06-20

Tony rather than Jared Kushner, we will miss Trump’s spelling errors and his cult followers making surreal illustrations

Another day, another bunch of crazy stuff from Trump, because pink-haired lunatics and George Soros are at fault.

Mary McCord was the acting assistant attorney general for national security at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2016 to 2017 and principal deputy assistant attorney general for national security from 2014 to 2016. But if she was serving as the defense attorney for Trump, she shared a few things she'd already be working on.

"They will probably be seeking to delay any trial. I’ve been trying to debate what is actually better for Trump: Is it to go to trial before the election or to have this hanging over his head because, as we know, he’s fundraising on it? Being convicted before the election would, I think, be very devastating," she began.

She explained that it also only takes one juror to disagree to hang the jury, though she predicted Trump has "zero chance" of being acquitted.

"Acquittal would require unanimity among all 12 jurors, but one juror can hang it. So I think his lawyers will try to delay because that’s always been their tactic," said McCord.

"And they’ll do that not through necessarily illegitimate means; they’ll do that through filing motions. I think they will try to get the judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to revisit the D.C. court’s determination that the testimony and notes of the former president’s former attorney in this case, Evan Corcoran, had to be put before the grand jury because of the crime-fraud exception to the attorney client privilege. I think they’ll argue that [former Trump lawyer Michael] Cohen’s testimony shouldn’t be admissible at a trial and that his notes shouldn’t be admissible."

Trump's lawyers have already protested, unsuccessfully, the federal court decision that there was enough evidence of a crime to allow the breach of attorney-client privilege and allow notes taken by attorney Evan Corcoran as evidence. They're expected to challenge that again.

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