'More bad news every day': MSNBC's Mika sums up Trump's legal predicament
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski provided a grim summation of the latest developments in Donald Trump's legal cases.
An appeals court flatly rejected the former president's immunity claims, and legal analyst Andrew Weissmann cast doubt on the U.S. Supreme Court taking up Trump's appeal or issuing a stay that would push a trial in his 2020 election subversion case past November's election, and the "Morning Joe" co-host was stunned by the news.
"So, to sum this up, you've got more bad news for Donald Trump in the legal realm," Brzezinski said. "Every day something new happens, and these are three-judge panels or juries of our peers, not the [Department of Justice], and he's already been found to be a massive fraud, and yet Republicans still keep running around in circles for him and behaving destructively at his whim."
Weissman agreed that the D.C. Circuit ruling was airtight and unlikely to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, if they even agreed to hear Trump's appeal, but he said their findings were also fairly obvious.
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"We get so inured to the crazy," Weissmann said. "This is the 50-page decision that, with no disrespect to these judges, says, guess what, presidents can't commit crimes. The idea we're all saying, 'Oh, this is a wonderful opinion' – of course, it is, and it reaffirms what it means to be a nation of laws. But it's also obvious. No one has ever thought that there would be a president or former president who would take the position that they are free to commit crimes. These are crimes that fundamentally change what it means to be an elected official where you're saying, 'I can actually obstruct people's power to vote me out of office.'"
Trump intends to file an appeal by Monday's deadline, but Weissmann doesn't see the Supreme Court stopping or delaying his trial.
"There's no way the Supreme Court would ever take this case and reverse the D.C. Circuit," Weissmann said. "The problem with them taking the case, of course, is that there's a time clock here. We're all entitled to a speedy trial. We, the people, are entitled to a speedy trial with respect to these charges. That is something that is statutorily given to the public, not just the government and the defense, but we have that right, and so if the Supreme Court were to take this case and stay judge [Tanya] Chutkan scheduling a trial, they could de facto be giving Donald Trump immunity because he wouldn't be tried on this case."
"So I think that's the conundrum for them," he added. "My bet on that is that they will not issue a stay and will allow Judge Chutkan to go forward with the trial, and she clearly is going to schedule a new date and go forward."
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