People 'do not want to go to jail': Legal expert explains why Trump's new strategy doesn't work
Appearing on MSNBC Monday, The Nation's legal columnist, Elie Mystal, said that among Donald Trump's defenses around the 2020 election is that his lawyers were telling him that what he was doing was legal. It's not something that Mystal said works.
"I also think it's really interesting these two Nevada fake electors who were granted immunity in exchange for testifying before a D.C. grand jury," host Alicia Menendez said. "Because there are all these folks who will argue, I was just doing what the guys at the top told me to do. I was following these people who I perceived to have a lot of power. What is it that these two folks might be able to share? What could their testimony reveal differently than someone who was very close to the epicenter of what was happening?"
Mystel said that the key information that will come from the fake electors is who in the Trump team told them that they could craft the scheme.
"Let's say I want to be a fake elector. Do I apply online?" asked Mystal. "How do I do that? Somebody calls me and says, 'Hey, Elie, you want to be a fake elector today?'"
Menendez laughed, but she said there were a lot of those calls happening, and it might actually be the way Mystal describes it.
"Who makes the phone call?" Mystal said, anticipating the next question. "Was it Giuliani, Powell, Trump? Who actually makes the phone call? Because that then becomes the person that's the next person to interview. And the next person to talk to, the next person in trouble. The other thing you're seeing with electors is one of the reasons Trump has not been in jail so far. He's been good at picking people who will go to jail for him. They will go to jail for him and wait to be pardoned by Trump. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort. Do these fake electors want to go to jail? Does Giuliani want to go to jail? At some point, you get to people who do not want to go to jail for Donald Trump. So they're going to tell the truth to prosecutors, and the truth is probably what will get Trump in a lot of trouble."
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