Donald Trump "poisoned" his own Department of Justice's chance of securing a conviction the president "desperately" wants, according to a former prosecutor.
Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu weighed in on the Trump DOJ's prosecution of former FBI director James Comey. Trump's own decision to chime in on the case may have already doomed it, according to the attorney.
In an article called Trump’s Witch Hunt Is About to Meet Its Reckoning: Lawyer, the Daily Beast reports that Wu "says Trump’s public attacks on James Comey may have already poisoned the case against the former FBI director."
"Donald Trump’s multiple public statements demanding the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey delivered Comey’s defense team arguments to get the case thrown out," the article states. "Former federal prosecutor and Daily Beast guest columnist Shan Wu told The Daily Beast Podcast that the president’s public lust to prosecute Comey—which includes a Truth Social post addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding she prosecute the 64-year-old former FBI director—has poisoned his chances of securing the conviction he desperately wants."
The piece quotes Wu as saying, "The main argument Comey’s people are probably going to make is selective prosecution, meaning he was picked out because he opposes Trump... Probably not going to go all way to the [Supreme Court]. Usually that would be heard at the district court level, the trial judge. And the judge rules one way or the other, and it’s probably not going to keep going at this point.”
According to the report, "Wu warned that even if the judge in the case, Biden-appointed Michael Nachmanoff, did not throw the case out on the basis of selective or vindictive prosecution, the case would also need to clear another legal hurdle to even make it to trial: finding an unbiased jury."
Wu added, “There’s no way to find a place where people haven’t heard about this case... And the problem here with that publicity...”
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