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Two former prosecutors explained that New York is accustomed to having high-profile people processed for indictments, but they've never dealt with a former president before.
Former President Donald Trump told his followers over the weekend that he would be arrested on Tuesday. The New York grand jury will hear at least one witness and possibly two witnesses, as well as any closing statements from the district attorney's office. Then they deliberate on whether to indict.
Explaining how it works, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, the former chief assistant D.A. in the Manhattan D.A.'s office, explained that the grand jury would be asked to sign an indictment if they vote for one. It will be filed under a seal because grand juries are secret. But given Donald Trump likes to post about what's happening, he might reveal that he's being indicted before the district attorney's office does.
"Then, typically, they make arrangements with the Trump team to surrender so that he can show up voluntarily, and he'll be processed the way every other defendant is handled in New York, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican," she continued.
CNN asked Trump's lawyer Alina Habba on Sunday if Trump would go peacefully. She replied that he isn't one to "hide under the covers," implying that he will be willing to surrender himself.
"The Manhattan D.A.'s office has a long history of prosecuting people without fear or favor," explained Agnifilo. "They don't look at things like what party you're with, and he will be processed and fingerprinted and photographed and arrest processed. And he'll be arraigned, told what charges he is facing, and I'm 100 percent certain he will enter a plea of not guilty. And that's that. He'll go home after that. This is not a bail-eligible offense in New York because it's a nonviolent felony."
The only information that will likely be revealed about the charges and the case will likely come from Donald Trump, with the D.A. being confined by the case's seal.
"And he likes to get his story out, true or not," continued Agnifilo. "So he will at some point likely say something and use this as a media opportunity, I think, to further get his base riled up and call for protests, and frankly, these protests he's calling for in New York City, the NYPD has a long history of knowing how to handle mass protests, whether they are peaceful or not peaceful. I have no doubt that they will handle this and handle this expertly and keep people safe. But Donald Trump thinks that he, you know, can mess with the criminal justice system in some way, and that's what he's going to try to do. He's going to make it so that things happen differently for him."
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Trump attorney balks at 'strange' request for testimony in Georgia election probe: report
March 20, 2023
Prosecutors are seeking the testimony of an attorney representing Donald Trump in the Georgia case over alleged election interference, but the former president’s lawyer plans to deny what her attorney described as a "strange" request, ABC News reports.
It is not clear what information prosecutors hope to glean from Christina Bobb, according to the report, which notes that the Trump attorney’s role in the classified documents case is being investigated by the Department of Justice’ special counsel, Jack Smith.
John Lauro, a criminal defense attorney who represents Bobb, confirmed to the outlet that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office contacted him to issue the request.
Bobb doesn’t intend to comply with the request, Lauro said.
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"They had a year and a half of investigating and never once reached out to Christina Bobb," he said. "It was one of the more strange conversations I've had."
The request for an interview with Bobb comes two months after a special grand jury recommended that prosecutors seek indictments against witnesses who lied to the grand jury during their testimony, the report said.
The Georgia case is among four known criminal investigations the former president is under. The New York investigation over alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels) along with DOJ probes over the handling of classified documents and his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, are the others.
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Republicans are 'obstructing justice' and 'becoming accessories' to Trump’s 'crimes': ex-prosecutor
March 20, 2023
In the wake of Donald Trump‘s numerous recent social media rants attacking various prosecutors investigating his possibly unlawful acts, and his claim over the weekend that he will be indicted on Tuesday, many House and Senate Republicans have been rushing to his defense, wrongly claiming he is the victim of a political prosecution.
At least two former federal prosecutors are blasting them, with one saying it is “illegal” to interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation, and another warning Republicans are engaging in obstruction of justice and are becoming “accessories after the fact.”
On Saturday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is expected this week to indict the former president.
“Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump,” McCarthy wrongly told Americans. “I’m directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”
McCarthy’s tweet was highly criticized, including by retired Democratic U.S. Congressman John Yarmouth of Kentucky.
“I may end being not fully accurate, but Kevin McCarthy may be implicitly endorsing falsifying business records, tax fraud, campaign finance crime, and more, including obstruction of justice, when undermining the justice system is exactly what his tweet does,” tweeted Yarmouth.
McCarthy didn’t stop there.
“Alvin Bragg is abusing his office to target President Trump while he’s reduced a majority of felonies, including violent crimes, to misdemeanors. He has different rules for political opponents,” McCarthy alleged on Sunday. “Republicans stopped the radical DC crime law, and we will investigate any use of federal funds that are used to facilitate the perversion of justice by Soros-backed DA’s across the country.”
Some Republicans injected what many see as the GOP’s increasing embrace of antisemitism into their attacks against Bragg.
U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Sunday tweeted: “Alvin Bragg is bought by George Soros. He allows violent criminals to walk the streets of New York City, but will prosecute the likely Republican nominee (and former president) on a baseless misdemeanor charge. These people are trying to turn America into a third-world country.”
Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the Chair of the House Republican Conference and an ultra-MAGA extremist, also used the Soros reference, which experts have said can be antisemitic: “The Soros-backed woke prosecutor Alvin Bragg must testify under oath before Congress.”
Attorney and writer David Lurie, pointing to both McCarthy’s and Vance’s tweets, wrote: “GOP politicians like McCarthy, Trump and JD Vance now routinely include antisemitic conspiracism in their political rhetoric.” He linked to this article he wrote at Public Notice.
“JD Vance is advancing a claim that a Jew ‘bought’ a respected prosecutor, who just happens to be Black,” Lurie added. “Double bigotry in just one tweet.”
U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) also engaged in the antisemitic “Soros-backed” reference.
Speaker McCarthy “is right,” Scott tweeted, “and I fully support his call for an investigation. No federal dollars should be used to prop up this radical, Soros-backed activist attorney or his gross political attacks.”
U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) on Sunday said District Attorney Bragg “should focus on the violent criminals terrorizing New York instead of pursuing politically motivated charges against” Donald Trump.
On Monday, a former federal prosecutor for 30 years, Glenn Kirschner, issued a warning for Republicans.
“In a very real sense, congressional Republicans who use their power & their office to thwart criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump are becoming accessories after the fact to Trump’s crimes. They are obstructing justice. And we can expect [it] to continue if it goes unaddressed.”
Kirschner was responding to this tweet from noted Harvard professor of law (retired) Laurence Tribe: “House Republicans are gathered at a luxury resort near Disney World where House Judiciary Chair JIM JORDAN (R-Ohio) & senior GOP leaders are preparing to demand testimony from members of Manhattan DA’s Office amid reports of an imminent Trump indictment.”
Monday afternoon Jordan and his colleagues did just that, sending a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, demanding he hand over communications and testify before Congress to explain his prosecution of Trump.
“Was the Manhattan DA’s office in communication with DOJ about their investigation of President Trump?” Jordan tweeted. “Was the Manhattan DA’s office using federal funds to investigate President Trump? Alvin Bragg owes our committee answers.”
In response, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), an attorney and former military prosecutor with the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps, called Jordan’s actions “illegal.”
“Dear @Jim_Jordan,” Lieu tweeted. “Local prosecutors, including DA Bragg, owe you nothing. In fact, it is illegal for you and @JudiciaryGOP to interfere in an ongoing criminal investigation, or a criminal trial (if there is one).”
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