During a discussion on MSNBC on timing Donald Trump's multiple trials around his presidential campaign schedule, a former U.S. attorney suggested a Trump lawyer may have pushed his luck by suggesting the former president's upcoming racketeering trial might have to be rescheduled until 2029.
Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, ex-prosecutor Barbara McQuade pointed out that any average American facing charges like Trump currently is facing would not be granted the same consideration the embattled Trump appears to be receiving.
This past week Trump's Georgia attorney Steve Sadow asserted that taking his client to trial within the next year would constitute "election interference" in his eyes. That, in turn led Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to ask if Trump's trial could proceed in 2025, with Sadow replying, "The answer to that is I believe that under the supremacy clause and his duties as president of the United States this trial would not take place at all until after he left his term in office.”
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According to McQuade, that would mean a court date sometime in 2029 which she claimed might lead Judge McAfee to speed the timeline.
Recalling for the host, "The lawyer said, well, because a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, he also can't sit trial for a crime where he's a sitting president, therefore, that case would not be tried until 2029," McQuade added, "I think that aspect might cause the judge to reconsider, and make sure that this trial gets done before the election, because by 2029, I think the public has lost its right to a fair trial."
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