A man who successfully prosecuted Donald Trump is giving tips to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Tristan Snell, who prosecuted Trump University when he was an assistant attorney general in the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports on Saturday, where he was asked about his book on litigating against the ex-president. Snell revealed that "public pressure" was a big part of his strategy.
"But that is something that Jack Smith has shied away from. So what do you think about his tactic relative to that?" the host asked.
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"I think the key there is that the DOJ is going to be very sensitive to this because it is the Biden administration and you are not going to see anything look like they are trying to politicize this case," Snell said. "And they shouldn't because it would be improper and it could backfire on them with the election and everything else."
He continued:
"I do think that Jack Smith, this is one of the biggest rules in the book, I think they need to really push out there in the media while these trials are going on. Don't make it political, but share with people of the facts and shine a light on things that happen in the courtroom. The D.C. case will will not have cameras in the courtroom."
Snell added that, while "we will have print reporters do their best to relate to all of us what was going on inside of that courtroom," we will also have something else:
"Then Donald Trump is going to be out there on the courthouse steps with his lawyers lying, lying, lying the whole time and twisting everything," he added. "We need to make sure that DOJ is out there. It may not be Smith, but there has to be people out there that are media savvy, that will be able to factually and clearly explain to everybody what was going on in that courtroom."
