Trump trying to hold special counsel Jack Smith and fellow prosecutors in contempt is "unbefitting" and "frivolous," according to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.
Appearing on "The Legal Breakdown" with Bryan Tyler Cohen, Kirschner roasted the 45th president's legal team for their attempt to get U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., to hold Smith and two of his prosecutors in contempt for turning over thousands of pages in discovery and providing an exhibit list — while the case is paused.
They wrote that such work "teems with partisan rhetoric" and "false claims."
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Kirschner said: "This so outraged and incensed his defense team that they filed a motion to get the judge to order them to 'Stop giving us stuff — and by the way judge, we want money sanctions!'"
The 15-page document attempted to go so far as to accuse Smith of attempting to thwart Trump's predictable return to the presidency.
".... Prosecutors admitted their goal is to achieve exactly what the stay order forbids — preparing this case for a potential trial, which the prosecutors arrogantly presuppose will occur," the papers say. "Yet this is not the prosecutors' only unlawful goal. Unstated but obvious is the prosecutors' desperate effort to harass President Trump and prevent his likely victory in the 2024 Presidential Election."
For the former federal prosecutor who's tried hundreds of cases, it was dismaying.
"This may be one for the record books," he said. "It's one of the most frivolous — it's a downright silly motion."
