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Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon to discuss Donald Trump's faltering bid to be granted presidential immunity for his actions related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman stated the former president stands no chance of winning and that he expects him to eventually end up in "the big house."

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, Akerman bluntly said of Trump's immunity bid: "There is no way a president can achieve absolute immunity in the criminal sphere."

Pressed on Trump's legal team's efforts to convince the three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule in favor of the embattled ex-president, Akerman scoffed and remarked, "This is something that they made up out of whole cloth. It really has no basis in the Constitution, it has no basis in any kind of law that is in effect in this country — it just isn't there. They made it up and there is no way that this is ever going to be affirmed by the circuit court."

Turning to the trial scheduled on March 4th by Judge Tanya Chutkan that is on hold while the court considers the immunity appeal, Akerman said the former president is doomed from the day he walks into the courtroom.

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"It's pretty clear what the law is," he told host Phang before later adding, "What is really at stake here is getting this trial that is scheduled for March 4th back on track, because the minute that Donald Trump is in the dock, the jury a sworn in — he is gone."

"He's going to be convicted and be on his way to the big house," he added. "That is what he is concerned about. His only legal defense here, it's not on the facts, it's not on the law, it is on delay."

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Numerous legal experts and political commentators are becoming increasingly leery of US District Judge Aileen Cannon — whom former President Donald Trump appointed in 2020 — after her latest ruling denying a motion by Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith.

On Saturday, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance tweeted Judge Cannon's denial of Smith's motion to compel disclosure of whether the ex-president is planning an advice of counsel defense. That motion would have required Trump to submit for discovery any communications or documents that would otherwise be protected by attorney-client privilege.

In a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin confessed that an out-of-the-blue question that Judge Arthur Engoron posed to one of the prosecutors working for New York Attorney General Letitia James seemed to imply that he may come down hard on Donald Trump's ability to conduct business in New York.

While a central focus of the case involving financial fraud perpetrated by executives of the Trump Organization is the $370 million fine requested by AG James, there is also the strong possibility the Trump Org could cease to exist.

MSBC host Joe Scarborough went scorched earth on one GOP lawmaker over his smirky endorsement of Donald Trump on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling him out for ignoring all of the evidence that the former president has no business being returned to the Oval Office based upon the threats he has been making about his post-election plans.

Late Friday, after an appearance on Fox News, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote on X: "I just endorsed Donald Trump. Whether you like Trump or not, Americans face a binary choice. Biden refuses to enforce our border, prosecutes his opponents, & embraces policies that make life unaffordable for hardworking Americans. I’ll take the mean tweets. I choose Trump."

Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith recently announced several new witnesses who are experts in digital forensics as part of his ongoing prosecution of former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

According to NBC News, Smith's five witnesses will be called to testify in Trump's May trial in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida who are proficient in either digital forensics or cellular analytics. Smith aims to use their testimony to tie the former president to efforts by co-defendants Walter Nauta — his longtime bodyman — and Carlos De Oliveira, who was Mar-a-Lago's former property manager, to delete security footage at Trump's Florida estate.

Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, conservative attorney George Conway predicted that Donald Trump's antics in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom on Thursday will haunt him if he shows up at the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial set to start next week.

Speaking on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Conway said that Trump's meltdown during closing arguments when Engoron gave him a window to speak did not go unnoticed by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan who will likely keep the former president on a short leash if he shows up.

'There were two separate cases, one was the case that was tried, the defamation he engaged in against E. Jean Carroll after he was president," he began. "This is the one, this is the first case they would've brought that got held up because he claimed that the federal law prevented the lawsuit and then he later claimed that he was immune to it because he was president."

"And the first trial, where he had the opportunity to testify but did not, was where E. Jean Carroll presented her story and the story of the women who she told, just like within a day or two after the rape, and then the jury found, and Trump refused to show up to rebut that she was raped that day."

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"And so, he is precluded —there is a doctrine called collateral estoppel: if you lose an issue once to a party, you can't relitigate it," he explained. "So basically, E. Jean Carroll's lawyers are saying, they made a motion to exclude all sorts of things that he wants or that he might try to do to relitigate it. Also to make sure that Trump does not pull the kind of crap that he pulled the other day in court across the street."

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