Scandal-ridden former President Donald Trump is fighting tooth and nail to secure some sort of presidential immunity for himself, as he faces down a sprawling 91 different charges across four different jurisdictions, with no end in sight.
Following his string of historical, unprecedented indictments on charges ranging from election interference to inciting an insurrection, to stealing classified government documents, the ex-president has made it his mission to convince an appeals court that he is entitled to immunity from all his crimes as a former United States president.
However, if one legal expert is correct in his assessment of the matter, not only will Trump not secure the immunity he so desperately desires, the former POTUS is likely headed straight for the “big house,” the moment he gets before a jury.
Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman appeared on MSNBC today to discuss Trump’s desperate and floundering pleas to be granted presidential immunity for his actions surrounding and related to the deadly January 6th Capitol insurrection, which Trump would undoubtedly attempt to use as precedent to shield him from all his additional charges.
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Akerman believes there’s not a chance Trump will actually see a victory in this immunity debacle and will instead end up in a jail cell when it’s all said and done.
The former Watergate prosecutor did not mince his words when he told MSNBC host Katie Phang, regarding Trump’s presidential immunity bid: “There is no way a president can achieve absolute immunity in the criminal sphere.”
Trump and his legal team are in the midst of efforts to convince a panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule in his favor and grant him the immunity he so desperately needs to save his own skin — something Nick Ackerman simply scoffed at the mere idea of.
“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,” the former prosecutor explained. “They made it up and there is no way that this is ever going to be affirmed by the circuit court.”
Eventually turning to the topic of the March 4th trial date set by Obama-appointed Judge Tanya Chutkan that is currently on hold as Trump fights out his immunity schtick in appeals court, Ackerman said, in his opinion, Donald Trump is screwed from the very moment he walks into a courtroom.
“It’s pretty clear what the law is,” Ackerman told MSNBC host Phang before going on to later add, “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 said. “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.”
Watch the clip of the MSNBC segment here:
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