Ex-Mueller prosecutor reveals a different reason he thinks Trump is avoiding his trials



For the past year, analysts have speculated that the reason Donald Trump is trying to put off is that if he is back in office, he can shut down the trials against him. One legal analyst doesn't think that's the whole story.

Speaking to MSNBC's Michael Steele on Monday, Andrew Weissmann, former senior prosecutor to Robert Mueller, said he thinks Trump is actually scared of the trial itself.

"I think one of the reasons that Donald Trump is so desperately trying to put all of these trials off is because you cannot be sure that two-thirds is so solid," Weissmann said, citing the 66 percent of Republicans who support him on the 2020 election. "Right now, Donald Trump doesn't want to have his day in court, doesn't want to have to deal with facts in court."

Instead, Trump has been spinning his own story and attacking the judges and lawyers in court. This is a lot easier than facing a courtroom, which has procedures and rules.

"He wants to deal with spin and say this is a witch hunt, and this is all bogus," said Weissmann. "But if there is a trial, it remains to be seen whether it will be like the January 6th hearings, which really broke through in terms of changing people's minds — not everyone, of course, and it won't be everyone."

But he agreed with former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), who thinks Trump is scared of being confronted with the facts over his preferred "reality."

"Especially in the Jack Smith January 6th case," Weissmann continued. "Most of those witnesses are going to be former Donald Trump witnesses, people who are close to him in the administration testifying about what happened and what he did. So, I think there really could be a needle that moves because of that trial."

Thus far, he said, nothing has broken through the kind of red wall of election denial. A public trial with tons of media attention not far from the 2024 election could do exactly that.

"Gravity doesn't seem to hold with respect to Donald Trump," Weissmann lamented. "But it could be that that criminal case with facts that are adduced there change the dynamic in the political sphere, not just in the legal sphere."

Weissmann also noted that every reporter should be asking Democrats and Republicans if they agree with Trump's view that the president should be able to order S.E.A.L Team 6 to kill anyone they want without consequences.

Meanwhile, the trial for Trump around the 2020 election and Jan. 6 is on hold pending the presidential immunity appeal at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He wants to know at what point the court will open the door again for the case to continue.

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