Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said Friday that special counsel Jack Smith has proven that the prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump was intended as a political weapon.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday granted Smith’s request to override the deadline in the federal election interference case. McCarthy said Trump’s victory in the Nov. 5 presidential election made prosecution impossible. (Related article: ‘A deal is coming’: Andy McCarthy says ‘generous package’ coming for Trump and Hunter Biden after election)
“Their position is that the Department of Justice’s long-standing law firm is providing guidance. [that] It’s basically saying you can’t indict or indict a sitting president,” McCarthy told “American Report” co-host Sandra Smith. “They are allowing President-elect Trump, who, as we all know, to be certified in a joint session of Congress on January 6th. His victory will be certified and state-certified electors The vote will be approved, and he will be the incumbent president on January 20th. And their position is that the case should not proceed under those circumstances.”
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“They could have suspended him, but I think they’re taking the position that this is a termination,” McCarthy continued. “I think this emphasizes that the legal issue was really about preventing Trump from winning. Now that he won, it doesn’t mean anything.”
Supreme Court upholds Trump’s immunity claim in case stemming from previous indictment Smith secured over Trump’s efforts to contest 2020 presidential election results It secured a replacement indictment against Trump in August, nearly two months after issuing the verdict.
After the special counsel initially secured a 37-count grand jury indictment against Trump and his aide Walter Nauta in June 2023, Smith filed a new lawsuit on July 27, 2023, over Trump’s alleged possession of classified materials. The superseding indictment was unsealed.
President Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records and could still be sentenced on November 26th in Manhattan, but New York Judge Juan Marchan decided on November 12th. He is expected to rule on a motion to set aside the jury verdict.
“There is also a state element to legal action. Judge Juan Marchan, presiding judge in the so-called hush-money case in Manhattan, is scheduled to rule next Tuesday on President Trump’s motion to vacate the guilty verdict, which includes a request for immunity. So we’ll have to judge whether the lessons have been absorbed by the end of Tuesday and then we’ll make a decision. [Merchan] that’s right. That’s because if he rejects Trump’s motion, it suggests he may try to sentence Trump by Nov. 26. I hope not.”
McCarthy also spoke out about Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis’ efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 Georgia election.・We expected to secure indictments against Mr. Meadows and other defendants. , it will collapse.
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