MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell claimed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump had “put bribes on the bench” of judges hearing federal criminal cases.
“There’s a bribe on the defense table,” O’Donnell said before Trump spoke at a club in Bedminster, New Jersey. “When Donald Trump becomes president, there will be a Supreme Court nominee. If you, Mrs. Justice, can help me become president again, this is it. A lawyer’s seat in front of a Republican judge.” We cannot afford a greater and more frightening incentive than this.” (Related: ‘We have a rogue country’: Trump speaks for first time since arraignment)
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President Trump pleaded “not guilty” to all charges in Tuesday’s arraignment after a special counsel secured grand jury indictments on 37 charges, including Espionage Act violations, that were unsealed on Friday. did
Federal District Judge Eileen Cannon, whom President Trump appointed to the federal court in May 2020, will reportedly preside over the case. Cannon ordered the appointment of a special master to review documents seized in the Aug. 8 raid in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., owned by Trump, a ruling that was later overturned on appeal.
MSNBC host Joy Reed previously said, “She will be appointed just before Donald Trump’s term ends and he leaves office,” claiming Trump has “introduced some kind of poison into the system.” bottom.
Mr. O’Donnell argued that judicial ethics required Mr. Cannon to withdraw from the trial.
“One of the questions we forgot to ask at the Senate confirmation hearing was, ‘Are you going to preside over the criminal trial of the president who appointed you?'” O’Donnell said. “And the answer is, obviously, don’t.”
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