Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman questioned Donald Trump’s “off the charts” presidential immunity declare on Saturday as he declared that the previous president is headed to the “big house.”
Trump’s authorized group argued earlier than a federal appeals court docket final week that presidents have “absolute immunity” from felony prosecution for acts made in workplace.
But Ackerman instructed MSNBC’s Katie Phang the authorized declare is absolutely only a delay tactic for the Jan. 6 trial.
“What’s really at stake here is getting this trial that is scheduled for March 4 back on track, because the minute that Donald Trump is in the dock, the jury is sworn in, he is gone,” Akerman stated of the 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner.
“He’s going to be convicted and be on his way to the big house – that’s what he’s concerned about. His only legal defense here, it’s not on the facts, it’s not on the law, it’s on delay.”
Phang requested whether or not the Supreme Court would take up the case ought to Trump lose the immunity declare, as extensively anticipated.
“Oh, I don’t think there’s any need to do it in this case, it’s pretty clear what the law is,” Akerman stated.
“There’s no idea of a president can go on Fifth Avenue and kill somebody and they’re not going to get prosecuted, that’s insane. The idea that a president can kill this political opposition and not get prosecuted is completely off the charts.”
Akerman added that there’s “no way anybody” is “going to buy” the argument.
