In an episode this Sunday of her MSNBC show, former Biden administration official-turned-host Jen Psaki offered a vision for the near future in politics as Americans wait to see if Donald Trump will face trial on his criminal charges of attempted election subversion before this year’s presidential election happens.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear further arguments amid Trump’s appeals claiming that he holds wide-ranging legal protections by mere virtue of once serving as president that should stop the case. A delay of the anticipated trial is accompanying these appeals, meaning the Supreme Court just added another chunk of time before the potential trial proceedings actually transpire.
“We all know what he did,” Psaki said. “There’s no doubt about the basic facts in any of these cases, really. We watched the insurrection he incited in the U.S. Capitol unfold on television. We saw the photos of the boxes of classified documents in his bathroom. We heard the tape of him on the phone asking the Georgia Secretary of State to find him votes. Even Trump’s claim of presidential immunity tells us that he has no interest in disputing the facts. That’s not his argument. […] It’s always been: ‘I did it, and I was allowed to.’ That’s his argument.”
Trump’s trial on his allegations from federal authorities of attempted election subversion was originally scheduled to begin this very week, in which the “Super Tuesday” primaries are also happening, though there’s not much of a real question about who will be the presidential nominee for this year’s face-off from either major party. Trump will still face at least one trial before this year’s general election, with the New York proceedings on his allegations of falsifying business records in connection to 2016 hush money happening this month. In his classified documents case, the prosecution and defense also both recently presented proposed trial scheduling that puts proceedings before the general election this fall.
