CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Wednesday that there was “no planet” that Donald Trump is tired in March, as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has proposed.
CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Honig Wednesday night about the trial timeline for Willis’ indictment.
“There is no earth. There is no planet on which this case will be tried in March. Due to the log jam that we just saw,” Honig said, referring to the several other indictments. “Now we see all of these four different indictments and they’re all jockeying for very limited trial space, but the D.A. has asked to try this in March. First of all, there is an ongoing racketeering trial right now that the D.A.’s office is handling in Georgia. They are still choosing a jury, they’re seven months in. I know that sounds unbelievable, but state jury selection is way slower than in federal cases.”
“So, even if they start in March, they’d still be picking a jury on election day, so that is not happening. I understand what the D.A. is doing, she’s doing what prosecutors are trained to do, you always say, ‘We are ready to go, any day, we want to try everyone all together,’ but March is not happening for this case,” he continued.
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Cooper asked former U.S. attorney Michael Moore about whether there would be 19 people charged by the time the case goes to trial.
“No. There’s not a chance. There will be people who flip, who cooperate, some people who plead out. There may be people she decides to get rid of because it complicates the case. There won’t be 19 defendants sitting in the courtroom. Because there’s 19, that’s one of the reasons there’s no possible way that she’s going to go to trial in March,” he said.
Moore also suggested that it was more of a “PR move” by Willis and said she was playing into Trump’s hands.
“This is sort of a PR move, I think, on her part. I think it…
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