Trump may quickly regret getting Judge Cannon to delay classified docs case: expert

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on MSNBC's "The 11th Hour" believes the events that take place on March 1st will determine if the criminal case against Trump for stashing top-secret government documents at Mar-a-Lago will go to trial before the 2024 election.

Judge Aileen Cannon has already met separately behind closed doors with both prosecutors and Trump’s defense team to determine what additional classified materials can be shared with the former president as part of discovery.

But come March 1st, Kirschner expects Trump's team to play their favorite card: Delay.

However, Kirschner said that even if Trump succeeds in getting Cannon to delay the classified documents trial, it may give Judge Tanya Chutkan an opening to begin the D.C. election subversion trial in late May.

"We know that Donald Trump and his team of lawyers will try to convince Judge Cannon to try to kick the May 20th trial date," he said. "And you may not expect to hear this from me, but I almost hope that she does kick the May 20th trial date. Why? Because if the Supreme Court denies the stay in the absolute immunity issue and returns the case to [Judge] Tanya Chutkan in D.C. in the election interference case — would love to see her take that case and drop it on the docket for May 20th."

Kirchner also dug into the 45th president for failing to accept defeat after Judge Arthur Engoron hit him with a $350 million fraud verdict last week.

"[Trump] sings the song of a loser," he said. "He has an unabated string of losses. He has lost civil case after civil case... he lost a criminal case, albeit by proxy. His organization, his namesake, the Trump Organization that he headed up was criminally convicted of 17 felony counts for a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud. No, he wasn't at the counsel table, but he lost that case, right? That was his organization that he built, and he ran in a way that was corrupt."