'Can’t pardon his way out': Veteran Trump journalist predicts his number of convictions by Nov 2024
After ex-President Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial reaches a conclusion as soon as next month, the MAGA 2024 hopeful still faces three criminal trials.
During Monday's episode of MSNBC's The ReidOut, journalist David Cay Johnston, who is also author of The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family, offered his thoughts on how many convictions Trump could potentially have under his belt by the 2024 presidential election.
"It's November in 2024. How many of these trials have resulted in a conviction for Trump?" guest host Jason Johnson asked Johnston. "Let's just jump ahead. When we look at this case and look at some of the others, when you look at this past history, because usually in the past, he has been able to buy people off or threaten people or get out of cases or pay people off. How many convictions do you think he has by November 2024?"
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Johnston replied, "Well, the most important one and the easiest case to prove is the Mar-a-Lago documents case. And clearly, that will not be a trial because he's got a judge who has openly expressed her bias and said he should be treated as special, violating her oath of office. But the Washington, D.C. case over the insurrection almost certainly will have come to a conclusion by then, and [Fulton County District Attorney] Fani Willis' case should have come to a conviction by then, to a conclusion. And the Fani Willis case matters because if Trump gets back to the White House, he can't pardon his way out of that. He can't do anything about it. I don't think that [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg's case will be done by then. He's made it clear he is sort of stepping back and letting others proceed first."
The Washington Post notes, "Few people are as well positioned to write an exposé of the former president as Johnston, who has reported on Trump since he began covering the Atlantic City casino industry in the 1980s."
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