A prosecutor from the days of the Watergate scandal is implying that jury nullification plus “alternative facts” could prevent the federal prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
Jill Wine-Banks, who is also an MSNBC legal analyst, so it’s obvious where she is coming from, put forth this theory on The Dean Obeidallah Show.
The far-left, Trump-loathing Obeidallah tossed a softball to Wine-Banks by asking, “You are a former federal prosecutor. Based on the evidence you’ve seen, do you think you can get a conviction of Donald Trump, for some crime — either January 6th or the Mar-a-Lago documents?”
Seemingly smearing the MAGA contingent, which consists of about 75 million voters, Attorney Wine-Banks replied, “If there is not a Trump supporter on the jury who lies about being able to judge on the facts, the answer is absolutely. I would have no qualm about it.
Sounding like she has pre-judged the evidence, such as it is, herself, before any case is brought forward, Wine-Banks continued: “I’ve fortunately never had to pick a jury in an era where you have to worry about people believing alternative facts that they can not be dissuaded from. I think that’s one of the biggest problems facing our country, and it’s a question that I have asked many guests on my podcast, without getting a really satisfactory, compelling answer, which is ‘how do you reach the people who have bought into this nonsense?'”
Throwing shade on those who questioned the outcome of Election 2020, the Ivy League-educated lawyer who also worked in the Jimmy Carter administration further claimed, “I don’t know how you reach those people, and that’s the only risk that you would have. That does not mean you wouldn’t indict and go to trial. I’m just saying that I cannot guarantee to you in the way I would normally feel confident that I would get a conviction.”
Like many elitists, Wine-Banks might be engaging in projection, given that a liberal D.C. jury, for example, seems unlikely to convict a politically connected Democrat for improprieties.
Someone aligned with Trump, or perceived that way, facing a D.C. jury has a entirely different set of challenges.
This particular exchange starts at about the six-minute mark. Watch the video embedded below and draw your own conclusions:
Trump already sounds like a 2024 presidential candidate. He arguably may find himself in a situation where he has to seek the White House again to try to keep vindictive, partisan prosecutors at bay in what has devolved unfortunately into a two-tiered justice system under the Biden Justice Department.
In a recent Nevada rally, moreover, Trump called for his predecessors to be given the same investigatory scrutiny that he’s faced over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Back in April, Obeidallah gave a platform to Democrat Jerry Springer to claim that the antics on the latter’s long-running syndicated television show was a harbinger of the rise of Trump in politics. “The behavior of some of the people on the show is exactly Donald Trump,” Springer insisted.
‘There’s no question!’: Jerry Springer takes credit for setting stage that led to Trump presidency https://t.co/pDhaZzWYlv
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Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”
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