![]() ![]() ![]() He's worked as a state, federal and international prosecutor almost his whole career. What should we know about him?īUTLER: So, yeah, at different times, we were both prosecutors in the unit of the Justice Department that prosecutes public corruption. You worked in the same DOJ section that he once led. I want to ask about Jack Smith, the prosecutor, because I know you worked with him. KELLY: And I gather they said this had to do with - the timing was right because the case is shifting to Miami. Sometimes when people are investigated and they actually get indicted, they get mad at their defense attorneys. ![]() From the case, so this may just be a sign that Trump is revamping his legal team. After that, they have to get permission from the judge to withdraw.īUTLER. When there's a first appearance in court, as there will be on Tuesday, the defense attorneys have to file what's called a notice of appearance. KELLY: What kind of signal does it send that his attorneys quit this morning?īUTLER: That's very hard to read. For the crimes listed in this federal indictment, Mary Louise, even first-time offenders usually get jail time. Even if Trump is convicted in the Manhattan case, he is unlikely to go to prison on those counts. There's never been anything this detailed and this consequential in terms of Trump's criminal exposure. There have been lots of accusations against Donald Trump over the years. According to the indictment, he conspired with his valet to keep them from the government and to cover up what he'd done. And when he was asked to return these documents, not only did he refuse. In the simplest version, the indictment accuses the president of taking sensitive documents pertaining to national security that he knew didn't belong to him, including documents related to the country's nuclear programs and documents about how the U.S. This is what prosecutors call a speaking indictment, meaning it tells a story that anyone can understand. How serious are they?īUTLER: Very serious. It includes, among other allegations, that Trump and his aides misled the FBI about keeping hundreds of sensitive documents at a crowded public resort, that they allegedly stored them, among other locations, in a shower. PAUL BUTLER: Hey, Mary Louise - great to be here. Let's bring in Georgetown University law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler - good to see you. Meanwhile, one name to keep an eye on - Jack Smith, the special counsel who pursued these criminal charges against the former president to do with classified documents. They resigned this morning from representing him, part of the fallout from this federal indictment. If you are trying to keep track of all the names of people caught up in Donald Trump's legal troubles, here's two you can deprioritize - Jim Trusty and John Rowley, Trump's attorneys. ![]()
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