"This is going to go so very badly for Trump," predicted MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang.
Trump took to Truth Social to criticize a potential witness, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who was scheduled to testify before a special grand jury investigating Trump’s election interference in Georgia. Legal experts said this amounted to witness tampering. Trump then attacked the judge overseeing his Washington D.C. election conspiracy case for being biased against him. He had previously made unfounded claims that the Georgia district attorney investigating him, Fani Willis, had an affair with a gang member. Willis denied the allegations as false and derogatory. If another defendant engaged in similar behavior on social media about a witness, they could face witness tampering charges or be jailed. The judge in Trump’s D.C. case had recently warned him to stop making antagonizing statements, but he continued his attacks on Truth Social.
Former President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill, argued that a different defendant would be treated differently.
I’ll take “No shit Sherlock” for $500 Alex. It’s so fucking blatantly obvious how there are two different tiers of justice in the US. If you or me did that our asses would already be in jail.
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I’ll take “No shit Sherlock” for $500 Alex. It’s so fucking blatantly obvious how there are two different tiers of justice in the US. If you or me did that our asses would already be in jail.
The word “privilege” breaks down into the roots for “private” and “law.”