Watergate Prosecutor Predicts Donald Trump Will Be ‘Destroyed' In Latest Legal Move
Jill Wine-Banks on Thursday poured cold water on a bid by Donald Trump’s lawyers to dismiss his charges in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case by claiming the protection of “presidential immunity.”
Trump would be “destroyed on cross-examination” if he used that argument, Wine-Banks, one of the prosecutors in the Watergate scandal that took down President Richard Nixon, said on MSNBC’s “The Beat.”
It would only work if Trump “was doing something presidential, something within his job description” when he did what he is alleged to have done, said Wine-Banks.
But “it was his job as a candidate, and candidate is a different thing,” she added. Trump can’t claim he was “acting as president when he was trying to take down the election.”
“That is a question of fact that will have to be determined,” she said. “The jury will say, ‘Yes, he was trying to take it down.’ He’s saying, ‘No I wasn’t, I was trying to protect election integrity.’ There is no evidence that supports that, and if he testifies that, he will be destroyed on cross-examination.”
