So he may not necessarily have to worry about other pending cases against him,
believe it or not.
Like what?
The one in New York and Georgia.
Now, that's according to New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
>> The special counsel, has asked for a speedy trial for this.
Is this going to intersect with your case at all?
How is everybody gonna manage the calendar here?
>> So, in all likelihood, I believe that my case, as well as DA,
Bragg and the Georgia case, will unfortunately have to
be adjourned pending the outcome of the federal case.
So it all depends upon the scheduling of this particular case.
I know there's gonna be a flood, a flurry of motions, motions to dismiss,
discovery issues, all of that.
So it really all depends.
Obviously, all of us wanna know what this Judge Cannon, is going to do and
whether or not she's going to delay this particular case.
>> Are you concerned about that?
>> I think everyone is concerned about that.
So obviously, it will depend upon the scheduling.
>> Yes, scheduling is important.
Now, while James, whose office is conducting a civil investigation
of Trump's alleged financial fraud, is contending that the New York case may have
to be adjourned, while the Fulton County DA's office, Fani Willis is running up
there or down there excuse me, is moving ahead in full force, yeah.
And in a statement, Willis's office said this, the federal indictments
will not have an impact on the Fulton County election investigation.
Georgia Prosecutor Fani Willis is expected to announce indictments in August in her
criminal inquiry of alleged Meddling in Georgia's 2020 election.
She has strongly suggested that she will charge Trump.
Now, Pete Skandalakis, director of the Prosecuting Attorney's Counsel of Georgia,
said that when the federal indictment was announced,
he had asked his staff to research this issue.
They know of no law that gives the federal government the ability to go first.
They would both go forward.
One exception would be if the federal government had a defendant in custody and
refused to release that person for a state prosecution, Skandalakis had said.
But that does not apply here because Trump was released Tuesday on a personal
recognizance bond.
Another exception would be for an agreement to be reached by federal and
state prosecutors to allow one case to go forward and the other to wait, he said,
but that apparently has not happened either.
Now, this seems like Georgia prosecutors are referring to the precedent when
they're talking about Trump's case because there was a similar situation that arose
in 1992 with the prosecution of Frederick Tokars.
Who was indicted in both federal court and
state court on charges related to the shotgun slaying of his wife.
Now, Tokars, who was an Atlanta attorney at the time, was charged with racketeering
and money laundering in US district Court in Atlanta and
charged with murder in Cobb County, where prosecutors sought the death penalty.
Now, we know this from the Atlanta Journal Constitution that both cases had to be
tried in different venues the federal case in Birmingham,
the Cobb case in Walker County because of sensational pretrial publicity.
Initially, there were heated discussions between the US Attorney's Office and
the Cobb's DA office over which case would go first, said Buddy Parker, the former
federal prosecutor who obtained Tokar's conviction and life sentence in 1994.
But ultimately, the DA's office allowed the federal case to go first, he said.
Tokars was later tried and convicted of murder on state charges.
My God, so there is a lot going on there when there might possibly be a battle
between the jurisdictions about who's going first,
are they gonna run simultaneously?
It will be interesting, but it seems like the New York prosecutors are more
willing to stand back and stand by in terms of the Florida prosecutors and
what they plan to do with the US Attorney's office down there.
But as we know it so far,
Trump was arraigned on Tuesday in the federal court facing those 37 counts, and
he hasn't released on his own recognizance while he is running for his second term.
But it just makes me wonder, how long can we continue to do this?
Because I do definitely believe that the Georgia prosecutor will go ahead and
charge him.
But whether Fani Willis will actually move forward now is a decision that her
office is gonna have to make.
And the thing is, who knows what's gonna happen between now and
a few years from now in terms of whether she is reelected to her office.
So she may wanna go ahead and get this done right in the now.
So I wouldn't be surprised if she does go ahead and
move forward at the same time that the Florida federal case is running, Benny.
>> Yeah, I mean, that really just seems like the obvious solution at this point.
You have to press things forward as fast as you can because with Donald Trump how
many things has Donald Trump gotten away with just because of running out
the clock?
Seriously, Donald Trump's whole game is running out the clock is just delaying
things in court for as long as possible.
All of this ridiculous shenanigans to the point where the media cools down on it,
and how long was the independent Mueller report take to take out.
All of these things just delay and it's just ridiculous.
We're getting to a point now where it's just exhausting.
We've been hearing about Donald Trump potentially going to jail now for like,
six years, and it just needs to move forward, all right?
If you have the case, build the case, make the case, press charges,
bring it to court, all right?
And do it as fast as you can.
If there's a federal court that's, hey, we wanna go first,
then I don't know, make them prove it, that they're gonna go first,
schedule a date and make them schedule a date first.
I mean, granted, I don't know all the intricacies of how that works within
the legal system, but ultimately, if there's nothing preventing
you legally from going forward as fast as you can, then do that, all right?
And then if there is some, hey, you need to delay here, then let that happen.
But I would say it would be ridiculous to preempt that by saying,
now that there's this federal case, we're gonna delay this.
I think that would be silly.
>> No, I agree, you know what these prosecutor's offices shouldn't have to
accommodate Trump's crime.
It's just not their job.
Trey, your thoughts?
>> Yeah, I agree also, just we've been acclimated or maybe we've gotten numb to
the lunacy of the Trump era, but every now and then you remove yourself from it,
take a step back and remind yourself, this is also insane, all right?
That the various criminal cases against the former president are vying for
position right now.
That's so wild.
Benny alluded to it's always been part of Trump's whole thing is he
overloads you with scandals and crap and then you almost can't keep up.
How many times during the Trump area somebody mentioned some scandal he had and
you're like, man, I forgot about that one, all right?
Before long, if these keep piling up, it's gonna be like that with literal criminal
cases against him at the same time.
It's so wild on a personal level.
Yeah, I'd push them all forward.
I'd like to have them all going on at the same time.
It's wild to see the prosecutors up there, well, we'd love to put him on trial, but
he's just gonna be so busy being on trial for all this other stuff that I'm not sure
if we could fit our trial in between all the other trials,
but we'll try to get in there at some point.
But I don't care, make his whole calendar, fill it up with trials, court stuff,
do it all pilot on him, do whatever you could do.
Don't matter to me.
I just wanna see something happen.
Benny said, it's been six years.
People been talking and people have been asking me online and stuff.
We're never gonna see Trump go to jail or face any accountability at all and for
the most part, I've always been saying I'll believe it when I see it.
And we're getting a little closer now, but that's still where I'm at.
But, yeah, let's go make something happen.