Legal Analyst Katyal: Trump Will Be Indicted in Winter 2023
Former president faces exposure over documents taken from Florida home
Former president Donald Trump will be indicted for mishandling documents in Winter 2023, predicted one-time acting US solicitor general Neal Katyal.
Today a legal analyst for MSNBC, Katyal made his prediction this week on MSNBC’s The Sunday Show.
Trump has been under investigation since August when FBI agents carried out a lawful search warrant on his Florida home and recovered hundreds of sensitive national security documents which the former president apparently had illegally taken with him at the end of his term.
“The Justice Department on Friday filed a motion to say, we want to appeal this whole question of a special master, because Jonathan, you don’t get a special master if you’re a normal person ever,” Katyal told MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. “And Judge [Aileen] Cannon said the reason why he gets one is because he’s the former president.
“That is not exactly powerful legal reasoning. And so the department has said, ‘The court of appeals, please hear our case right now. It’s true that we can do a lot of the criminal investigation on the hundred most sensitive documents, but there are thousands of other pages that we would like to look at, and you can’t shackle us.’ I think the department is basically saying, ‘Look, we’ve had it with Judge Cannon. She is erratic, and she is unprincipled. Her orders are obviously wrong,’” said Katyal, who served as the Obama administration's top attorney in front of the US Supreme Court.
He added, “I suspect the culmination at the end of the day, Jonathan, is that Donald Trump will be indicted by the Justice Department.”
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