Maggie Haberman Now Says Trump Will Be On Trial For Entire Election: ‘You Have To Attend As A Criminal’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told CNN’s Jake Tapper that former President Donald Trump’s entire general election will likely be spent in criminal courtrooms.

Trump faces 91 felony charges in four different criminal trials, but not all of those are expected to come to trial before the 2024 election.

On Friday’s edition of The Lead, Tapper asked Haberman if she thinks “any of these cases are going to go to trial before the election?”

Haberman — perhaps the most knowledgeable journalist on the subject of Trump — said it’s likely he’ll be forced to sith through at least two felony criminal charges for the entire general election:

TAPPER: So related to the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case, today denied his legal team’s request to remove languages in the indictment about the January 6th riot. They heard it’s inflammatory. Do you think any of these cases are going to go to trial before the election?

HABERMAN: I do. I think that the — was — something has happened in the last couple of hours. One is that Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia has asked for the trial to be set, I believe on August 5th in that case. What’s fascinating about that is it suggests that she thinks that the documents case in Florida is not going to happen at all before the election, because there’s going to be a hearing on that in March about whether to move it.

I do think that the federal trial on election subversion charges is going to happen in March or April at the latest. And I think we will see several months of a trial. I don’t think people have quite gotten their heads around what it’s going to look like when there is the potentially the presumptive frontrunner for the Republic nomination — Republican nomination, sitting in a courtroom every day. You have to attend as a criminal.

TAPPER: Yes, in March or April.

HABERMAN: In March or April for many, many weeks going forward.

TAPPER: And this is the classified documents case.

HABERMAN: No, that’s the J6 case.

TAPPER: It’s the January 6th case.

HABERMAN: That is the January 6th case before Tanya Chutkan in Washington. The documents case, which is Aileen Cannon, which is in Fort Pierce —

TAPPER: Oh, that one she’s delaying.

HABERMAN: That one, I believe she will delay that past the election.

TAPPER: OK.

HABERMAN: If the Georgia one goes ahead, and I’m skeptical of that in this timeframe of August, then that would basically mean Trump is on trial, the entire general election. And that’s an astonishing thing to get your head around.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.

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