Maggie Haberman Says ‘Trump Team Has A Legitimate Point’ About Election Crimes Trial

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman had a tiny bit of good news for ex-President Donald Trump amid a heap of bad legal news, saying his team has a “legitimate point” in the Georgia election crimes case.

Haberman was a guest on Friday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, where she joined host Anderson Cooper and guest Caroline Polisi to discuss the breaking news that several Trump motions had been denied.

And when Cooper asked her to assess all the cases against Trump, Haberman said they’re all concerning to Trump for a variety of reasons — but added his team has a point about the complexity of the Georgia case:

COOPER: Maggie, which of these cases do you think the former president is most concerned about?

HABERMAN: I think he’s concerned about all of them. Honestly, I think that he is more concerned about the federal ones. The documents case, in particular, concerns him, except for the judge in that case, which is one of his appointees, and the fact that it’s a more favorable jury pool just based on the counties around the courthouse.

The January 6th case angers him for a variety of reasons, and you can see it when he talks about the election. It relates to an event that he considered humiliating, which is having to leave the White House. And so I think all of these things tie together.

He’s angry about the Manhattan indictment for different reasons. I mean, there’s no case that makes him feel good here; they’re all bad. But they are most — they are most concerned right now about the January 6th one because they think that’s the one that’s likely is necessary.

COOPER: So you mean that the humiliation is having to leave the White House as opposed to the humiliation of having his supporters break into the Congress in …

HABERMAN: We’ve heard him defend that.

COOPER: Yes, please.

HABERMAN: So that is not something that I have heard him sound any concession of shame about publicly.

To the point about fairness versus a speedy trial, though, I think that you are going to hear that over and over again. And it is the one place or a place, where the Trump team has a legitimate point about the fact that Trump does have the same rights as any other defendant.

COOPER: Yes. Caroline Polisi, thanks so much. Maggie Haberman, thank you.

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