Jen Psaki Trashes ‘Trump’s Friends on the Supreme Court’ For Taking Up His ‘Absurd’ Claim Of Immunity.

MSNBC host Jen Psaki trashed the Supreme Court’s conservative majority for agreeing to take up former President Donald Trump’s appeal of presidential immunity, delaying his case significantly.

The Supreme Court announced last week that they will hear Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution in Jack Smith’s D.C. election interference case. However, the court will not hear oral arguments in the next seven weeks, increasing the likelihood the case will not start until after the November election.

“When it comes to the criminal trials facing Donald Trump. Timing is everything,” Psaki told her Sunday audience. “Specifically more time. And by taking up his claim of presidential immunity. Trump’s friends on the Supreme Court just threw him a major lifeline in the form of a delay.”

Psaki noted that although the “wheels of justice can move slowly,” the Supreme Court can move quickly when it wants to, citing the court’s decision to hear arguments in the Colorado case regarding Trump’s ballot eligibility and Bush v. Core in 2000.

So in the years since Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee was confirmed, just weeks before the 2020 election, there has been this big question hanging out there. Will they help him? And if so, when will they help him? Well, this week, the Supreme Court announced they were taking up Trump’s absurd claim of presidential immunity, and in turn, they granted him the thing he covets the most. More time. Because when you’re running for president to stay out of prison, you sure don’t want to stand trial before Election Day.

And by taking up this case, the court has now raised the real prospect that he may not. I mean, for reasons that remain completely unclear, they will not even hear oral arguments until a full seven weeks from now. So Trump’s election interference trial that at one point, by the way, was scheduled to start tomorrow is now being punted months down the calendar. And yes, I know that the wheels of justice can move slowly. I have made this point myself many times, but guess what?

The Supreme Court can move very quickly when it wants to. I’m gonna give you a few examples. Let’s take Bush v Gore. In 2000, the court decided the election in three days. You don’t need to look even that far back for more examples. This very court, same members of the court this very year moved quickly. In a separate case related to Trump, when he asked these same justices to take up the Colorado case regarding his ballot eligibility. They agreed two days later and scheduled arguments for the following month.

That’s downright speedy if I do say so. And they had chances to move with the similar urgency here, even more so they could have taken up this issue back in December, when Jack Smith urged them to consider his emergency appeal and keep the trial on schedule. But of course, they didn’t. They waited until this week to announce they would take up the case, and they will wait until late April to even hear the oral arguments.

They know exactly what this means for the trial schedule. They have a calendar and they did it anyway. So the Supreme Court might claim they are not in the political business, but they just knowingly put the country in a position where people might not know if they are voting for a convicted criminal on Election day. If that’s not injecting yourself into politics. I’m not really sure what is.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) later joined the program where he agreed with Psaki’s points, adding if you did not believe the Supreme Court wants to delay Trump’s trial then “you’re too innocent to be let out of the house by yourself at this point.”

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.