Tapper Has a Blast Reading ‘Honest-to-God’ Court Filing From Trump Attorneys: ‘The Lawyers of Whoville Could Have a Bleak Christmas’
A dramatic Jake Tapper put on his best Grinch voice when reading a document filed by former President Donald Trump’s attorneys Wednesday.
“A judge has just paused Donald Trump’s 2024 election interference case, which could leave his March 2024 trial to be delayed,” Tapper said. “Earlier today, Trump lawyers compared Special Counsel Jack Smith to the Grinch for trying to keep the trial on schedule. Here is what they wrote. This is an honest-to-God court filing, my hand to God,” Tapper declared, before reading:
Quote — “This proposed schedule would require attorneys and support staff to work ’round the clock through the holidays, inevitably disrupting travel and family plans. It is as if the special counsel growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, ‘I must find a way to keep Christmas from coming, but how?'”
“So, the lawyers of Whoville could have a bleak Christmas, I guess is the argument,” Tapper quipped before asking Maggie Haberman, “What are the real world, and political consequences, and legal consequence if the trial is delayed, and how likely do you think it is?”
“There is a real possibility the trial will be delayed,” Haberman said. “I think that the March 4th start date has seemed aspirational for some time. The question is, how long? Does it start, say, before the Republican nominating convention in July? Does it start at some point later in the summer? Would the judge feel okay starting it in August? There’s so many variables built in to this, it’s very hard to say when this will begin. It is still seen as the likeliest trial to start before the election, if not the only one. But there’s a lot of moving parts.”
“And obviously, you can’t keep these trials — you can’t keep track of them without a program,” Tapper added.
Judge Tanya Chutkan paused court proceedings while the U.S. Supreme Court considers Trump’s claim that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. SCOTUS agreed Tuesday to consider the issue, allowing Smith to bypass a federal appeals court that may have dragged out the decision.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
