Former prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told The Saturday Show host Jonathan Capehart that special counsel Jack Smith may be poised to nail Trump with wire fraud charges, and that they should be easy to prove.
April 30, 2023

Former prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told The Saturday Show host Jonathan Capehart that special counsel Jack Smith may be poised to nail Trump with wire fraud charges, and that they should be easy to prove.

January 6 prosecutors are reportedly pursuing information that could lead to wire fraud charges — on top of everything else Trump faces — by looking to see if Trump and his team knowingly raised funds based on false fraud claims.

On Saturday morning’s edition of The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart, Capehart asked Kirschner what he thinks Pence gave the grand jury, and Kirschner said it was likely a lot:

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Oh. Oh, that’s deep! I didn’t realize that. That is deep. All right. The New York Times is now reporting that Jack Smith’s federal prosecutors are investigating whether Trump and his aides violated federal wire fraud statutes by fundraising from false claims of widespread voter fraud. How will this factor in the prosecutor’s prosecutors decision to press charges?

GLENN KIRSCHNER: Y’know, wire fraud is kind of the stock-in-trade of federal prosecutors, if you use the wire, is kind of an old time term. It used to mean the TV, the radio, the telephone. Now it is the Internet. As part of a scheme to defraud others out of their money. Now, would Donald Trump ever do something like that? Those are fairly easy charges to prove. So I have a feeling you’re going to see a series of wire fraud charges in what I predict will be the larger charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Because remember, Jonathan, a federal judge out in California ruled previously there was enough evidence, a preponderance of the evidence, that Donald Trump committed the crime of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Here's more from Raw Story on the potential charges:

Speaking with MSNBC's "The Saturday Show" host Jonathan Capehart, the former prosecutor claimed such charges were hinted at by a California judge last year.

According to the Times, "Led by the special counsel Jack Smith, prosecutors are trying to determine whether Mr. Trump and his aides violated federal wire fraud statutes as they raised as much as $250 million through a political action committee by saying they needed the money to fight to reverse election fraud even though they had been told repeatedly that there was no evidence to back up those fraud claims."

The report added, "In the past several months, prosecutors have issued multiple batches of subpoenas in a wide-ranging effort to understand Save America, which was set up shortly after the election as Mr. Trump’s main fund-raising entity."

I'm not sure what the hold up is and why Trump hasn't been charged already, but I sincerely hope Kirschner is right and that we finally start to see some accountability for Trump's actions sooner and not later.

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