In the latest step in a larger offensive, Donald Trump’s lawyers want the judge in his election case to recuse herself. That’s not going to happen.
It’s this last point that’s of particular interest now. In an earlier case, Chutkan referred broadly to “the people” responsible for Jan. 6 violence, and the former president’s lawyers are interpreting the reference as evidence of the judge targeting their client. Of course, as my MSNBC colleague Lisa Rubinovernight, that Trump’s lawyers are certain that the reference was about him “is suggestive of his vanity, if not his culpability, and says more about Trump than it does about Chutkan.
What’s more, everything the judge said in the other case was true. With this in mind, Andrew Weissmann, a longtime Justice Department veteran and an MSNBC legal analyst,that the request for Chutkan’s recusal was “made for Trump’s base,” not because the attorneys who made the filing expect it to succeed.
As for the Republican’s pending charges in Georgia, his legal defense team have made a longshot filing in that case, too. NBC News alsoFormer President Donald Trump’s attorneys filed court papers Monday that marked his first attempt to get charges against him dismissed in the Georgia election interference case.
If the former president’s followers expect this filing to succeed, they should probably start lowering their expectations.
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