Ex-DOJ Official Burns Trumps Nonsense Arguments With Bold Legal Prediction

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal  said Donald Trumps nonsense legal maneuvers arent working and predicted that the former presidents first criminal trial will begin as scheduled next Monday.  

As someone who actually pays his taxes, Im glad to see April 15th actually having some consequence for Donald Trump, he told MSNBC s Jen Psaki on Sunday.

Katyal dismissed an effort by Trumps attorneys to force the judge in the hush money trial to step aside with claims of bias.  

His legal strategy is first lie, then deny, then delay, he said. And were on the delay phase of this. Its his last-ditch effort. 

But he predicted it wont work and that Trump will soon make the wrong kind of history. 

I strongly suspect Donald Trump will be convicted at the end of that trial, he said. That will be the first former president to be convicted criminally. 

Katyal said Trumps efforts to undermine his various cases wont succeed, either. 

Legally, none of this is going anywhere. Thats the beauty of the American criminal justice system: Its 12 jurors, its rules of evidence and the like, and these kinds of nonsense arguments will go nowhere, he said. Thats why I suspect hell be convicted. 

He said even having a friendly judge in the stolen documents case in Florida likely wont help Trump much for the same reasons.

If it does go to trial, hes gonna be convicted almost certainly there as well, he said. 

See his full conversation with Psaki below: