Donald Trump's team thinks the former-President is in for a win in his Supreme Court presidential immunity case despite the court likely to throw out his case, insiders claim.
There were whisperings of underground celebrations just a day before the nation's highest court will hear the arguments that have impeded special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case for months.
“We already pulled off the heist,” a source close to Trump told Rolling Stone.
But, Trump's lawyers and political advisers have seemingly already accepted the justices will rule against him, three sources close to the former president reportedly said.
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The point of the trial was in fact delay, not to necessarily win. "The strategy paid off so much more than MAGA world anticipated," write reporters Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng.
"It doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now."
Sources reportedly admitted on Wednesday that the former president's legal team was apprehensively preparing to head to court this summer to face the charges that the ex-President conspired to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which many believe led to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Senate failed to convict the defamed businessman on charges that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection, when it impeached him a second time right after he left office. His lawyers claim that any attempt to prosecute him outside of the impeachment framework represents an unconstitutional form of double jeopardy, leaving him in a strange position of immunity.
The timing of the trial might have created a worrying obstacle to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign as it might have aligned with the Republican Party's nominating convention.
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"If the federal trial were to proceed during this election year, much of Team Trump had predicted it would be significantly more damaging politically to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee than, for instance, his ongoing criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan," the report states.
“We planned for that exhausting schedule and split screen,” one source told Rolling Stone.
Bringing the immunity case before a judge after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. dismissed their arguments on executive power was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump’s criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall in order to protect his somewhat shaky reputation and ability to run.
The Supreme Court has a very conservative supermajority, which Trump created as president, and they have been helpful to Donald Trump in ways his advisers didn’t believe was likely.