Glenn Kirschner, a US attorney with 30 years of trial experience, said he believed that in at least one case, the judge and prosecution team “understand the need to punish this kind of wrongdoing”.
The prospect of at least one conviction of Donald Trump in 2024 is “extremely high”, a former federal prosecutor has told Sky News.
Glenn Kirschner, a US attorney with 30 years of trial experience, spoke as he assessed the former president’s year ahead in court.
Mr Kirschner, a legal analyst for NBC/MSNBC News, said he believed that in at least one case, the judge and prosecution team “understand the need to punish this kind of wrongdoing with a prison term”.
Mr Trump faces 91 charges across four criminal trials. While he is not expected to face all four in 2024, some trial dates have been set. The first is 4 March for his alleged role around the January 6 insurrection.
In that prosecution in Washington DC, he faces four criminal counts related to an attempt to stay in power after the 2020 election: conspiracy to violate civil rights, conspiracy to defraud the government, the corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to perpetrate that obstruction.
Glenn Kirschner told Sky News: “I think the odds of a conviction are extremely high. It’s important to recognise who the witnesses are against Donald Trump. These are not Donald Trump’s enemies or opponents, these are not angry Democrats.
“Interestingly, the people we know are likely to be on the witness list are almost exclusively Republicans. Some of them are his own former cabinet members, his former attorney-general, his former vice president. I believe the testimony we will see will come from a chorus of Republican voices. It makes it much more difficult for Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, to say ‘they’re all out to get me’.”
In 2024, Donald Trump’s court diary will intersect sharply with election campaigning. The January 6 trial is currently scheduled to begin the day before Super Tuesday – 5 March – a significant day in the race to be chosen as a party’s presidential nominee.
Super Tuesday is a date typically in February or March when the largest number of US states hold primary elections and caucuses.
