“It’s a message: ‘Don’t worry, I got your back. I’ll take care of you.’ And so it portends danger,” Jill Wine-Banks, one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal, told What A Day. “He doesn’t want anyone who speaks up against him … I would say there’s a risk that his people will think getting rid of Democrats is the way to go.”
Read MoreFrom speeches replete with lies and threats to Executive Orders undoing protections we need, to pardons of the violent insurrectionists and their leaders, to Elon's smile at Trump's promise to go Mars and his Nazi salute...
Read MoreFormer Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks called Justice Gesmer's decision "good news" in the wake of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's "crazy" ruling on Tuesday.
Read MoreFar-right Trump-appointed district judge Aileen Cannon has no authority to block special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his report on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday evening.
Read MoreFormer Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks posted, "Appeals court upholds verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. The Courts remain as guardrails of the rule of law. "
Read More"Joyce is right to be skeptical. Criminals find ways around inconvenient laws, and in Trump’s case, the Constitution," Wine-Banks posted on Blue Sky.
Read MoreJudge Aileen Cannon dismissed all charges against former President Donald Trump in his federal classified documents case.
Read MoreJill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor, told the SistersInLaw podcast that she believes Judge Chutkan will "rule quickly" on whether the evidence can be unsealed, meaning it could be made public before the election.
"Her history has shown that she acts quickly. So I expect that she will rule quickly enough on this that we could see it," Wine-Banks said.
She added that Smith's brief could include "a pretty good summary of what the facts are that relate to the superseding indictment and why the things that he still has in the charges are all either completely unofficial acts, personal acts of candidate Trump, or why they are rebuttable official acts."
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Read MoreWow! Talk about possible double meanings.
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Read MoreTexas Governor Greg Abbott's feud with the federal government that has escalated to some calls for "civil war" sheds doubt on long-term American prosperity, says former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks.
Read MoreFormer Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said on Saturday that former President Donald Trump did something "really stupid" in his civil defamation trial from E. Jean Carroll that could result in higher damages.
Read MoreMSNBC legal analyst and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has weighed in on Donald Trump's recent legal victory in Colorado.
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Read MoreFormer Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks addressed the upcoming Tuesday hearings for the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the 2020 election and the violence against Congress.
Read MoreJill Wine-Banks tells of sexism and barriers; says world has changed since Nixon faced hearings, but committee doing ‘brilliantly’ with compelling storytelling
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