Former President Donald Trump’s inner circle believes they have already won his Supreme Court presidential immunity case, insiders told Rolling Stone Wednesday. Word of down-low celebrations arrived just one day before the nation’s highest court is expected to hear the arguments that have stymied 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.
Trump’s lawyers and political advisers have already accepted the justices will rule against him, three sources close to the former president reportedly said.
The point, insiders and multiple legal experts say, was always delay.
“The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated,” write reporters Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng. “It doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.”
Rolling Stone’s sources admitted Wednesday that the former president’s legal team was frantically preparing to head to court this summer to face charges that Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 presidential election ahead of the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.
The timing could have delivered a devastating blow to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as it might have coincided with the Republican Party’s nominating convention, the report notes.
“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.
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“We planned for that exhausting schedule and split screen,” one source told the magazine.
Rolling Stone summarized the Trump team’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s scheduling as follows: “They’re celebrating.”
