Trump Ends Legal Fight Over Special Master

Donald Trump will NOT be appealing the recent court decision that did away with his special master in the Mar-a-Lago document case, a rare move by the former president and a huge victory for the Department of Justice. This means that rather than delaying any major movements for months, the DOJ is now free to go through everything and move forward with indictments if they feel the need to do so. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Over the years, we've covered stories that have been weird, that have been depressing, that have been just kind of confusing, I guess. Well, this story, out of all the confusing things I've had to talk about might be one of the most confusing ever, because I do not understand the rationale here. And it goes against the character that we know that Donald Trump possesses. This past Thursday was the deadline for Donald Trump to appeal the ruling from the 11th Circuit that did away with his special master. If he did not file an appeal by Thursday, then that ruling stood and there was nothing in the world he could do about it.

Thursday came and went, and Donald Trump and his legal team did not appeal the ruling getting rid of Special Master Ray. Dear, the Special Master that they fought so hard to get put in place, the Special Master that helped to slow down the ongoing investigation. Of course, he's now gone and he's now gone for good. Trump could have appealed it to the full panel of the 11th Circuit, or he could have appealed it to the Supreme Court, the 11th Circuit said, but he and his legal team made the decision to not appeal this ruling. Donald Trump appeals every ruling ever, every lawsuit he's in, every time he loses, appeal, appeal, appeal till there's no room left to appeal it. But not this one.

That confuses me tremendously. I need to know why. Again, you appeal everything, even the stupid things. This kind of seems like a big one for you. It's something you wanted. It's the whole reason you went judge shopping and now you're just giving up without a fight. That doesn't seem right, but I have a couple theories I'm gonna share 'em. First theory is the timing. If Donald Trump had appealed this ruling, it would likely have pushed this whole investigation back. I would say one to two months, depending on how it went, how quickly the judges were able to look at it. We're looking at at least one to two months that this would've prolonged this investigation where the DOJ basically had their hand tied, hands tied, waiting for a ruling from the Superior Court. So why do you not want the extra time? The very good answer for that. The longer this case gets pushed, the longer it will be until criminal indictments come down, if they come down at all, which as we're seeing from legal experts, people close to Trump, everybody at this point is

Expecting indictments. So conservative Republican debates for the 2024 presidential election are going to start in July. Okay? Does everybody realize that we're like eight months away, not even eight months, from the first rounds of Republican debates for 2024. We are in the heart of that, uh, presidential race. Now, I know the midterms, you know, just a month ago, but we're already in the presidential race. So how bad would it look for Trump if he pushes this down the road, gets to the debates, does well or doesn't do well, and then he gets indicted? He's not gonna have time to craft that narrative cuz there's gonna be challengers around him that are already going to jump on it and they're gonna use it to attack the hell out of him. If he can get indicted as soon as possible. It gives his legal team and of course, his campaign PR team, more time before other Republicans jump in to go ahead and craft the narrative.

Oh, this is a witch haunt. It's a hoax. They're politically persecuting me, but they really want to come after you.