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8 days ago Trump’s attys conveyed to Judge Chutkan, thru prosecutors, that Trump took “no position” on whether DC trial should be televised (below). Last night his attys spun 180° & demanded that his trial be televised while spewing a fire hose of attacks at prosecutors ...
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... The filing is so extreme that one wonders if it is intended to achieve the opposite of the relief it nominally seeks. It tends to reinforce the rationale behind existing rules *against* cameras by showing the circus that a trial could become. ...
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Trump's filing makes 0 references to pertinent rules or cases. Instead, he levels 14 attacks on Biden for politically prosecuting him, with 3 references to “show trials,” 3 to “political trials,” & 1 to a trial bearing “all the ... badges of ... an authoritarian regime.” ...
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He says 9 times that he’s been “treated unfairly” by “systematic,” “inexcusable” & “unprecedented” denials, “abridgements,” and “repress[ions]” of his “inalienable” constitutional rights in a “travesty of justice” & a “travesty in darkness” proceeding “behind closed doors” ...
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He accuses prosecutors of “egregious lies,” “systematic prosecutorial misconduct,” & pursuing “a dreamt-up unconstitutional charade that should never be allowed to happen again.” Finally, ...
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... he says he’s being prosecuted for carrying out his “sacred obligation" to investigate fraud in the 2020 election” and pledges to prove at trial why “he believes it was rigged and stolen.”
Is this the motion he’d file if he really wanted cameras in the courtroom?
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Is this the motion he’d file if he really wanted cameras in the courtroom?
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