Trump backs requests for TV coverage of his federal criminal trial
Trump backs requests for TV coverage of his federal criminal trial
Trump faces four criminal proceedings, including a trial set for March on charges of attempting to defraud the government and obstructing Congress by knowingly spreading false claims of election fraud.
In the late Friday filing, Trump argued that prosecutors want the trial held "in darkness" as part of what he claims is a politically motivated effort by President Joe Biden's administration to undermine his bid for re-election next year.
In his latest filing by his lawyers, John Lauro and Todd Blanche, Trump endorsed requests by media organizations that U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan allow live television coverage of the trial.
"Every person in America, and beyond, should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand and watch as, if there is a trial, President Trump exonerates himself of these baseless and politically motivated charges," said the filing.
Duh, this fucker thrives on media spectacle. Do not give this bitch special privilege.
43Broadcasting it will do nothing to sway his supporters. For fucks sake they WATCHED the debates he was in and loved every second of it while anyone with more than a single brain cell watched him get absolutely trounced in every one of them with his incoherent babbling and factually incorrect statements
38since they're cult zombies who are too far gone to be reachable, that means we can safely ignore what they think. we should turn our focus to the people who can still be reached instead and let the trump cultists cling to the trumptanic until it's finally over (most likely outcome: death by old age in prison) and maybe then we'll check back. until then, just assume everyone who still supports trump will continue to do so out of sheer loyalty until the bitter end and move on
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He's only doing this to turn it into a circus, the fucking clown
35Record the trial and release it after the verdict. We get the full transparency, with none of the spectacle during the proceedings.
They’re going to be screaming “martyr” no matter what they do, so might as well
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Fine, record it and publish it after a verdict has been made.
20honestly, for the best. as fun as being able to dunk on him live during a stream of his trial would be, we can get the benefit of the historical documentation from a recording.
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Of course he does. He just wants to use it as another campaign tool. Anyway, it's not going to happen because that would also be against the law.
9This is a dangerous catch-22 because televising the trial will only help his followers who will not see the truth being put forward, only finding more reason to believe in his "martyrdom" bullshit.
As it stands we have multiple top-notch journalists from world-wide news sites reporting on what happens, and imo that's good enough.
8No, it's not that. What's going to happen is that Faux is going to go through that days testimony and
create propaganda filmscherry-pick and distort until they have a narrative that says all liberals are evil people who get off on persecuting Trump and the good god-fearing America-loving, Midwesterners and Southerners.2
Dude’s so far out of his depth and he has no idea. Federal courts don’t allow televised proceedings. Full stop.
5They have allowed it before and will again if it's in the public benefit which judicially is a very high bar.
Notably in federal civil court there is no rule 53 barring video recording like there is for criminal trial.
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