in his view its election interference, because nobody is ever allowed to prosecute donald trump, no one has ever been allowed to hold him accountable. there are only people who can old him accountable is himself and nobody else is permitted. the idea of holding this in 2026 was preposterous. the charges already that, she still gave him more time which i thought was sufficient. i thought it was reasonable, i thought the government would have been wanting to go way too quickly to january. was it enough time with pretrial motions. you know those are going to get appealed away. putting it in march gives some buffer room. i still think it s actually pushed to the summit this point, almost certainly will have a pile of litigation in this. but i think it was a reasonable compromise given what is essentially a very straightforward case. some are still of course not in the elections, and that was an october surprise, i wonder if we will get to that point. i want to tell, you general, there wa
before, says he doesn t have enough time to get up to speed. here s what the judge said. she pushed back saying any agent, diligent, zealous defense lawyer would not have been sitting on their happeneds waiting for an indictment. is she right? absolutely. he should have been prepping for a long time. she s right about that. the problem with setting a trial date, even if it moves back to the summertime, it plays into donald trump s hands. he s going to say election interference. he s going to keep saying, i m off the campaign trial. i can t campaign effectively. this is a democrat-appointed judge, trying to prevent me from successing. t the judge overseaing the department. this would be a different prosecution if joe biden were running for president, if donald trump weren t running for president, and weren t literally right in the heart of the primary and eventually the general election season. yet, there s been many who
the defense was pushing for a trial in april 2026. the judge said no. we re going to do march 4th. how did she arrive at that date. she tamped down on trump s team and said it woe unpress dissented to wait for 2016 and put it this way to trump s lawyer, she said you are not getting two more years, this case is not going to trial there 2026. and then she proceeded to really chide trump s legal team for not already prepping for this possibility of a trial in six months. she said this. she said any agent diligent, zealous defense lawyer would not have been sitting on their hands waiting for an indictment. so saying that trump s lawyers should have started their investigation and preparation for this soon after the special counsel started all of his work. john lauro, trump s lawyer, he hit back and he said, look, i was only just brought on to the legal team recently but that is still not a valid excuse for this. and he also really warned the judge that he wouldn t be able
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