how does that impact trump s legal strategy, when he is the king of delay, delay, delay? right, so i think that it may be a question here of how his strategy of delay has impacted these defendants. because something the defendants who moved for a speedy trial under georgia law understand is that they will not be tried with donald trump. georgia law requires that they get this early trial that they ve asked for, looks like late october. trump will not be sitting next to them, and perhaps for these defendants, that s a real benefit that they perceive. philip, part of the reason i want to talk to you, a piece in the washington post writing about how americans don t view all of trump s indictments equally. talk me through that. yet, so there s been polling from the associated press over the course of the year that s evaluated, not the indictments themselves, but the alleged actions that donald trump undertook that led to those indictments. and one of the things that sort of is fascin
what it s clearly what independents, certainly democrats, and i think what s left of the healthy republican and former republican segment, occupied by congressman jolly and others like him. you ve got control of congress also up for grabs. new insights on gop effort to win back the senate. quote, that means strategically ignoring the former president and many of the trump-centric themes that defined the campaign of his primary was stolen. for the past few election cycles, leadership aligned some knit republicans have complained that trump s influence has led to the party s voters nominating lackluster candidates, and in otherwise winnable states. allowing democrats to win the majority and then expand it in 2022. we talk about trump being on the ballot, i think a lot of us agree with, ferdinand, that this is all but a done deal. what does that then mean for all of their down ballot candidates? yeah, i mean, kevin mccarthy
between, but they re there. i spoke to a senior very senior democratic source this morning who talked to me a little bit on background about what they hope their sort of protocol will be in all of this, and it will be interesting to see if it happens. the idea is to say, innocent until proven guilty. in other words, not to double down, let the national security experts talk about that, let the lawyers talk about that, but i think we may see the democrats pull back a little. and let republicans paint themselves into a box. correct. because the reality is that we ve been here before with the republican party. the problem for the party right now is that it is still trump s party. he has expanded the horizon of unacceptable things ranging from this to january 6th. and so if you are a kevin mccarthy and after january 6th
evan, you know it s interesting, paula, on the back of what s evan is talking about, venue, there s also who is going to represent him. as jake was indicating two of trump s attorneys resigning after the indictments unsealed. now he s looking for new attorneys that will represent him in florida. doesn t appear to be an easy snap your fingers and people are running to do it. what more do you know? that s exactly right. it is challenging for the former president to find people willing to represent him. this has been an issue for him for the past several years throughout various criminal investigations. we know, for example, in washington, d.c., over time, he s reached out to many of the big firms, and they have declined to represent him based on a variety of factors including concerns about getting paid, impact on their reputation, and also worries about alienating other clients. at this point he is represented by todd blanche. he s sort of taking over after the departure of pretty muc
i think the issue n addition to what john was saying, evan corcoran, one of his lawyers is turning out to be one of the main witnesses in the case and was saying was at one point, trump was saying wouldn t it be great if they don t find documents and made a plucking motion as if to say take the documents out and they won t find them. he s asking his lawyers to commit crimes for him and with him, which is all those communications normally privileged are no longer shielded by the attorney-client privilege. there s a crime alleged you lose the privilege. really as a lawyer you re going to be asked to do things and that are unethical and potentially illegal, and i don t know a lot of lawyers who are willing to do that. right. which is interesting, they have a belief in the system. you take on a client because you believe in the system but wouldn t do something if the former president is going to come to you and ask you to lie or cheat, that s an issue and that is what is laid out