but he risks his own freedom at this point maybe literally. and so to the extent that he can avoid any sort of potential violations of the terminology of that order, i think that that will be very important. whether he follows that advice is another question. perhaps this will motivate mr. trump to agree to an earlier trial date to free himself of these very restrictive conditions. and while trump of course is skipping the first debate, if he does appear in future ones, could what trump says on the debate stage potentially be used against him in some of these cases? well, anything that any defendant says pretrial can be used against them in court. which is why defense attorneys constantly tell their clients that they really cannot include the case whatsoever. mr. trump is in a very difficult position because a big part of his campaign is focused on the prosecutions that are being brought against him and on the idea that the doj, that the justice system at large, even the state just
xro compro compromised. so he has to walk a fine line here. but to the extent that he is bound by these orders, he is bound by these orders in all respects even while campaigning at least at this point. and we still have cases that don t have trial dates yet. so what can we expect to happen next in some of these continuing legal challenges? all of these cases that are actually indicted at this point are on the court s calendar to a certain degree. and dates can shift and likely will shift as the attorneys go through the discovery process and begin preparing and allowing the judge to know exactly where they stand in their preparations and whether they will need more time on some end. and that doesn t even include the idea that donald trump could release counsel, fire his entire team and get new attorneys at any point which would reset the clock to a large degree, maybe even all together in some of these cases. wow. okay. so a lot of moving parts still, a lot of variables.
it can only be positive. we know the vote is ongoing at this very moment to decide whether or not the only candidate that is really up for vote at th pis point who is par of thaksin s party will become the next prime minister of thailand. and if he does, he is a favorable he s already tweeted welcome back and congratulating thaksin on returning to thailand. so clear where his allegiances lie. but this is a controversial move, the fact that pheu thai who did not win, they got the second most amount of votes, could potentially be running this coalition. move forward, which is the progressive party, they won the election, but they were blocked from forming a government by the conservative anti-progressive and military backed parties. what pheu thai has done is affiliate themselves with two of those military backed parties