His team expected to hear charges, enter a plea during the initial appearance. The former president is calling for the case to be moved out of washington. He claims it is impossible to get a fair trial in d. C. Fox Team Coverage with Alexis Mcadams on trumps legal strategy. First, go to Griff Jenkins outside the Federal District court In Washington. Griff, what are you expecting out of todays proceedings . Here we go, jillian, mike. We expect things to get more interesting here. We expect the former president to make his way to District Court here in d. C. Once he gets here at 4 00 p. M. To go inside for that, lets talk a little about whats going to happen. He is going to go before a Magistrate Judge, not the judge that will preside over his trial, a Magistrate Judge for the initial appearance and fox news confirms, being told by the court, this will be an arraignment. We expect the former president to plead not guilty to the four charges, but already as you mention in that intro, he i
estherably on every quantifiable trump. they want to take him out of the race. we ve seen this before. prosecutors alleging trump tried to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power. according to the 45 page document, trump and his allies tried to exploit violence, according to prosecutors and chaos by asking lawmakers to delay the certification of the election, even though they say trump knew that he didn t win. he will also be going to newark international airport, only a 30 minute drive from here, mike, that shouldn t take too long. then we keep a close eye on what happens at the airport, expect to land in d.c. a short time before the hearing at 4:00. later this afternoon, donald trump will then appear in the courtroom inside of the federal courthouse in d.c. and that s where we are going to hear more about the indictment. back here live, trump was the only person as you know, mike, charged in the latest indictment, but there were six co-conspirators listed, didn t
charges, but already as you mention in that intro, he is worried about getting a fair trial. here s what he wrote last night on truth social. quote. the latest fake case brought by crooked joe biden and deranged jack smith will hopefully be moved to an impartial venue such as the nearby state of west virginia. impossible to get a fair trial in washington, d.c. now, let s look at the four felonies that mr. trump is facing here, three of them are on conspiracy, one on obstruction. a key person in this case and political rival now of trump for the gop nomination, former vice president pence who is blasting his former boss and the lawyers who pressured him to not certify the election results. listen here. it wasn t just they asked for a pause, the president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crack pot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes
the supreme court applied that case to a ballot stuffing case. i don t think that was a proper application of it because the original in at any time of the statute was to prevent violent activity. the supreme court decided the injure part of the statute could be applied to ballot stuffing because you were diluting the votes of legitimate voters. so that was an injury at most to the act of voting. and i think that was a stretch. i believe what the supreme court today would look at the situation and say look, we are not even comfortable with the idea of applying that statute to ballot stuffing, but we don t have to disturb that precedent to say this is even further removed because what trump is being accused of is these activities that he did to try to get the elections reversed or remanded back to the states, so the legislatures could revisit them. the idea would be they would cancel out the
environment we are living in. former president trump is a political figure that likes to constantly tell his supporters exactly what is on his mind, whether it is on social media or in front of a camera. any thoughts on when we may hear from him, whether it be on camera, whether it may be more social media after today s arraignment? he has been obviously very active on truth, his social media platform, saying he thinks this is a bogus indictment from jack smith, going after jack smith personally. he has gone after mike pence, his former vice president, who was on his program yesterday. he has come out very strongly saying he thinks there was potentially criminal activity here, obviously there s a deep divide between the president and former president, haven t heard if he is making a public statement, he did last time he went to bedminster and made a pretty powerful speech that night as the sun was going down in that very beautiful part of new jersey. not a lot of people realize how