effect of punishment. prosecutors then tried to bolster that point from the judge, miss casten, the prosecutor says quote, the defendant. formerly the senior most official in our federal government is accused of historic crimes. attempted to overturn the presidential election. disenfranchise americans, and disrupt the peaceful transfer. there is an incredibly strong peaceful interest, and the juries prompting consideration of those claims and open courts. also a strong public interest, and a fair trial. which means we need to proceed to trial as soon as the defense can be ready. reasonably, because on the near daily basis. the defense posts on social media about this case. he has publicly disparaged witnesses, he s attacked the integrity of courts, and the citizens of the district of columbia that make of the jury pool. and this prejudices the jury pool. and your honor, we need to find a trial date web?
criminal trials he is currently facing. this is the case about him trying to falsify the election results. it s a federal case about that. what this means in practical terms is that this hearing today was basically the opportunity for trump s lawyers to defend their argument that they ve already made to the court in print that trump s trial, federal trial trying to overturn the election results shouldn t start for another two and a half years. it shouldn t start until 2026. today was the hearing where they were going to defend that argument. today judge chutkan federal judge in d.c. made clear they are not going to get their 2026 wish but how she got there was kind of amazing. the judge, quote, now i want to note here that setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on a defendant s personal and professional obligations. mr. trump like any defendant will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule. if this case for example involved a professional athlete
lot going on in what counts as the straight up normal news right now. in georgia, in the georgia case in which former president trump and 18 codefendants are chargedf with engaging in a criminal racketeering enterprise aimed at derailing the transfer of powerh and keeping trump in office despite him losing the election, today interestingly, we had kind of a mini trial of some of the claims that are at issue in thaa indictment. it wasn t exactly a dry run, because what happened today is potentially a really consequential thing in itself, but today in georgia, somewhat to everyone s surprise, we had trump s white house chief of staff mark meadows and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger and other witnesses all testifying in an all day hearing that did kind of seem like a mini version of the georgia trial in that they hit a lot of the merits of that case. this today was all part of an effort to take that georgia case out of georgia state court and g
trial for trying to overturn the election results shouldn t start for another two and a half years. she didn t start until 2026. today was the hearing, where they were going to defend that argument. today, judge tanya chutkan, federal judge in d.c.. made clear that they are not going to get their 2026 which. how she got that was kind of amazing. the judge, quote, now i want to note here that setting a trial date does not depend, and should not depend, on the defendants personal and professional obligations. mr. trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule. if this case, for example, involved a professional athlete. it would be inappropriate for me to schedule a trial date to accommodate her schedule. the same is true here. among other things, the public has an interest in the fair and timely administration of justice. as well as a reducing that defendant opportunity to commit crimes while on pretrial release. and preventing extended pre tr
public. please report those to law enforcement because of a heightened threat environment for politicians in georgia because, of course, there as lot going on in what dpournts the straight up normal news right now. in georgia, in the georgia case in which former president trump and 18 codefendants are charged with engaging in a criminal racketeering enterprise aimed at derailing the transfer of power and keeping trump in office despite him losing the election, today interestingly, we had kind of a mini trial of some of the claims that are at issue in that indictment. it wasn t exactly a dry run, because what happened today is potentially a really consequential thing in itself, but today in georgia, somewhat to everyone s surprise, we had trump s white house chief of staff mark meadows and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger and other witnesses all testifying in an