this. but this week we saw one of history s great split screen moments. on tuesday, at the exact same time that former president trump was being arraigned in florida not only were fake electors from trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election, not only were those fake electors testifying before special counsel jack smith s january six grand jury, but at the same moment congressional republicans were holding their own bizarro hearing about january 6th. at the exact same time a former president was arraigned on federal criminal charges related to unlawfully hoarding documents, witnesses were testifying in jack smith s other sprawling federal investigation into that same former president all the while that former president s congressional defenders were hard at work whitewashing the january 6th insurrection. all at the same time. that sort of wild convergence belongs in the history books. and while the arraignment and investigation of a former president is clearly of utmost impor
separate proceedings to deal with classified material. this is this notion that we ve already seen service in manhattan. that this is not a defendant who can be trusted with information about other people s finances. information that s on other people s phones. with the confidential information of witnesses. is that because he s just untrustworthy in general or because there are concerns about witness intimidation? again, we don t know for certain, but it seems likely that there are legitimate concerns about witness intimidation and the most interesting thing about this protective order is that the trump team did not fight it. it is a consent motion, they have agreed that it s necessary in this case. do you have an inference to make about why trump wouldn t fight this? or his defense team wouldn t fight this, given the applications that you just outlined? i think the reason that you don t fight it is because you know it s not going anywhere and this is so interesting because trump