Forward so too does jack smiths other case, the one in washington, d. C. Today special special prosecutors revealedsp when the hope to schedule that trial. Jack smiths team told the court they want to begin the 2020 election case against trump on january 2nd. Prosecutors argued starting the trial on the second day of the new year before any of the nominating contests would vindicate the publics strong interest in a speedy trial. Now, we do not know whether or not the court willno agree to tt date, and trumps legal team will almost certainly push back, but if the court heeds the governments wishes here, then, wow, donald trump has a very busy dance card in the month of january. Take a look at this. A Potential Criminal Trial on january 2nd and then four days later the anniversary of the capitol insurrection, january 6th. Nine days after that it is the iowa caucuses, which of course is the first contest of the 2024 republican president ial primary. And then some time around then, likely
general position has been to flout authority, and i have a time imagining it s going to be different in this scenario. i mean it s morass, right? there are two reasons a judge issues a protective order. to keep the jury pool from being tainted so the defendant can t be out there talking about information that makes it very hard to choose a jury pool and the third here seeking to intimidate witnesses through public statements, which is something we ve also seen crop up in the mar-a-lago cases. the one thing we know is jack smith, the special counsel, doesn t want to s get into this trap, into sort of the bond trap of having there being a revisiting of these very lenient bond terms. trump was virtually no conditions were imposed on his bond because smith understands the potential problems with this. i think the judge also in that