State. both have much to teach us about the status of defending trump tonight. candidate defendant, i ll be watching. thank you, alex. raking news about defendant trump at this hour, he appears to have violated the judge s gag order on mentions and attacks of jurors in this case. on donald trump social media website tonight, donald trump reposted something posted by the eight p.m. host on fox, jesse waters, jesse waters says, they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the trump jury and there s donald trump, himself, posting that on social media tonight, posting it for the jurors in his case to see, calling them liberal activists
The new york trial. you can see what s coming down with the trials, the primary calendar. there are many, many things facing this candidate defendant. there just aren t many wide open windows, so the defendant candidate will be facing civil trials, debates and primaries. the federal trial set one day before super tuesday. precedents we have and reporting available suggests president trump would under the norm rules have to be present in person for his criminal trials, some of which could clearly stretch weeks at a time, as politico put it. as for the fairness to this defendant, the federal judge also addressed these trump lawyer s claims that the plan here is, quote, too fast to be fair. that s kind of what they were arguing, the show trial thing. here s what the judge said. a trial start date of march 4th