Mar an lago. he also waives his right to the appear in court for an arraignment next week. and the new codefendant is expected to attend the arraignment next thursday in florida. much more news ahead for us this friday. trump lawyers hinting at a first amendment defense in the, and why that could be debt on arrival already. next hour. deadline: white house starts after a quick break. deadline: white house starts after a quick break. the first e you heard of a town named dinosaur, colorado. we just got an order from dinosaur, colorado. start an easy to build, powerful website for free with a partner that always puts you first. start for free at godaddy.com
The best check on this, this is something one of our greatest justices said, sunlight is the best disinfectant. let the american people see this trial for themselves day in and day out and make their own determinations. we shouldn t be relegated to second-hand descriptions and some courtroom sketches of what s going on in the courtroom. glenn, do you think it makes a difference for people to watch it, hear it, see it, versus what we know will happen, which is to be exposed to the spin machine that happens outside of the courtroom? absolutely, alicia, i agree with everything in neal s excellent op-ed. and let me make two points. first of all, if cameras are not permitted in the courtroom donald trump and his criminal defense attorneys and donald trump s lackeys and sycophants at the end of every trial day will spin what happened in trial. they will probably come out and say what a great day it was for donald trump, you know, the evidence is falling apart, that the prosecution is int
Will also come from some of his employees, it will potentially come from some of his family members, some of his attorneys. i mean, donald trump really has no viable defense, which is why i agree that he will be playing for a hung jury. he may look to try to confuse just one juror into voting not guilty. the beauty of a hung jury, not that there s much beautiful about it, is jack smith will get to retry the case and having handled lots of retrials, i like to think that i usually did it a little bit better the second time around because i learned from the mistakes that i made in the first trial. so this is going to be a real uphill battle for donald trump. katie, there s some new reporting in the washington post about what happens if trump is convicted in any of the cases he s facing which is still very far off. if convicted in any of the three criminal cases he is now facing, donald trump may be able to influence whether he goes to prison and what his stay there
Suggests speech that s evidence of other criminal activity isn t protected in this sort of way. i do think the dynamics will be interestingly overlapping. the free speech/first amendment defense is a defense i had some first amendment right to speak in a particular way, and the reliance on an attorney defense is a defense that i had a right to rely on other people s communications. they are also riddle with difficulties that i think folks will be poke holes at. as all of these theories are being workshopped, you have trump very active on social media, he posted if you go after me, i m coming after you.
Merit. he anticipated this defense, saying he had every right to speak publicly and make statement, but the former president went beyond that. smith says, quote, each of these conspiracies, which built on the widespread mistrust the president was creating about election fraud started a bedrocks function of the united states government. the federal government function, meaning it was the former president s actions, not his words, that trump is being charmed for. our friend and former u.s. attorney barbara mcconveyed put it, the first amendment threat is a loser. no right is absolute. by this logic all that osama bin laden did on 9/11 was engage in speech. axios provides this context.