Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
Harry litman, and former congressman from florida, msnbc contributor, david jolley, it s good to see you all. i want you to break down buy the first amendment defense is wrong here. yes. we, the indictment rightly acknowledges that trump had a first amendment right to talk about, even to like about the election. the constitution does broadly protect and broadly guarantee that the government won t punish us for our political speech, even if it s false, but speeches routinely are used as evidence of other criminality activity that the government can and must punish. so, for example, if you were charged with conspiring to rob a bank, you couldn t invote a first amendment defense on the grounds you were exercising your free speech right to tell the getaway driver to come around back or the teller to stick em