Of course, even in this serious moment, donald trump try to get the upper hand, submitting height and width measurements for his booking record that basically matched the statistics of nfl quarterbacks, or factor chris hemsworth, or boxer muhammad ali. trump and his 18 codefendants all met the friday noon deadline to surrender at the fulton county jail, and cracks are already emerging within that group. take, for example, kenneth the lawyer associated with trump s campaign, who allegedly crafted the legal plan behind the so-called fake electors scheme. he has a trial date set for october 23rd, after requesting a speedy trial. the october trial date applies only to him at this point. late last night, sydney powell filed a similar motion for a speedy trial, and earlier today john eastman s lawyer, harvey silverglade, told nbc news that his client is likely to pursue that path too. now, those moves only
The october trial date applies only to him at this point. late last night, sydney powell filed a similar motion for a speedy trial, and earlier today john eastman s lawyer, harvey silverglade, told nbc news that his client is likely to pursue that path too. now, those moves only constitute the smaller cracks that were highlighting. the former president of the republican party of georgia, david schaffer, he claimed in a court filing that he and a delegation of fake electors who were charged, quote, acted at the direction of the incumbent president and other federal leaders. and echoing that, is a georgia republican charged alongside trump, saying that he signed false papers claiming to be a legitimate presidential electorate trump s direction. now the defendants haven t even been arraigned yet, and already the lower level alleged offenders are pointing fingers at the big guys up top. this, ahead of another massive week of legal developments that we re expecting. you ve got five defend
Scheme. he has a trial date set for october 23rd, after requesting a speedy trial. the october trial date applies only to him at this point. late last night, sydney powell filed a similar motion for a speedy trial, and earlier today john eastman s lawyer, harvey silverglade, told nbc news that his client is likely to pursue that path too. now, those moves only constitute the smaller cracks that were highlighting. the former president of the republican party of georgia, david schaffer, he claimed in a court filing that he and a delegation of fake electors who were charged, quote, acted at the direction of the incumbent president and other federal leaders. and echoing that, is a georgia republican charged alongside trump, saying that he signed false papers claiming to be a legitimate presidential electorate trump s direction. now, the defendant said that and already the lower level alleged offenders are pointing fingers at the big guys up top. this, ahead of another massive week of l
Of the georgia indictment of donald trump. mr. trump s motorcade arrived at the newark new jersey airport a few minutes ago. pretty soon he will be wheels up, flying privately to atlanta, before surrendering at the fulton county jail. one of his co-defendants is a gentleman named john eastman, an attorney. his attorney harvey silverglade joins us now. thank you for joining us. i want to get your reaction to the trial start day of october 23rd. what do you make of that? it s never going to happen. what do you think would be a more reasonable start date? i would say this case will be start trial anywhere from 18 to 24 months from now. another co-conspirator, ken
Undid a mistake that president bush had me and then you get to joe arpaio, refuse today honor court order, that was a different thing, what about these individual cases, you list them, i agree with you that he is sending a message but are these justifiable cases do you think just on the standard of does this increase respect for the rule of law? well, look, paul, this is a complicated subject, danesh dsuoza for violations and martha stewart, insider trading, rod for political corruption, now in every one of those cases we have editorialized that there are not clear lines on some of these issues, you want to respect the rule of law but as the attorney harvey silverglade, there are