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
Jurist presiding over this case. katie, speaking of trump s attorneys there s what they say in the courtroom and there is what they say on cable news. i want to play something for you that trump s attorney john lauro said on fox news last night defending what his client donald j. trump tried to do on january 6th. but ultimately what president trump said is let s go with option d, let s just halt, let s just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to the as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly. that s constitutional law. that s not an issue of criminal activity. and here is a bit of what prosecutors allege in the indictment, this is from a january 4th meeting, quote, the defendant and co-conspirator 2 then asked the vice president to either unilaterally reject the legitimate electors from the seven targeted state or send the question of which state was legitimate to the targeted state s legislatures.