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
To worry that trump is going to perjure himself and commit an additional crime on the stand. so just the task of proving it up, this mens rea defense is going to be really hard. maybe trump can call someone else, i don t know, ma landia or someone who is say he told me that he legitimately won but i don t think that s going to be all that compelling to a jury because the jury is going to ask if he really thought that why isn t he saying it, why is someone else saying it for him. glenn, to this question about trump s grasp of reality i want you to take a listen to something chris christie who to say to journalist kara swisher on her podcast. have you been questioned in the investigations? questioned in any investigations. one of them. which one? i can t say. okay. but one of them. one of them. uh-huh. and what was the broad idea? they were trying to get a handle on what i knew about his