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
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