where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s guilt has already been determined. these decisions will only settle the punish.
It s like frank. be there, be wild. it s calling on his supporters to do something. too frequently over the last six, seven years, they have done something. president biden said you can t be proinsurrectionist and pro american. that seems like a pretty simple dichotomy. yes, absolutely right. sorry. no, it does. i m happy to see that the biden campaign, president biden has been out there aggressively prosecuting that case. i think looking that the with a political hat on, you know, there s some who have argued that pro-democracy is a little too ephemeral of a topic and that, you know, some kitchen-table issues, and i don t think that s true. that didn t bear out in the midterms. i think when it comes to the threats to our democracy, president biden has been strong on this. also political violence affects everybody.
Ave date against him. that s not stopped a number of republicans including proinsurrectionist josh hawley to call on him to drop out of the race. naturally that didn t stop fredo corleone, done jr., who use joined him at the gun range. liberals every beware. let s not forget about the original unhinged conspiracy theorist from kentucky rand paul. he s a good example of how feckless and anti-democratic the slate of candidates will be in office.
Justice for j-6 planned over the next month or so so this is putting gop leaders in a tough spot because on the the one hand they don t want to be seen as proinsurrectionist but they are dealing with a base that increasingly sympathetic toward the rioters and believe the attack was justified. adam kinzinger, who voted to impeach trump and serves on the committee investigating the attacks, was asked about this on new day. take a listen. if we have to have a fence put up every time someone goes to rally it is final for the republican party to denounce milit militia-ism, and see we take our disagreements in congress and we don t doo this violently. reporter: so even if