The defense, in one way or another in this federal case, and the other today, saying not so fast. Today, the special counsel, asked for a january 2nd trial date in the election subversion case, which had said partake as little as four weeks. The former president , who is expected to challenge that, took the first step tonight in his social network. Quoting now, but leaving out some of the personal tax on smith and president biden. Quote, only an Out Of Touch Lunatic would ask for such a date. One day, into the new year, and maximum election interference with iowa. Now whatever you make of that, in particular the, the proposed date is yet another entry on what is already a very crowded calendar. Take a look. Surrounding that date are the trump organizations Civil Fraud Trial this october, the e. Jean carroll defamation trial january 15th. That is the same day of the iowa caucuses. Super tuesday, march 5th, is just ten days before march 15th, manhattan hush money trial. In the maralago d
Her from office. Basically because he can. State attorney will join me tonight. Also new details on a possible fourth indictment against donald trump in georgia. Which could come in a matter of days. What fani willis could charge him with. Plus, who his codefendants might be. Another big win for democracy. Proposed constitutional change in ohio meant to thwart the will of the public on abortion and other major issues loses by a mile. Clearly we have a lot to get to tonight as you can see. But we begin with an alarming genuinely frightening news. Frightening item of news regarding violent threats against the president of the United States, joe biden. Vice president Kamala Harris and other elected officials. Threats that appear to be tied to Donald Trumps mounting legal peril. Threats came from a utah man named craig d. Robertson, who will not get to plead his case in court because he was shot and killed today by the fbi as they were attempting to execute an Arrest Warrant. But what he d
and he s out of there, so i removed her from her post. i m not just gonna sit there and take that. [applause] desantis fired state attorney wednesday, saying in an executive order, the orlando area prosecute did not pursue mandatory sentences for gun crimes and drug trafficking. he also said she was quote, derelict, in prosecuting serious crimes by juvenile offenders. in his order, he said that she, quote, neglect knew of duty and competence. now, florida s constitution allows governors to remove elected officials for a number of reasons. but no previous ford executive has interpreted that our nearly as broadly. last year, desantis removed another democratic state attorney who had promised to not prosecute those who seek or perform abortions, as well as those who provide gender affirming treatments. a clear challenge to desantis, in laws that he has backed.
shows him in single digits. desantis suspended worrell, the only black woman serving as a local prosecutor in florida for a pattern of avoiding mandatory minimum sentences and derelict in prosecuting serious crimes by juvenile defenders. crime in her district has gone down. she is defending her prosecutorial approach of going after violent offenders and giving some individuals a second chance. she s the second progressive prosecutor ron desantis has suspended. the first was andrew warren after he signed a letter with other prosecutors saying they wouldn t use their offices to prosecute abortion cases. nbc news reports that last year desantis actually orders his staff to bring him the names of progressive prosecutors. state attorney monique worrell joins me now. state attorney worrell, thank you for being here. do you remember your margin of victory when you were elected to