Wasnt just showing up for court. Numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominic fox and Qanon Activist who live streamed the storming of the capitol, a jared wise, a former fbi agent charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. This is all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now, there were no Courtroom Cameras today, but thanks to courtroom sketch artist bill hennessy, we know what it looks like when a former president of the United States appeared in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. There were more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases, judges who showed up today in plain clothes as spectators for trumps arraignment. The judge presiding over the arraignment was a New York State judge inasmuch he read the c
he was being arraigned. for a while it wasn t clear he was actually going to be charged in this case. it is so significant to even be at this point because for so long it was like, whoa exactly. it was not even clear he was the target much less we d be at a point. the other thing that makes this different is the mar-a-lago indictment which is full of information. certainly there are bread crumbs. but there s a lot not even here. for sure. but a lot of it we do know because of the house investigation into january 6th. and i wonder how that reality dove tails with the sort of line of argument from the trump campaign right now in court today this discovery process is going to be a beast. they re already setting the stage for trying to push this off as long as possible. the reality is of course there s going to be new information, but a lot of the stuff has already been litigated in court.