Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Donald trump is now seeking to delay his federal election interference trial until april of 2026. No, not next april 26, april 2026. That is almost three years from now. 17 months after the 2024 election. It is when his legal Team Proposed this evening in a court filing to the judge handling the case. They say, quote, must have adequate time to defend himself, citing the governments 11 and a half million pages of evidence, they said if the pages were stacked on top of one another, the result would be a tower taller than the Statue Of Liberty and the washington monument. Remember, jack smith has asked for Jury Selection to start in december, with a trial beginning on january 2nd of 2024. Meanwhile the former president has been speaking out against his four separate indictments. Today he told fox business, he wants his party to do a better job of defending him. It is just a continuation of silencing, they want to silence. You if you look, this
Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Donald trump is now seeking to delay his federal election interference trial until april of 2026. No, not next april 26, april 2026. That is almost three years from now. 17 months after the 2024 election. It is when his legal Team Proposed this evening in a court filing to the judge handling the case. They say, quote, must have adequate time to defend himself, citing the governments 11 and a half million pages of evidence, they said if the pages were stacked on top of one another, the result would be a tower taller than the Statue Of Liberty and the washington monument. Remember, jack smith has asked for Jury Selection to start in december, with a trial beginning on january 2nd of 2024. Meanwhile the former president has been speaking out against his four separate indictments. Today he told fox business, he wants his party to do a better job of defending him. It is just a continuation of silencing, they want to silence. You if you look, this
their safety is at risk. you know, staff, these are people, citizens doing their civic duty. it is not easy, trust, me when we call people for grand jury service, it is extremely disruptive to their lives. we have to step away from their jobs, stay way from their families, they have to spend days and days and days in windowless secure grand jury room swearing evidence of crime. that is not easy to do. and, then you have donald trump supporters doxxing them, putting their address, their pictures, their information into the public square. why? well, we know it is to get after them, intimidate, them threatened, them or perhaps worse. how does the system deal with it? i think you try to stop it before it ever occurs. there s another way to detain somebody pending trial, separate from what we just discussed, because donald trump
does when next has donald trump in court in front of her. what about keeping these down in georgia safe? there is some trump supporters who are targeting them, posting their supposed names and addresses, online george investigators are already working to respond to what they call credible threats how do the courts protect these jurors? these are every day americans taking their time, doing their civic, duty talk about patriotism, showing up for that is being a patriot and now there are safety as that risk. you know, staff, these are people, citizens doing their civic duty. it is not easy, trust, me when we call people for grand jury service, it is extremely disruptive to their lives. we have to step away from their jobs, stay way from their families, they have to spend days, and, days and days in windowless secure grand jury room swearing evidence of