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
sentence and non-prison sentences virtually the same. and in fact, a prison sentence, maybe he gets a sentence, but they expect, they hoped that it would be stayed immediately and that it would not go into effect. and so this is all i guess short-term political strategy i still think that we should just be aware that there is also a very good possibility that he does not get a prison sentence let s hear right. just based on the facts of this particular case but the fact that so many trump allies are suggesting to me that they see present in his feature, they think that that is going to be just a shot of adrenaline into the republican base. and that s all that is on their minds at this point. look verdict has calmed down. they re going to take what they ve got and run with it and they think that this is going to be the motivating factor we heard one republican hugh hewitt a commentator, say, this is almost like the dobbs decision for democrats. i don t know if that is true int
donald trump is sentenced to something like home confinement, that virtually is binge-watch netflix, in order that is no kind of punishment, and most importantly, that does not deter the dictator, and that is why punishment is, you, know unauthorized part of the sentencing calculus. you have to deter tomorrow s criminal politicians, from doing what donald trump did yesterday. so i part ways with bill barr on a lot of things. and particularly, the need to punish democracy busting crimes. wow, i m not sure donald trump knows how to use doordash, and even on netflix, with today s remote controls, hdmi one, cable box, it is pretty confusing. so who knows. peter baker, katie, glenn kirschner, i m not letting you leave just yet. coming up, donald trump seems to have already broken the most important commission of his
him going to sentencing, if donald trump is sentenced to something like home confinement, that virtually is binge-watch netflix, in order that is no kind of punishment, and most importantly, that does not deter the dictator, and that is why punishment is, you, know unauthorized part of the sentencing calculus. you have to deter tomorrow s criminal politicians, from doing what donald trump did yesterday. so i part ways with bill barr on a lot of things. and particularly, the need to punish democracy busting crimes. wow, i m not sure donald trump knows how to use doordash, and even on netflix, with today s remote controls, hdmi one, cable box, it is pretty confusing. so who knows. peter baker, katie, glenn