Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
A lot of yesterday is this, as you say, change of venue, that the trial can t take place in washington, d.c. alicia, that is going nowhere fact, that the same argument that the special prosecutor in the george floyd murder where the city was a scene of violence for a long time right after the murder and the officers tried to change venue because of that, and the courts rejected that very quickly, basically because the legal rule is that the crime that you take the trial in the place that the crime occurred. that s what the constitution says. and the other point is sometimes if there s a lot of pretrial publicity in a particular place, then you can move the trial, but in the case like floyd and a case like january 6th and trump there s publicity everywhere about the trial in every nook and cranny. so what trump really wants and his lawyers, i think trump himself said this in a social media tweet, he said i want to move this to west virginia