Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
think the judge is going to be very savvy litigator, a lot of experience. i think what she is going to do is instead of trying to take actions based on his [inaudible] i think she will continue to rule against him, she s going to continue to accelerate the trial date. ultimately, from my perspective, she s going to teach him ultimately that at the end of the day she is the decider and there is a real big consequence that comes if you are going to try to constantly the judges rule. i think it ll be interact, and as a result of him flaunting and going against the judges rules, i suspect he will get a speedier and speedier trial. that decision recently to deny a motion for just a three-day extension i think is a preview of what is to come. judge cordell, we have the d. a. alvin bragg prosecution of trump in manhattan. we have a possible indictment
from d. a. fani willis in fulton county, georgia, coming perhaps any day now. both bragg and willis have said they will defer to jack smith on the timeline of trials. how quickly do you think judge chutkan could get this trial going? ronaldo mentioned a speedier trial. it s perhaps the most important trial of all. how quickly could get started? how quickly could be completed, even, given next november s the election? every defendant is entitled to a speedy trial. in this instance, when you have a very weak defense, what you do is delay. so it is up to the judge to move things along. however, the judge has to make sure that the defense has had the time to review all the discovery and get things in order. while there is a push, there are certain rights that have to be looked at. it is really interesting. everyone talks about the federal case. but it is the state course case where donald trump. , if he is convicted, has no way of getting out, no way around it. he can t use any kind of
very savvy litigator, a lot of experience. i think what she is going to do is instead of trying to take actions based on his [inaudible] i think she will continue to rule against him, she s going to continue to accelerate the trial date. ultimately, from my perspective, she s going to teach him ultimately that at the end of the day she is the decider and there is a real big consequence that comes if you are going to try to constantly the judges rule. i think it ll be interact, and as a result of him flaunting and going against the judges rules, i suspect he will get a speedier and speedier trial. that decision recently to deny a motion for just a three-day extension i think is a preview of what is to come. judge cordell, we have the d.a. alvin bragg prosecution of trump in manhattan. we have a possible indictment from d.a. fani willis in fulton