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
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba
Supremacy clause. mark meadows removal thing, chris, it s a test balloon, if you may, because if mark meadows can get the case removed a federal court on the grounds that he s a federal official and if he can sustain a dismissal, which i can tell you right now chris, is not gonna happen on a monday, then perhaps, as we have seen, people like david schaffer and jeffrey clark, they ve also filed notices of removal, they re also codefendants with donald trump here in fulton county. they have also filed notices and we re going to see, and evidently, john eastman, sydney powell, a whole lot of people try that theory out. of course david schaffer was not a federal official. he s actually test ballooning his own bizarre theory. he says as a contingent elector, presidential elector, i am afforded the protections that we give it to me under the constitution. so there s a lot that that play. the last thing i ll tell you, chris, very quickly, is that an evidentiary hearing is dangerous for any de
Chris, they ve been on notice. that indictment was unsealed late medina last week. to mark meadows s credit, i put that in quotes, he did move expeditiously to file a notice of removal. our viewers are aware that on this coming monday, august 28th at 10 am, a federal judge in the northern district of georgia will conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether or not mark meadows s claim of removal, because he was a federal official at the time of the conduct alleged in the indictment, that he is entitled to the removal of his case from state court into federal court. mark meadows also is making a move to dismiss all charges, saving running the gamut from due process, as well as the supremacy clause. mark meadows removal thing, chris, it s a test balloon, if you may, because if mark meadows can get the case removed a federal court on the grounds that he s a federal official and if he can sustain a dismissal, which i can tell you right now chris, is not gonna happen on a monday, the
Anybody that would be better than you for us to walk through. it s so, let s go to school. let s educate our viewers on removal. so, mark meadows, on august 15th, filed something called a notice of removal. he s claiming that he was a federal official at the time of the common that s being election the indictment that is brought by d a fani willis of fulton county. he is saying that a state prosecution should not happen because of a federal statute valence him to take that state prosecution and remove it into federal court. within 24 hours in a bomb appointed judge, steve jones, up in the northern district of georgia, says you know what? i actually want to have an evidentiary hearing on this issue, and i m setting it for august 28th. so joyce, let s talk about why this is such an important issue. because i know that donald trump and rudy giuliani and others are going to make this claim as well to get this state outside of the state in the federal system. right, so that s exactly what