Published November 13, 2023
Donald Trump is turning the Democrats’ own game against them.
Ever since he descended the Trump Tower escalator in 2015 to declare he was running for the White House, the 45th president has rarely been on the same side as the establishment media, but when it comes to his upcoming criminal case in a Washington, D.C., courtroom, they suddenly have common cause.
Trump wants the “travesty” of his trial on television — and his legal team is demanding that the judge go along.
In a blistering motion filed Friday, Trump’s attorneys asked Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan to agree to a request by news organizations seeking an exception to the ban on cameras in federal courtrooms because “[e]very person in America, and beyond, should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand and watch as, if there is a trial, President Trump exonerates himself of these baseless and politically motivated charges.”
That’s exactly what special counsel Jack Smith does not want to happen.
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SOURCE: www.westernjournal.com
RELATED: Special counsel accuses Trump of trying to turn 2020 election trial into ‘media event’ with ‘carnival atmosphere’
Published November 13, 2023
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to turn his 2020 election fraud trial into a “media event”with a “carnival atmosphere,” according to federal prosecutors, who urged the judge overseeing the case to bar cameras from the courtroom on Monday.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team made the allegation to District Judge Tanya Chutkan in response to a Friday filing from the ex-president’s lawyers, who argued in support of a motion to permit audio and video recording of Trump’s Washington, DC trial.
“The defendant’s response does not cite a single rule or case in support of his position, because there are none,” Smith’s team wrote in the four-page filing. “Instead, decrying the alleged unfairness of the unequivocal and constitutionally-sound broadcast prohibition that has governed federal criminal trials — no matter the defendant — for decades, the defendant’s response is a transparent effort to demand special treatment, try his case in the courtroom of public opinion, and turn his trial into a media event.”
“The Court should reject this attempted distraction and deny the applications,” the brief states.
Smith’s team goes on to argue that Trump, 77, “desires instead to create a carnival atmosphere from which he hopes to profit by distracting, like many fraud defendants try to do, from the charges against him.”
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SOURCE: www.nypost.com
RELATED: New book details Trump lawyers’ secret meeting with Jack Smith ahead of DC indictment
ABC’s Jonathan Karl offers an account of a fateful July 27 meeting in his forthcoming book.
Published November 13, 2023
Jack Smith’s public image, shaped by his near invisibility since taking over the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, has been that of a sullen, brooding and hard-charging prosecutor.
His steely glare, on display in two arraignments of the former president and in a handful of public photos and videos, has contributed to a sort of mythology around the veteran corruption prosecutor.
And when Smith met privately with Trump’s lawyers — who were making their final bid to stave off an indictment in Washington, D.C. — he didn’t break character.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl offers an account of the fateful July 27 meeting in his forthcoming book, “Tired of Winning,” that suggests Smith took the same wordless, unsmiling approach to Trump’s attorneys that he’s presented in his few public appearances.
Smith, joined by deputies J.P. Cooney and Ray Hulser — both veteran public corruption prosecutors — greeted Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro, who had started on the job less than two weeks earlier.
“After some short pleasantries, Smith invited the Trump lawyers to sit at the conference table and offered them some water to drink,” Karl writes.
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SOURCE: www.politico.com
