Donald Trump seeks to dismiss election interference charges with claims of free speech

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today Donald Trump's attorney asked a GA judge to dismiss charges of election interference. He argued the indictment was based on Trump’s statements about the 2020 election that are protected under the First Amendment. Then in New York, Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined President Joe Biden for a record-breaking fundraiser. Plus, one-time crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing billions from his customers. Ayman Mohyeldin, Hugo Lowell, Molly Jong-Fast, Joyce Vance, Donna Edwards, David Jolly and Reid Hoffman join.

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0:00.0	Tonight Donald Trump's new bid to get his Georgia RICO case tossed
0:04.7	claiming his 2020 election lies were protected by the First Amendment
0:09.0	as Liz Cheney warns that a second Trump term would torch the Constitution.
0:14.0	Then, former Democratic presidents form a united front for a historic fundraiser
0:18.6	to keep Joe Biden in the White House.
0:21.1	Plus political mega donor and LinkedIn founder, Reed Hoffman, on the choice we face in
0:26.0	November and how AI could affect the election as the 11th hour gets underway on this
0:31.8	Thursday night.
0:33.0	Good evening everyone, I'm Aiman Wahidin in for Stephanie Rule we are now
0:43.5	222 days away from the presidential election and today one of Donald Trump's
0:49.4	attorneys argued the charges against him in the Georgia election
0:52.4	interference case
0:53.0	should be tossed because of the First Amendment.
0:57.0	Now, Trump's team says all the actions in those charges amount to
1:00.0	protect the political speech.
1:02.0	This is a move that already failed in the federal
1:05.3	election interference case. It is also part of the Trump strategy to file as many
1:09.5	motions as possible to delay the actual trials.
1:14.0	And Trump's busy legal schedule is now starting to help him.
1:17.0	Trump's team informed Judge Aileen Cannon that pretrial hearings in the classified documents case
1:22.0	have to be rescheduled because they conflict
1:26.0	with the hush money trial in New York.
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