Mock Trial: Is Trump Guilty in the January 6th Case?

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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After the 2020 election, former President Trump discredited the election results. The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and Trump’s federal indictment on four charges are tied to his claims. The defense claims proof is needed he had planned to commit a crime and he conducted himself under legal advice. The prosecution argues his actions showed criminal intent to defraud the U.S. and was done knowingly. Now we debate: Is Trump Guilty in the January 6th Case? Prosecutor: Lanny Davis, Attorney and Former Presidential Advisor Defense Attorney: Sara Azari, Criminal Defense Lawyer; Legal Analyst for NewsNation Judge's Chair: John Donvan, Moderator-In-Chief and Emmy award-winning journalist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	This is open to debate. I'm John Donovan. Hi everybody. There is going to be a trial in Washington DC expected to start
0:34.8	this year but we'll see on that the defendant Donald Trump. Now while the former
0:39.9	president is currently involved in several different court proceedings.
0:43.1	This one is the federal case,
0:45.1	charging him with various kinds of interference
0:47.7	in the 2020 election, culminating,
0:49.6	it is alleged, with an attempt to block the election certification three years ago this week on
0:54.0	January 6th the day the U.S. Capitol was invaded by his supporters. Our system presumes
1:00.3	that Donald Trump is innocent.
1:02.7	It is up to lawyers for the Department of Justice
1:04.6	to argue otherwise, and he will, of course,
1:06.6	have lawyers arguing his side.
1:09.1	It's those arguments we want to focus on today,
1:11.4	since thoughtful argument is our mission here at
1:14.2	open to debate. But for this one we're coming up with a new format new for us at least
1:19.0	to present something that we're calling a mock trial. In this case we have asked two attorneys to assume the roles of
1:26.5	Trump prosecution and Trump defense and to play out for us how they would make their
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