Most likely court tactic for Trump: Delay, delay, delay (and do not take the stand)
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Around noon today, Donald Trump left his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey. |
| 0:06.0 | He got on his Trump plane at Newark International Airport and he flew back to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:12.0 | And when Trump arrived there today today he wasn't just showing up for |
| 0:15.3 | court he was returning to the scene of the alleged crime the federal courthouse where |
| 0:20.9 | Trump was arraigned today sits near both the ellipse, which is where Trump riled up the crowds on January 6th, and the Capitol Plaza, where those same riders stormed the where numerous January 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing |
| 0:44.7 | Trump's arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including Dominic |
| 0:49.1 | Box, a Q-Anon activist who live streamed the storming of the capital and |
| 0:53.5 | Jared Wies a former FBI agent who was charged with assaulting a police officer |
| 0:58.7 | on January 6th. So this was all very much a trip down memory lane for Mr. Trump. |
| 1:05.0 | Now there were no courtroom cameras today but thanks to courtroom sketch artist Bill |
| 1:10.1 | Hennessy we know what it looked like when a former president of the United States |
| 1:14.8 | appeared in court to be formerly and federally charged for trying to subvert American democracy. |
| 1:22.4 | There were more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment, including several of the federal |
| 1:27.3 | judges who have been presiding over other January 6 cases. |
| 1:31.7 | Judges who showed up today in plain clothes as spectators for Trump's |
| 1:36.1 | arraignment. The judge presiding over today's arraignment was US magistrate |
| 1:41.0 | Judge Moxila Opadia. |
| 1:43.3 | She read the charges against Trump allowed in court, |
| 1:45.6 | and Mr. Trump pleaded not guilty to all four felony charges. |
| 1:50.1 | And then the judge gave Mr. Trump a warning. |
| 1:53.3 | Quote, if you fail to comply with any of your conditions of release, |
| 1:57.2 | a warrant may be issued for your arrest, |
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