Trump's Trials: Should the Jan 6 trial be televised?
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🗓️ 9 December 2023
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Summary
This week we focus on the January 6th federal election interference case led by special counsel Jack Smith. The case is scheduled to go to trial in March in Washington, D.C., and it might be coming to a TV near you.
Yes, Trump and some media outlets are requesting cameras in the courtroom. We'll talk about how likely that is, how it could impact the case and the campaign, plus some news from a couple of key swing states.
Topics include:
- How televising the trial could help and hurt Trump
- Prosecution and defense strategies for the federal election interference case
- Pro-Trump electors from Wisconsin admit President Biden won the 2020 election
- Pro-Trump electors criminally indicted in Nevada over attempts to overturn Biden's 2020 win
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Scott Detro and I'm here to share the latest episode in another |
| 0:03.5 | podcast that I host called Trump's Trials or each week we break down the big news |
| 0:08.3 | from former President Trump's legal and civil cases and talk about what those cases mean for democracy. |
| 0:14.0 | Thanks for listening and we will be back in your feed tomorrow with our usual Sunday episode of |
| 0:18.8 | Consider This. |
| 0:19.8 | Court TV, that's a former President Donald Trump would like his trials to play out in front of Americans. |
| 0:26.7 | From NPR, this is Trump's trials. I'm Scott Deathcrow. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a persecution, felony violations for national security laws. |
| 0:34.0 | We need one more indictment. |
| 0:36.0 | Criminal conspiracy to close out this election. |
| 0:39.0 | He actually just stormed out of the courtroom. |
| 0:41.0 | Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. |
| 0:47.0 | Once a week we talk through the latest developments in the legal trials of |
| 0:50.2 | former President Donald Trump, all playing out as he runs for President again. |
| 0:55.0 | This week we're focusing on the federal election interference case that'll be held in DC. |
| 0:59.7 | It's led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and as of right now, it is set to be the first case to go to trial. |
| 1:05.5 | And even as Trump's legal team tries to delay it, it is also pushing for the trial to be televised, |
| 1:11.0 | which would be an enormous departure from how federal cases typically go. |
| 1:14.4 | We'll talk about that, as well as some news from the past week on the fake elector efforts |
| 1:18.6 | in a couple of states. |
| 1:20.1 | And as always, I am joined by my colleague and friend and person I complain to on |
| 1:24.4 | Slack a lot senior political editor and correspondent Dominico Montanaro. |
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