'MAGA Freak Show': Trump and his lawyers reportedly have big plans for Jan. 6 trial
Donald Trump’s primary legal strategy regarding his four criminal indictments has so far been “delay, delay, delay,” in the hope that he can avoid any one conviction until after the November election. As The Washington Post noted last month, polls show that a criminal conviction would deal a major blow to Trump’s chances of winning the presidential race against President Joe Biden.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump, which charges the former president with four felony counts related to alleged criminal conduct aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election, is tentatively scheduled to begin on March 4. But that trial date is likely to be pushed back until the summer assuming there’s a relatively quick decision, potentially by the Supreme Court, on an appeal by Trump’s legal team positing that he should be immune from prosecution in the case because the conduct cited in Smith’s indictment happened while he was still president.
But if Trump actually goes on trial in the summer, it looks like his trial strategy will amount to throwing as much ketchup against the wall as possible in hopes that enough of it will stick.
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