Much of Donald Trump’s legal strategy in his federal 2020 election interference case has, so far, centered around trying to delay the start of his March trial until after the November presidential election.
But in recent court filings, and according to sources familiar with the Trump team’s approach, other defense strategies have emerged – namely of absolving Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, of responsibility for the US Capitol attack and positioning him as a victim of disinformation and overzealous government investigators.
Two under-the-radar court filings from Trump’s team in late November offered the clearest glimpse yet into what the former president’s lawyers may try to argue before a jury in the historic case. The filings say that his lawyers hope during the trial to point to people in the federal government he suspects are biased toward him, to foreign influence, and to election disinformation that led him to believe the 2020 contest was stolen.
If Trump is so innocent of all of these charges, why is he so afraid of going in front of a jury of his peers?
I can’t wait for him to demand the jury be entirely ex presidents as those are his peers, then call for a mistrial because there are only 4 jurors (excluding Biden as current president).
If I were Biden, and his age, I’d resign just to be on that jury.
If a VP got to pick a new VP without needing the house and Senate, Harris could potentially then pick a VP, then resign as well, to help fill the jury pool, this could happen several times, and would be comical.