Posted on 08/10/2023 1:19:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Special Counsel Jack Smith told a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that prosecutors want to start the trial of former President Donald Trump on January 2, 2024, right before the Iowa caucuses launch the Republican presidential primary.
Fox News reported:
Special Counsel Jack Smith proposed to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial in January 2024 for the charges he’s facing in relation to the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
“The Government proposes that trial begin on January 2, 2024, and estimates that its case in chief will take no longer than four to six weeks,” the filing on Thursday states.
As Breitbart News has noted, Trump faces four charges related to his challenges to the 2020 election result, and the resulting riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. One of the four charges carries a potential death penalty if Trump were to be convicted.
Smith faces accusations from critics that he is shaping his prosecution to interfere with the 2024 election. The judge in the “documents” case in federal court in Miami set that trial date in May 2024 — after most of the GOP primaries will have been held.
Breitbart News has noted a pattern in which the government announces indictments or actions against Trump the day of, or after, damaging revelations about the Biden family. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee revealed bank records that show the Bidens received $20 million from the foreign partners of Hunter Biden, prior to meetings with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
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I’m looking forward to the acquittal. I’m unsure why so many have so little faith in trump.
Too close to the election, sorry jack.
In my opinion that sort of obvious meddling will just be bulletin board material for Trump to use in his campaigning. That holds doubly true even if they try to anti-First Amendment him by telling him not to mention it.
“will take no longer than four to six weeks”
How long does it take to say “Orange Man Bad”?
Smells like election interference.
This clown is material for lots of SNL skits.
Jack Smith should be in prison for false charges
He’s a POS
“two weeks to flatten the curve”
How about Biden, or Hunter, or Jean marie the french lesbian, the material would be hilarious, I could write it.
If it’s “not political”, then they would have no objection to postponing the trial until after the election.
What’s the hurry? Trump has been walking free for the last 3 years and the United States has not yet collapsed.
It’s not a lack of faith in Trump. It’s a lack of faith in the fairness of a Washington D.C. jury pool.
Well, maybe they can gag Trump. They can’t gag half the country though. Let’s see them try.
Clown or not the Smitty doofus is doing a lot of damage. What I’m not figgering out is how he is able to start so many fights, valid or not? Durham had the exact same authority, budget, and huge staff that Smitty has but couldn’t get out of his own way. At an absolute minimum he should have been prosecuting the lyingsobs who got the illegal FISA warrants. But, nnnooooo, he couldn’t even get that done.
4 to 6 weeks just to present their case.
If you want to put an actual conspirator on trial, it should be Jackass Smith himself with his co-conspirators Garland and Biden, and dozens of others.
They are all lesbian carpet munchers.
It's a matter of absolute certainty regarding the unfairness of a Washington DC jury pool.
There is no Constitutional bar to running for president from prison. It's been done before. (In the US, not just in other banana republics.)
Question for FReeper attorneys:
Since Roberts rides herd on the DC Circuit, isn’t it up to him to stop or manage this atrocity?
>I’m looking forward to the acquittal. I’m unsure why so many have so little faith in trump.
Yeah, the Georgia SC will kill the Fani trial and the Jack Smith ones will get blowback as more and more evidence of voter fraud comes out. Add to this the end of the Ukrainian war with Russia victorious and a bad fall recession, and the DNC are going to be in the same place the GOP was in 2008.
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