Trump lawyer: Fulton RICO would be 'election interference'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Updated 1 hour ago


Holding Donald Trump’s election interference trial next August would amount to serious “election interference,” the former president’s lead Atlanta attorney told a Fulton County judge on Friday. Making his courtroom debut for Trump, attorney Steve Sadow said the timing proposed by prosecutors — in which the Georgia racketeering case would begin just three months before the general election — would restrict Trump’s ability to campaign for a return trip to the White House. Trump is facing 13 felony charges in Fulton County.

“Can you imagine the notion of a Republican nominee for president not being able to campaign for the presidency because he is, in some form or fashion, in a courtroom defending himself?” Sadow told Judge Scott McAfee. “That would be the most effective election interference in the history of the United States.”

Sadow’s remarks came in the middle of a day-long hearing in which McAfee calmly and methodically waded through more than a half-dozen procedural motions from Trump and a handful of other co-defendants, many seeking to dismiss various counts of the indictment. The judge also asked Fulton prosecutors to expand on their recent proposal to try Trump and his 14 co-defendants beginning on Aug. 5, 2024.

Prosecutors previously said they expect the case would take about four months to try, excluding jury selection, which means it would be underway on Election Day. In his response to Sadow, special prosecutor Nathan Wade insisted that “this trial does not constitute election interference.” “This is moving forward with the business of Fulton County. I don’t think that it in any way impedes defendant Trump’s ability to campaign or do whatever he needs to do in order to seek office,” Wade said.

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[bluestarone]

1. Best answer?

Move the fucking trial up to Jan.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Or force Cannon (FL classified docs) to swap dates with Georgia. . . . nt

[Kennah]

2. It's election intercourse, Donnie, because you're fucked

[ZonkerHarris]

3. claiming his right to run for office is bigger than his criminal accountability is bonkers

but go for it lawyer boys
you still aint getting paid

[malthaussen]

4. The word "bullshit" comes to mind.

I'm tellin' ya, we've got to remove this "Presidential immunity" idea. A crook is a crook.

-- Mal

[NBachers]

5. So *rump can't be accused of election interference because trying him for election interference is election interference

[EndlessWire]

7. Good post. n/t

[Mz Pip]

6. What a joke

Trump isn’t required to run for president. It’s totally optional.

[EndlessWire]

8. I wish we could know

what J. McAfee thinks when he hears arguments like this. It's interesting to see yet another hapless tRump attorney putting forth stupid arguments. Sure sounds like tRump directed it, because it defies logic. They have no apparent defense, thus silly shit that is disgusting for a professional.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Declaring candidacy is not get-out-of-jail-free card. . . nt

[ancianita]

11. Elections don't trump the Constitution.

[republianmushroom]

12. 'RICO would be 'election interference', NO, but it will be justice.

trump and his lawyers can't handle that.

[Torchlight]

13. I read it as "My campaign will interfere with the RICO prosecutions"

Once I began switching nouns and pronouns with each other in his sentences, they become a bit more telling (and accurate, but that's a damnably low bar for him).

Kinda think his campaign is nothing more than tools to use against the court.