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In the late Friday filing, Trump argued that prosecutors want the trial held "in darkness" as part of what he claims is a politically motivated effort by President Joe Biden's administration to undermine his bid for re-election next year.

In his latest filing by his lawyers, John Lauro and Todd Blanche, Trump endorsed requests by media organizations that U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan allow live television coverage of the trial.

"Every person in America, and beyond, should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand and watch as, if there is a trial, President Trump exonerates himself of these baseless and politically motivated charges," said the filing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a dangerous catch-22 because televising the trial will only help his followers who will not see the truth being put forward, only finding more reason to believe in his "martyrdom" bullshit.

As it stands we have multiple top-notch journalists from world-wide news sites reporting on what happens, and imo that's good enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's not that. What's going to happen is that Faux is going to go through that days testimony and ~~create propaganda films~~ cherry-pick and distort until they have a narrative that says all liberals are evil people who get off on persecuting Trump and the good god-fearing America-loving, Midwesterners and Southerners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We already have excellent reporting on Trump's civil trial going on right now, proving that it can be done well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but Fox has no incentive to do it well. They have incentive to make an atrocity, and televising it gives them the means to do it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

And Fauks is doing that now. So what would be different in a criminal trial?