Donald Trump’s lawyer John Lauro spent the weekend shouting from the rooftops that he intends to try the January 6 case in the court of public opinion, rather than in the US District Court of the District of Columbia.
In the course of a “full Ginsburg” on the Sunday news shows, he spouted a litany of bizarre claims about “aspirational” coups, “technical violations” of the Constitution, and transferring the trial to West Virginia for “diversity.” And he whined into each and every microphone about the gross unfairness of the government’s proposed protective order, which would bar Trump from publishing discovery materials on social media.
“What the Biden administration is trying to do is prevent the press from learning about exculpatory and helpful information, evidence that the people have a right to know about,” he huffed on ABC.
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“I’m shocked that all the networks haven’t lined up and filed pleadings already, objecting to this very broad attempt by the Biden administration to keep information away from the American people during the election season,” he bleated on Fox. “The American people have a right to know. Of course, Joe Biden doesn’t want that to happen.”
“President Trump is saying that if there’s evidence out there that the government has that’s exculpatory or informative, then the press has a right to know, but the Biden administration doesn’t want the press to...
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