Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer John Lauro came into Monday’s hearing, scheduled to set the trial date in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case, extremely hot.
As part of the Trump defense team’s push to delay the start of a trial in the case against Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Lauro began his arguments Monday morning with a raised voice and a visibly upset demeanor.
Lauro repeatedly pressed that he disagreed with the government’s argument that the defense has already had access to a large chunk of the discovery because it has been publicly available. Raising his voice and gesticulating aggressively, he called the argument “absurd and ridiculous.”
That was just the first time he was warned to “take the temperature down.”
The tactic was a classic in the Trumpian sphere with histrionics likely intended at least in part for a certain audience outside the courtroom. Lauro came out the gate aggressively, accusing prosecutors of going after an “innocent” man in “retaliation” for MAGAworld’s obsessive attacks on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Lauro also argued a two-year delay was necessary in order for his team to put together an adequate defense.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan didn’t bite: she ultimately set the trial date for March 4, 2024, dismissing the former president’s absurd request to delay the trial until 2026.
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