The following is not a mouth typo Trump seeks his trial on
election interference charges to take place in 2026.
[LAUGH] Donald Trump says he'll be ready to go on trial on federal charges
over his bid to subvert the last election after this next election.
As soon as April 2026 rolls around,
citing extraordinary amounts of evidence boohoo, maybe?
Don't commit such extraordinary crimes, including a tranche of 11.5 million
pages that prosecutors handed over earlier this month.
Trump lawyers John Lauro and
Todd Blanche said in court papers filed Thursday that a 2.5 year delay
before picking a jury would properly factor in the complexity of the case.
The proposal is absurd.
The prosecutors are requesting a start date of January 2 of this coming year,
which is perhaps a touch quick, but the future of our nation and
democracy itself kind of hangs in the balance.
So a little speed might not hurt on account of urgency for saving the country.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has indicated she will set a trial date by August
28th coming up in just less than a couple of weeks.
His lawyers framed the decision in stark terms, however,
noting the unprecedented nature of a leading candidate for
president being prosecuted by the Justice Department led by his political opponent.
Trump's lawyers also pointed to typical lags in more routine criminal trials in
Washington, DC's.
Federal court quote in this district, ordinary order, when faced with
such overwhelming discovery, is to set a reasonable trial schedule.
Commensurate with the size and scope of discovery and
complexity of the legal issues.
Lauro Blanche wrote.
The government rejects this sensible approach.
Instead, it seeks a trial calendar more rapid than most no document misdemeanors,
requesting just four months from the beginning of discovery to jury selection.
Yeah, cuz it's far more urgent than a no document misdemeanor, you morons.
What is the harm, though, in having, I guess if you're wondering,
devil's advocate.
What's the harm in the trial being in two and
a half years in the middle of a very possible second Trump term as president?
What's the big deal?
Well, Trump could conceivably be back in the White House in January 2025.
If that happens and the case is still pending, he could instantly shut it down,
either by issuing himself a presidential pardon.
Or by appointing an attorney general who would agree to dismiss the charges.
Got it, copy that.
In their court filing Thursday, Trump's team also continued to push
the notion that prosecutors have had their 2.5 years to investigate the case,
while Trump's only just beginning to prepare his defense.
An April 2026 trial date would give Trump's team an equal amount of time to
prepare.
Funny, though, cuz Trump keeps using as an argument why this is a sham, that
they took so long to bring these charges when they've had 2.5 years to do it.
And they could have done it immediately.
How hard to pay fiasco trying to have it both ways again very out of character.
I'm kidding. He's a traitorous monster.
Also, his delay argument is ridiculous, by the way, because all the evidence has
been available to him ever since the second impeachment trial.
And the Jan 6 committee hearings, and
they have definitely been working on his defense the whole time.
And he certainly has the money to defend himself, too,
because they've raised over $100 million for the Save America Pack,
of which, of course, is designed just to save Trump's ass.
21 million in just the first half of this year has gone to Trump's legal bills.
Even Republican sycophant Ben miniature spock baby Shapiro just said that
Trump Ben Shapiro himself just said that Trump is, and I quote,
laundering money from his campaign into his legal fund.
Laundering money, I guess donate to keep a trader out of jail so
he can become president again and end America is a catchy slogan.
So the date of this trial is obviously crucial as to when it will happen.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has indicated this.
Chutkan has given no hints about the timetable she's considering, but
she has warned that she would speed up the timeline.
If Trump continues to make inflammatory remarks about witnesses and
parties to the case.
That could influence the jury pool, which, of course, he is doing.
She is also unlikely to be swayed by Trump's claims of political malfeasance
by prosecutors.
During her first hearing in the case, she repeatedly emphasized she won't
be factoring in Trump's political candidacy or
the politics of the matter at all in her trial decisions.
That's her word.
Here's to hoping.
Cenk.
>> Speaker 2: So they say they need two and a half years to prepare the case,
and otherwise they won't be ready.
On the other hand, Donald Trump said he had irrefutable evidence that
will show that he definitely is innocent, and
he could present that in a press conference on Monday.
Oops, so which one is it?
Do you already have the evidence and you're ready to go on Monday, or
you need two and a half years to prepare it?
See, that's part of the reason why his lawyers begged him to call off the press
conference, and he finally did today, because they're like, hey, Knucklehead.
We're trying to delay the trial because you're definitely gonna lose.
We got to get it past 2025.
So in case you win the presidency, you can just pardon yourself and then you go and
say, I already have all the evidence.
I'm ready to go on Monday, and it's irrefutable evidence.
Well, then, great.
Let's start the trial on Monday.
And guys, Maga guys, I'm asking you, which one is it?
Does he have the irrefutable evidence,
the one that you've been talking about the whole time?
The mules, the Krakens, everything else.
Does he have it on Monday?
In which case, let's go.
Let's exonerate him already.
Win the trial, get in there, win before they get to the primaries,
clean this whole thing up.
Then the other Republicans won't have a leg to stand on cuz their whole thing is,
Trump's gonna is admired in these cases.
You can resolve them, right?
What, are you gonna wait a couple of years?
You already have all the evidence, right?
All right.
You don't believe he has the evidence either.
He had 60 court cases to prove that the election was stolen.
He presented zero evidence, none.
So what was he gonna do on Monday?
He was gonna go, bunch of dumps and crack into mules.
I got you.
Mike Lindell agrees.
And here's a pillow.
He was gonna do that same dumbass stuff, and
he was gonna get himself in more trouble.
And his lawyers tackled him, and then they went into court, and they're like, yeah,
no, never mind.
What our client just said publicly to everyone in the country about how we were
ready and we had all the evidence, now we need two and a half years.
Gee, I wonder if they're gonna win on that nonsense argument.
And one more thing, guys.
Why do they say this absurd length of time that no one's ever
seen anything like this.
CNN has a legal analyst that tries so hard to lean in the conservative direction.
Everything he said, well, could be, could be, maybe, right?
And on this one, he's like, just like Ben said in the meeting,
he thought it was a typo.
He's like, no, you can't want the trial to start in 26.
And he's like, my God, it's not a typo [LAUGH].
They're really making this absurd case cuz in Trump's mind, I guarantee you,
he thinks.
Well, they want the trial to start right away, and we want it to start in two and
a half years.
So the judge will have to call it in the middle and start about.
A year and a quarter from now.
Hey, that's when I'd be president and can pardon myself.
We're gonna witness cuz the judge has to do it in the middle.
No, dumbass, the judge does not have to pick the date between your request and
the prosecutor's request.
>> Speaker 1: This is all so transparent cuz he's not running for president.
He's running from the law.
He's running for president to do it.
>> Speaker 4: Exactly.
And the most ironic thing about that is that he never really wanted to be
president in the first place.
And now the only real reason he's running, as you just pointed out, is so
that he can stay out of prison.
And as Cenk pointed out, yes, it wasn't a typo.
Not only does he want to move this trial to 2026,
he wants an entire state to change its laws so that he can stay out of prison.
There's absolutely no shame in the way that he moves.
And oftentimes I pointed to this out earlier, when you say big numbers,
the human brain doesn't necessarily comprehend exactly what it is.
But I want you all to count from 1 to 60 and see how long that takes.
That is how many court cases that this dude lost.
But on Monday, he was gonna have some type of evidence that was
just gonna sweep all that under the rug.
He's been waiting all this time building up all this suspension so
that people could be surprised or whatever.
But because his lawyers were like, no, you might get yourself a more I mean,
think about how stupid that is.
Why would your lawyers not want you to present evidence that
could free you from this?
Why would they not want you to showcase that?
And then of course, he went on to Truth Social and
then typed up a bunch of stuff basically saying, like.
Well, I was gonna bring the evidence on Monday, but
my lawyers told me that that's not a good idea.
So apparently now it's no longer necessary.
A man who's almost 80 years old who cannot stay off of social media typing
the way that he does.
But, I mean,
everything about this is just him protecting himself from being in prison.
And the Republican base is like, yeah.
>> Speaker 1: And it's all about twisting reality further and
further and further too.
Like even in the clip I saw of Ben Shapiro calling him a money launderer
essentially for taking campaign Pac money into his own legal defense bills.
Because Trump named his own social media platform designed specifically so
he can lie further to the American public truth social.
And because he named the tweets truths even when being criticized,
Shapiro goes, and Trump posted a truth saying blah, blah, blah.
And it just sounds like he's saying, it's true.
It's true what he says.
It's true what he says, cuz the man just spins reality and people eat it up.
You can say he posted something.
You don't have to say there was a truth he put out.
And that's the way they're phrasing it.
It's just the whole system is so broken now and so bends to the whims of
this insane orange monster that if he does not get a severe prison sentence.
We don't anymore have the rule of law or common sense in our country.
And I don't know where we go moving forward.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah. So last couple of things here,
fair show in America.
It really bothers me that Democratic prosecutors waited two and
a half years to try Trump.
They should have done this from the get go so
that it had nothing to do with the election.
So now it's like nip and tuck.
Are they gonna make it before the primaries?
Are they gonna make it before the general election?
What the hell did you wait two and a half years for?
And then the right wing is right to complain.
Well, it looks political.
It looks like you were gonna have the trial right in the middle of the election.
The fact that they waited that long was unconscionable.
So what's fair is fair, and we report that for you guys.
But one last thing.
Jackson mentioned that post that Trump put up.
Know the country deserves a highly intelligent president, and
that's why I'm delaying this press conference, and I'm not gonna do it.
Well, then how do you explain that you were the one who wanted to do the press
conference in the first place, dumbass.
So it was an incredibly dumb idea, and now you're highly intelligent for
getting rid of it.
Bad news for you, Donald, it wasn't anybody else's idea.
It was your dumb idea.
But no, nothing ever moves Republican voters, they're like, it was genius to do
the press conference yesterday, and it's genius to cancel it today.
Okay, if it makes you feel better.