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With less than a week left in his criminal trial, Stephen Colbert mocked Trump's efforts to delay the case.
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Trump's lawyers argued that the former president would not receive a fair trial because the jury pool has been polluted by news coverage of Trump's other recent cases. So are you saying that jurors would not have seen any news about Donald Trump's crimes? Their crimes are news!
I don't understand. Who will leave that? “Your Honor, it is absolutely appropriate that our client be judged by an impartial jury that knows nothing about the events that have occurred in America over the past nine years. May I recommend 12 confused individuals who were abandoned in the wild as infants and then raised by wolves, or, if they are not available, can we obtain some cloned infants who Aged rapidly in some kind of machine and then abandoned in the jury box? Oh? Oh, they think he's guilty too? Ok.”
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Trump's relocation request was not the only desperate stunt he pulled. He also tried to sue the judge. Yes, it's a strange court! The defendant is suing the judge! Bible oath on the bail bondsman! The gavel is beating everyone! I believe this is from one of Stormi's movies. The gavel is beating everyone! The lawsuit challenges a gag order issued by Judge Merchen to prevent Trump from verbally attacking witnesses, jurors and others, including the judge's daughter, whom Trump attacked on social media . Trump has also asked Judge Marchen to recuse himself, accusing him of bias. Yes, the judge had to recuse himself from the case because Trump had attacked the judge's family.
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Trump's attorneys' argument is mainly that the previous president has dedicated too many crimes in Manhattan to get a good trial, so Trump wants to maneuver his trial to someplace much less aware of his historical past of felony exercise. sure.
Stephen Colbert was proper. Trump is determined. The failed former president didn't actually imagine he would ever be prosecuted, and why ought to he?
Trump is a person who has gotten away with every little thing he has accomplished for all the left and has by no means been held accountable, so it could be stunning for him to face the results of his actions.
The defendant Trump will develop into extra pissed off as accountability is coming and he appears powerless to cease it.
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