In recent weeks, one of the people said, prosecutors privately advised the judge to delay setting a trial date because some co-defendants may soon plead out, one of the people said.
On Monday, former Trump lawyer and co-defendant John Eastman asked the judge to allow him to go to trial separately from the former president, and earlier than the August 2024 trial date proposed by prosecutors. Eastman also asked for the final plea deal deadline to be moved forward.
The court filing from Eastman reflected the apparent trepidation among a growing number of Trump allies charged in Fulton county about standing trial alongside Trump as a major Rico ringleader, a prospect widely seen as detrimental to anyone other than Trump.
In a statement, Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow suggested the former president was uninterested in reaching a deal. “Any comment by the Fulton county district attorney’s office offering ‘deals’ to President Trump is laughable because we wouldn’t accept anything except dismissal,” Sadow said.
And rumor would have it that only WSJ editorials are weird and often downright crazy.
That’s fine mofo, they aren’t offering up no deal anyway. Go suck it!
It’s difficult to plumb the level of cognitive dissonance in Mike Pence. He gives testimony consistent with everything else we know about Trump’s willful intent to overthrow the election, then at the end denies that Trump intended violence. Of course, if you’re a Bible thumper, Orwellian doublethink is a carefully conditioned trait.
O/T, but I wonder how many people are seriously burned out by the media’s obsessive, maniacal focus on the Middle East, to the point where nothing else in the world matters? It’s become simply a steroid-enhanced rerun of everything we’ve learned to our dismay about the region as far back as anyone can remember (the 1967 war in my case). It makes a good case for a long-term strategy of insulating the US from the region (to include above all a transition to renewable energy), rather than constantly intervening in mindless, kneejerk fashion.
And it’s not as if we don’t have our own endemic mass violence to deal with, which on an annual basis kills more Americans than have died since October 7 thus far:
Marcy Wheeler has the critical take:
"The problem is that the lies Russia and Trump told in common in 2020 — primarily a false claim that Joe Biden corruptly fired a Ukrainian prosecutor — don’t have anything to do with the specific lies that Trump told to mobilize thousands of his followers to attack the Capitol.
That both Russia and Trump want to undermine democracy is not a specific defense to the charges against him."
Evangelical Leader taunting Chump with peepee showers dig.
WOW.
Damn, just how far has them Evangelical leaders fallen. I guess gawd isn’t on their side if they have to go blue. Ha
Excellent.
“Trump “acted recklessly” as the Capitol was under siege, but Pence will “never believe” Trump meant for Jan. 6 to become violent.”
I still believe (and fervently hope) that Mr Smith is going to nail this fat fuck. We shall see….
Commies!
Mike Pence gives me a Sam the Eagle sort of feel, just impossibly pious and just as long as someone is watching. I’m pretty sure both of them are wearing weird, Golden Girls style nightgowns with their hair in curlers after 7:30 pm, reading the National Inquirer to keep up with the “news”.
Keep seeing how Pence didn’t want to hurt the feelings of his good friend tfg.
Checks notes…
“You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Mr. Trump told him, according to two people briefed on the conversation, “or you can go down in history as a pussy.”