President Trump’s legal team just filed an urgent motion to delay his classified documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election. Trump’s team argued “American democracy” is at risk because a “miscarriage of justice” will result if the Deep State’s political prosecution continues as planned.
A federal grand jury indicted President Trump last month on 37 felony charges. And there may be additional charges, meaning a separate indictment filed in Washington, D.C., very soon. And they all want to start legal proceedings in December, right before the 2024 election campaign really begins to heat up. If you don’t think the radical Left’s pushing hard to get these trials going before the election is a calculated strategy to try to prevent Trump from being re-elected, you need to guess again.
The prosecution is hardly giving President Trump’s legal team the proper time to prepare a defense, especially in such a complex case as this one, as our own ACLJ Senior Counsel Andy Economou explained:
“Today, July 11th, the trial – according to the prosecutors – they want it to start December 11th, 2023, which is hardly sufficient time to prepare a complicated case like this for trial. I’ve had trials that have gone on, that have been indicted, and haven’t been tried for two or three years because they’ve been certified as complex cases. Here you’ve got the Presidential Records Act implicated. You’ve got search warrants that were executed in Mar-a-Lago that may be subject to motions to suppress. You’ve got the question of the President of the United States who’s announced that he’s going to run again against a former President of the United States, so you’ve got an entire jury pool in the southern district of Florida that’s going to be implicated in doing this. So Judge Cannon is going to have to make some very difficult decisions in this case and decide what she’s going to do.”
For every count – every so-called classified document – you have to go to the Classified Information Procedures Act. Of the 37 counts against former President Trump, 31 are classified. That means they’ll have to refer to the Classified Information Procedures Act 31 times alone. Imagine how long that is going to take. This case would absolutely benefit from – and more to the point – clearly requires more time. Otherwise, it’s not a speedy trial; it’s just a hasty trial. We know how fair hasty trials tend to end up, and perhaps that’s exactly why the Left would like to see that. Requesting more time seems completely appropriate. Now we just have to wait to see if the motion is accepted.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of this latest filing by President Trump’s legal team asking for more time in the classified documents case. We’re also joined by Sekulow contributor and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to discuss the newest social media platform, Threads, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, and its invasive privacy policies that you probably ought to know about before you sign up.
After her shocking testimony before Congress yesterday, U.S. Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has resigned. Will we get answers about the massive security failure that almost resulted in President Donald Trump losing his life? The Sekulow team discusses the USSS director’s resignation, Vice President Kamala Harris securing enough delegates to be the 2024 presidential nominee, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Apparently, the Secret Service had already increased its efforts to protect President Donald Trump after recent intelligence surfaced of an Iranian plot to assassinate the former President. So why was security so lax in Butler, Pennsylvania? The Sekulow team discusses the massive Secret Service failure, the Republican National Convention, Trump’s pick of Senator J.D. Vance as Vice President, other RNC news, a new ACLJ FOIA against the Biden Administration, the 2024 presidential election – and much more.
President Joe Biden isn’t planning on going anywhere, as more and more within the Democrat Party call for him not to run for reelection. He wrote a letter to Democrats in the House of Representatives calling for unity in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The Sekulow team discusses Biden’s letter and the turmoil surrounding his White House campaign, the reaction to Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest move in Trump’s classified documents case, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, Judge Juan Merchan delayed the sentencing in President Donald Trump’s New York trial until September 18. Will DA Alvin Bragg be forced to reopen the trial after much of his evidence included “official acts” from when Trump was President?
The delayed sentencing date is huge for two reasons. First, much of the far Left hoped that the attention would shift from President Biden’s poor debate performance to Trump’s original sentencing date of July 11. And as we said last week, it will not be good news for President Biden if the media is still talking about replacing him after the long Independence Day weekend.
Right now, the narrative isn’t shifting for Biden. Yesterday, the primary topic at White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conference was President Biden’s fitness for office. Also, an internal Democrat election poll was leaked that sounded the alarm for Biden’s reelection in swing states, and Trump is way ahead in fundraising now following the debate.
The second reason that the delayed sentencing is significant comes from Judge Juan Merchan’s letter regarding the delayed sentencing: “The Court’s decision will be rendered off-calendar on September 6, 2024, and the matter is adjourned to September 18, 2024, at 10:00 AM for the imposition of sentence, if such is still necessary, or other proceedings.”
Did you catch the important nugget: “if such is still necessary, or other proceedings”? In other words, the Supreme Court’s decision could derail Bragg’s case altogether. Within hours of the Justices’ decision, Trump’s lawyers contested this issue, setting off the chain of events leading to the delayed sentencing – a lot of movement happened quickly.
Bragg had presented a broad case that ignored expired statutes of limitations and elevated what would have been a misdemeanor into 34 felony counts. Yet by going so broad, Bragg might have tanked his case completely by presenting evidence that would now be considered inadmissible.
Trump’s lawyers filed a brief to have the jury’s verdict vacated, and the other side will be filing a brief in response. Judge Merchan will review the briefs (which the caveat “if such is still necessary” refers to) before the sentencing date. The judge might not have a reason to sentence President Trump at all.
The Biden Administration has come out swinging against the recent videos of President Biden freezing up that are circulating online. The latest video to spark controversy was at the Hollywood fundraiser over the weekend. President Obama took Biden by the wrist and led the President offstage after he froze up and looked lost. Other recent footage includes Biden appearing confused at a D-Day ceremony, an early Juneteenth ceremony, and the G-7 summit.
At a press conference on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the videos are “cheap fakes.” But are they?
Each of these hiccups occurred at a well-publicized Biden event. They weren’t secret, behind-closed-doors meetings. Everyone witnessed what happened to Biden on the public stage.
Yet instead of simply addressing the freeze-ups as the result of President Biden being an elderly man and that such occurrences are bound to happen, the Administration insists on gaslighting Americans. It wants to spin the narrative as a conspiracy by political opponents to make Biden look weak.
Playing off the term “deep fake,” which refers to AI-generated content, Biden’s handlers are saying the videos in question are manipulated and/or edited, calling them “cheap fakes.” And now the mainstream media is following the White House’s talking points about these videos being fake.
For example, on Sekulow, we played a clip of former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace commenting on the controversy, yet MSNBC didn’t show the full footage of Biden’s freezing up at the Hollywood event. Ironically, the real “cheap fakes” are coming from the mainstream media.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell commented on the mainstream media’s attempt to cover up the truth about Biden’s mental state:
The propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, the media in America, is really in a dangerous situation. They are helping a regime – hook, line, and sinker. They always take the side of the Democrats. They push the Democratic messaging; they’ve lost their credibility. I can promise you that dictators around the world are looking at the control that the Democratic Party has over the media in America, and they’re jealous. Because with every single thing we see, we can watch a video, and the media says you’re not watching this the right way or it’s a fake. And so many in the media repeat that.
If you’ve read George Orwell’s 1984, you will be familiar with the famous line: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government controls all truth regardless of what the people have seen and heard for themselves. The Biden Administration is using the mainstream media to enact the same Orwellian tactics on the public. It is even using Orwellian Newspeak terms like “cheap fake.”
The White House will do its best to spin the truth about President Biden, but the American people can watch the videos and decide for themselves.
President Trump’s legal team just filed an urgent motion to delay his classified documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election. Trump’s team argued “American democracy” is at risk because a “miscarriage of justice” will result if the Deep State’s political prosecution continues as planned.
A federal grand jury indicted President Trump last month on 37 felony charges. And there may be additional charges, meaning a separate indictment filed in Washington, D.C., very soon. And they all want to start legal proceedings in December, right before the 2024 election campaign really begins to heat up. If you don’t think the radical Left’s pushing hard to get these trials going before the election is a calculated strategy to try to prevent Trump from being re-elected, you need to guess again.
The prosecution is hardly giving President Trump’s legal team the proper time to prepare a defense, especially in such a complex case as this one, as our own ACLJ Senior Counsel Andy Economou explained:
“Today, July 11th, the trial – according to the prosecutors – they want it to start December 11th, 2023, which is hardly sufficient time to prepare a complicated case like this for trial. I’ve had trials that have gone on, that have been indicted, and haven’t been tried for two or three years because they’ve been certified as complex cases. Here you’ve got the Presidential Records Act implicated. You’ve got search warrants that were executed in Mar-a-Lago that may be subject to motions to suppress. You’ve got the question of the President of the United States who’s announced that he’s going to run again against a former President of the United States, so you’ve got an entire jury pool in the southern district of Florida that’s going to be implicated in doing this. So Judge Cannon is going to have to make some very difficult decisions in this case and decide what she’s going to do.”
For every count – every so-called classified document – you have to go to the Classified Information Procedures Act. Of the 37 counts against former President Trump, 31 are classified. That means they’ll have to refer to the Classified Information Procedures Act 31 times alone. Imagine how long that is going to take. This case would absolutely benefit from – and more to the point – clearly requires more time. Otherwise, it’s not a speedy trial; it’s just a hasty trial. We know how fair hasty trials tend to end up, and perhaps that’s exactly why the Left would like to see that. Requesting more time seems completely appropriate. Now we just have to wait to see if the motion is accepted.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of this latest filing by President Trump’s legal team asking for more time in the classified documents case. We’re also joined by Sekulow contributor and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to discuss the newest social media platform, Threads, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, and its invasive privacy policies that you probably ought to know about before you sign up.