Trump May Be the First Defendant in U.S. History to Literally Be Testing Whether He Can Delay Justice Long Enough to Deny It Himself. Will He Succeed?

By Andrew Wortman, America Rises Post #2: 8/19/23

This Thursday, Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C. to schedule an April 2026 trial date for him in the January 6^th case. “The public interest lies in justice and fair trial, not a rush to judgment,” his lawyers wrote. This date is a counter-proposal to the Justice Department’s recommendation last week that the trial should begin January 2^nd of 2024. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is expected to oppose this request, which seeks to put off Trump’s trial until nearly a year and a half after the 2024 presidential election, in which he is currently the front-runner to receive the nomination for the Republican Party. Judge Tanya Chutkan will ultimately set at least a tentative date for the trial to begin during a court hearing on Monday, August 28^th.

Trump’s counsel cites all sorts of ‘reasons’ for why the trial should be postponed for so much longer than Smith’s team initially requested, all of them equally without merit for the length of delay they are seeking. These include:

—The “massive” amount of information they have to review (prosecutors have already produced 11.5 million pages). They claim that as it stands, they would have to review approximately 100,000 pages per day in order to meet the DOJ’s proposed date for jury selection. His attorneys wrote, “If we were to print and stack 11.5 million pages of documents, with no gap between pages, at 200 pages per inch, the result would be a tower of paper stretching nearly 5,000 feet into the sky. That is taller than the Washington Monument, stacked on top of itself eight times, with nearly a million pages to spare.” (Wow, powerful visual. Yawn).