Trump Wants Riot Mentions Stricken From Jan 6 Case

The Messenger reports:

In a pair of court filings over the past week, Donald Trump and a prominent 2020 election attorney expressed a common fear: Mentioning the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in their court cases would so inflame passions that it would rob them of the ability to be judged impartially by a jury of their peers.

Just before midnight Monday, Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge to strike 10 paragraphs dealing with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol from his 45-page D.C. election-subversion indictment. Those paragraphs, they argued, are “not relevant and are prejudicial and inflammatory.”

“I am inclined to pardon many of them,” Trump said at a town hall hosted by CNN in May. “I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

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