CNN reports:
The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom.
Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort to demand special treatment, try his case in the courtroom of public opinion, and turn his trial into a media event,” prosecutors wrote in a new court filing on Monday.
They also told the court that broadcasting the trial could create a spectacle that may invite witness intimidation.
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NEW: And here it is: Jack Smith’s response to trump’s request to televise the trial. Smith’s argument isn’t about the fact Donald wants to be the “victim”, but instead sticks with the argument that Donald wants to make this trial a circus. 1/ pic.twitter.com/vjAGahVMdJ
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 13, 2023
My FAVORITE part is where DoJ says his request for sunlight and to allow the American people to see the trial is bullshit. If he really wanted that, he wouldn’t be doing everything in his power to DELAY the trial, or to make sure it doesn’t happen at all. Hahaha! 2/ pic.twitter.com/gr02fdVYVv
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 13, 2023