Lawyers for former President Donald Trump said in a legal filing Friday that his federal criminal election trial should be televised so Americans can see how he is being treated unfairly.
Trump’s filing expresses support for a media coalition request asking U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to allow the trial to be broadcast. Trump is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
“For the first time in American history, a sitting administration has charged its primary electoral opponent with a criminal offense. Aware that their charges are baseless, the prosecution has sought to proceed in secret, forcing the nation and the world to rely on biased, second-hand accounts coming from the Biden Administration and its media allies,” Trump said. presentation saying. “As a result, the citizens of our great country cannot review for themselves what the facts of this case show and how unfairly President Trump is being treated at the hands of his political opponent.”
federal court rules currently stipulate that federal trials cannot be broadcast, but Trump and the media are hoping to be granted an exception.
The presentation added that the public would benefit from seeing the case and see that it was a “farce.”
“President Trump absolutely agrees, and in fact demands, that these proceedings be fully televised so that the American public can see firsthand that this case, like others, is nothing more than a concocted unconstitutional sham that should never be allowed. happen again,” the document says.
Trump’s lawyers said confidence in the US justice system would be undermined if the process were carried out “behind closed doors”. The former president’s legal team also said prosecutors had handed them millions of pages of evidence and thousands of hours of videos with little time to review.
The filing adds that Trump could present evidence about the 2020 election during the trial that the public would have the right to see.
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Media organizations have requested to broadcast the trial saying it would be useful for future historical writing and evidence.
“It would be a great loss if future generations of Americans were forever deprived of being able to access and view the events of this trial even years after the verdict, which would greatly enhance the ability of future journalists and historians to accurately retell and analyze meaningfully. this unique chapter in American history,” Rebecca Blumenstein, editorial president of NBC News, said in a court filing.
The Justice Department does not want the trial to be broadcast.
