https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192129237/should-trump-trial-be-televised There are rules by the Judicial Conference against televising federal trials, but Adam Schiff is asking for an exception for Trump's trial given the public interest. Trump's own lawyer also asked it to be televised. Should it be?
I’m leaning towards yes. After watching the Derek Chauvin the cameras didn’t appear to be a major distraction and I think it will be crazy enough even if presented in sketch form.
Is there a precedent for any federal trial being televised? I hope that the trial will be ... but not my call
No because that's the shot in the arm that the cable news networks are praying for as it will lengthen their "managed decline" stage and will further the inevitable, and sorely needed, elimination of that format.
I'm torn on televising it. I doubt MAGA people would watch with an open mind anyway. They don't care about evidence. They're too brainwashed. They called the investigations a kangaroo court, echoing the propaganda from Trump's GOP coup party.
I think in leaning no. If it was televised, Trump's defense strategy will be 100% play to the cameras, be convicted, win the election, and pardon himself. That's probably a long shot anyway, but whether it suceeds or fails it will not be a sound judicial process. The court has a responsibility to try to provide a fair trial. Informing the electorate has to take a back seat.
go ahead and televise it so I can see Trump’s dumbass self-snitch and make the case for the prosecution without even realizing it in real time
I enjoyed the johnny depp vs amber heard trial. Da streamers is gonna have a field day milking da views
the judge will put a gag order on Trump while the DoJ gets to leak like a sieve and she'll approve any DoJ request to declare defense evidence inadmissible not that it matters. With a DC jury, they outcome is predetermined. Republicans never get acquitted in DC. Every participant in this charade is rabidly anti-Trump.
