DA Willis proposes trial date for Trump, co-defendants

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis proposed a March 4th trial date in the Georgia election case – just one day before Super Tuesday. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s “X”, is accused of slowing down traffic to websites Elon Musk dislikes, as a judge suggests Musk withheld Trump’s Twitter data to “cozy up” to the former president. Kyle Cheney, Joyce Vance, Jake Ward, Justin Wolfers, Amy McGrath and Tim Miller join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the scope of the cases against defendant Donald Trump, 91 charges from four different
0:08.9	indictments as Bonnie Willis lays out the timeline for George's case.
0:13.6	And Jack Smith now has access to information from Trump's Twitter account and the new reporting
0:19.0	on the company's slowing access to websites Elon doesn't like.
0:24.0	Then the stage for the first GOP debate is set, but does the frontrunner have other plans
0:29.2	that could overshadow the big event as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.
0:38.8	Good evening, once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:41.6	Fulton County DA, Fawni Willis, is wasting absolutely no time in moving ahead with the
0:46.6	Georgia election interference case.
0:48.8	Today, she proposed a trial date of March 4, 2024 for Donald Trump and 18 others that
0:56.7	there's one day before Super Tuesday, which of course is in the heat of the presidential
1:01.8	primary season.
1:03.1	But DA Willis is also focusing on another big court date when Trump and his co-defendants
1:08.2	will be arraigned and enter their specific pleas.
1:11.2	She wants that to happen the week of September 5th right after Labor Day.
1:15.0	Meanwhile, a judge will hear Mark Meadows' request to move his trial on the Georgia charges
1:20.3	to federal court.
1:21.7	That court date is now set for August 28th.
1:24.8	So this evening, we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel
1:29.2	Jack Smith was looking for in Donald Trump's Twitter account.
1:33.0	Earlier this year, Smith got a search warrant to access a whole range of information from
1:37.8	Trump's account, including direct messages, draft tweets, and location data.
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