Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Jim Trusty said that the former president’s legal team is focusing on dismissing the indictment after he was arrested and charged late last month by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“I think the motions to dismiss have to be a priority because they amputate this miscarriage of justice early on,” Trusty told ABC “This Week” on Sunday morning. Trusty is representing Trump in connection to the Department of Justice’s probe into his handling of government records after leaving office.
“When you get down to kind of the trial tactics lane, then maybe you start thinking about venue. And, look, the issue with venue is that Manhattan was like 87 percent pro-Joe Biden the last election. It’s a — it’s a real stronghold of liberalism, of activism, and that infects the whole process,” he remarked, adding that the Trump legal team is a “long way” from considering moving venues to a more Republican-friendly district like Staten Island….}
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