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Trump and Meadows Urge Judge To Move Their Cases Back To 2016
“Moving our indictments to a year when we were more popular is the only fair way to proceed,” said the former president
Ex-President Donald Trump and his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, pleaded with Atlanta Judge Steve Jones on Monday to move their criminal cases back to 2016, a year when they were more popular.
“If our fates are going to be determined by a jury of our peers, the only fair jury would be one from 2016,” said Trump from his Bedminster, NJ golf club. “We were all the rage back then and a majority of Americans loved us. Now … who knows? It’s all horribly unfair.”
Trump won the presidential election in the fall of that year, going on to be twice impeached and later inciting a violent march on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 in an attempt to stay in power.
Mark Meadows also beseeched Judge Jones to move his case to a bygone era. “We were cheered in the streets in 2016, so it only makes sense to invoke those halcyon times at our trial,” he said outside an Atlanta courthouse on Monday. “Those were the days when reliable racists and trusted white nationalists were out in the open and unrestrained, and it is those 2016…
