The show trial will be streamed live.
by Daniel Greenfield 18 Comments
Nothing makes a trial into a spectacle like television. Everyone remembers the train wreck that was the O.J. trial. Much as television changed presidential debates and elections, it changes trials when all the participants start seeing themselves as actors performing for the camera.
On the other hand, no one expects a case like this to be anything but a circus anyway.
Andno one seriously expects fair, honest or not completely false media coverage of the case, and live streaming it at least enables everyone to see for themselves what’s going on.
But I don’t think fairness was the intention here.
Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Georgia indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, ruled Thursday that all of the court proceedings would be made public via livestream on the court’s YouTube channel.
According to McAfee during the hearing, the best way to make the proceedings available to media, due to the number of requests, would be to stream the court case live for public viewing.
“In line with the spirit of transparency here,” McAfee said. “We have followed Judge McBurney’s model, and we have been livestreaming all of our major proceedings on a Fulton County-provided YouTube channel. And our plan was to do that with this case as well. So there’s going to be a YouTube feed the entire time.”
Judge Robert McBurney had been on the grand jury investigation.
The obvious agenda behind this entire farce was to make sure that it will overshadow the election. And while the public may be saturated with Trump media coverage, add in a livestreamed trial and the public may be more likely to pay attention.
These are political trials not only because of the partisan tilt and opposition, but because they’re intended to have a partisan outcome on the election.
Taxpayers in Georgia and other localities are spending millions funding a partisan 2024 campaign being waged through prosecutors and the court system. Now the show trial will be streamed live.
This is what election interference actually looks like.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Gordon saysCan’t wait for these marxists to start crying when it backfires and Trump’s poll numbers go through the roof.
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- Greg says
Yes, let’s see what happens when the “woke” Democ-rats throw Brer Rabbit into the briar patch. To quote the Roadrunner: “Beep Beep.”
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- CapeBuffalo says
This , and the other trials are the last gasps of the One Worlders to get Trump out of their hair..
The calculation is that they can influence more fence sitters to lean Left , or, at least, hate Trump. and to get their Leftist base to hate Trump even more.
They believe these forces will override any advantage Trump will get from his base being aroused.5
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- Tony Petroski says
I’ll never forget the O.J. trial and the televised coverage of it. The timid and the ugly interrupted the Bold and the Beautiful day, after day, after day, after day…the trial seemed to go on for three years. Judge Ito fell in love with his TV image and did not wish to spoil it by, well…doing any judging, another reason the trial went on, and on and on and…
…and the accused, well…he was not represented by one crusading attorney, say an Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck was available, but O.J. chose not to hire him). O.J. had a “dream team” of attorneys, I think there were more than six. And they went on, and on, and on…heck, the legendary F. Lee Bailey spent an entire week grilling Lieutenant “Fuhrerman” on whether he had used the “n” word in the last ten years. The trial was a long, expensive farce, the verdict was an outrage produced by biased jurors, and the circus moved on.
And here we are again, the circus now having moved to Atlanta. President Trump: If the charge is not legit, then they must acquit.
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- Algorithmic Analyst says
“If it does not fit, you must acquit!”
Perfect catch phrase for a gullible jury.
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- Jeff Bargholz says
The usual suspects.
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- Ronald Vantine says
Normal citizens are finally realizing if this could happen to him what keep the government from coming after them.
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- Onzeur Trante says
If the Fulton County coverage is anything like televised Senate hearings, I’ll bet that Trump supporters will tune out within minutes because the antics are frustratingly predictable, The Get Trump crowd will watch and salivate while posting hundreds of told-ya-so comments on YouTube. None of it will matter in the long run because a farce is still a farce and America knows one when it sees one now.
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- Kevin says
So – there will be President Trump at the defense table and a jury of Democrats with a Democrat “Judge” presiding over the farce and Democrat media people reporting the farce.
They may as well put President Trump in a cage and cart him around so the Democrat mobs can throw tomatoes.
I’m also sure Democrats will have a mob outside the courthouse demanding “Justice” and yelling non-sense like “no one is above the law” while Democrat leaders rake in millions in bribes and continue to cheat to get elected.
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- Angel Jacob says
There is an evil plot behind this.
The crooked leftists have a plan.
They are good at setting people up and making false accusations, in fact that’s all they have been doing. Nothing constructive, ever, just demonizing and attacking whoever doesn’t agree with their agenda.Trump has evidence of the voter fraud, that’s the key for him to win. He will present the evidence. But the fraud team is already aware of it, and they are fully prepared and coordinated their lies, fake witnesses and fake evidence to counter Trump’s real evidence.
Basically, their goal is to add “legal validity” to their false accusations by adding countless liars and fake evidence.
Just watch and wait for it.7
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- SPURWING PLOVER says
I hope to se is blow up in Soros face that Vulture needs a good plucking and Bragg as well as the rest of t he UN/CFR globalists criminals lets see it backfire on the NYT’s and DNC
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- ICXCNIKA says
Inmate No. P01135809 will be imprisoned for many decades. He conspired to stop the peaceful transfer of power, he instigated an insurrection, and he committed treason for which he should rightly get the death penalty
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- Old Fogey says
LOL Send me some of what you’re smoking!
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- Jeff Bargholz says
You’re a f*cking lunatic.
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- Old Fogey says
This should be a big improvement on Monty Python’s Flying Circus reruns.
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- Jeff Bargholz says
OK, I don’t get that but it sounds funny. 🙂
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- Stan L says
Trump hired singer Paul Anka to perform at his hotels, and Anka wrote about Trump in his autobiography MY WAY (he liked Trump) about Trump’s need for attention: “Praise Trump or criticize Trump, just don’t ignore Trump.”
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- Una Salus says
I guess that;s very Trump savvy for them to do that.
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Television as a Spectacle in Trials:
- The article opens with a reflection on the impact of television on trials, citing the infamous O.J. trial as an example. This sets the stage for discussing how the medium transforms the dynamics of legal proceedings, turning them into spectacles.
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Judge McAfee's Decision:
- The focus shifts to Judge Scott McAfee presiding over the Georgia indictment of former President Donald J. Trump. The judge's ruling to livestream all court proceedings on the court's YouTube channel is highlighted, emphasizing the intention to make the trial transparent to the public.
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Political Nature of the Trial:
- The author contends that the trial is politically charged and suggests an agenda to overshadow the upcoming election. The livestream is seen as a way to draw public attention and potentially influence the political landscape.
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Partisan Trials and Election Interference:
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