Former President Donald Trump was never going to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., especially with a jury plucked from a pool that voted for President Joe Biden 92 to 5 percent and a federal judge who has had it out for Trump and his supporters.
That’s why Trump’s legal team is angling for the case to be moved outside the swamp that he pledged to “drain” in a second term. The indictment from earlier this month, not to be confused with the Georgia indictment out Monday night, was the third round of get-Trump charges this election cycle and was ostensibly related to Trump’s speech surrounding the Capitol riot two and a half years ago. Judge Tanya Chutkan is presiding.
“There is no way I can get a fair trial with the judge ‘assigned’ to the ridiculous freedom of speech/fair elections case. Everybody knows this, and so does she!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “We will be immediately asking for recusal of this judge on very powerful grounds, and likewise for venue change, out [of] D.C.”
An examination of Chutkan’s prior statements gives Trump and his supporters good reason to be concerned. Chutkan, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2014, has a recent track record that is incompatible with impartiality. Serving on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chutkan has presided over more than three dozen cases of those charged with crimes related to
