Trump Wants 'Carnival Atmosphere' at Federal Election Interference Trial

Special counsel Jack Smith's office said Monday that former President Donald Trump wants a 'carnival atmosphere' at his federal election interference trial, which is set to get underway in the nation's capital in March.

Trump is facing a four-count indictment, returned in August, that charges he participated in a conspiracy 'to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the government function by which those results are collected, counted and certified.' NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News, and other media outlets are arguing for the trial to be televised. Trump's attorney previously told Smith's office that they took no position on whether the trial should be televised, but then changed course in a politically-heated filing proclaiming that Smith's office knew that the charges against Trump are 'meritless' and is seeking to 'proceed in secret, forcing the nation and the world to rely on biased, secondhand accounts coming from the Biden Administration and its media allie

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