Donald Trump is ramping up his campaign to halt all
proceedings in his federal election interference trial.
Late this afternoon, his lawyers filed new documents asking for
the case to be put on hold until there's a
decision about his claim that he cannot be prosecuted because
of presidential immunity. Now remember,
it was just Monday, that is.
Yesterday, special prosecutor Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to
quickly settle that issue.
Smith's unusual request is about timing.
He wants to make sure that the trial starts on
or close to March 4th,
the date that has been set by the judge overseeing
the case.
Trump is also the man the main defendant in Smith's
other big case involving classified documents,
those that were found down at Mar A Lago.
A new report from CNN says Trump contacted A longtime
employee who quit months after FBI agents searched the club
last summer but before charges were filed.
According to CNN, that employee witnessed several episodes described in
the indictment charging Trump with mishandling classified docs.
CNN adds the special counsel's investigators spoke to the employee
about Trump's call and calls from his associates.
Meanwhile, Trump ally and former lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in
court for day two of his defamation trial.
Remember, he has already been found liable,
and now he could be forced to pay millions and
millions of dollars in damages to former Georgia poll workers
Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shay Moss.
Giuliani falsely accused them of election fraud,
while the two were simply counting ballots in 2020.
Doing their jobs. That, they say,
devastated their lives today. Shane Moss took the witness stand.
My colleague Ryan Riley was in the courtroom.
It was really dramatic testimony from this election worker who
was just talking about the devastating impact that these lies
from Rudy Giuliani really had on her life.
Shea Moss talked about how this really just did take
over her life.
She talked about shutting down,
you know, her Facebook Messenger because she was getting all
of this racist garbage coming into her inbox,
shutting down her LinkedIn account as well.
Even Pinterest people went after,
even after she moved because of the threat she was
receiving,
they found her new address and sent her clippings of
her own face in them.
So just these sort of vague,
threatening messages, all sort of with this layer of racism
all around them.
And she talked about how she thinks,
you know, Rudy has compared them to bank robbers.
She really, I think, made a compelling case for the
jury here.
Last night outside the courthouse,
Giuliani falsely claimed in public that he told the truth
about these women.
Well, today the judge reprimanded him for doing so and
said his comments could support another defamation claim.