• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    I listened to the podcast opening arguments (759) and the guest said they picked charges that can be proven without Trump trying to spin them.

    Also they are federal charges and it’s a federal case, even if the court is physically in Florida.

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      I didn’t mean to imply that they’d be state charges. Federal charges have to have a venue, and venue is generally chosen based on where the crime took place. These would be in a different venue because the crime arguably took place in New Jersey rather than Florida.

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        1 year ago

        Wasn’t the wilful retention in Florida? And if they’re interconnected, maybe they just bundled it together.

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          It was. But dissemination wasn’t one of the charges in the Florida indictment, which suggests that they’re either not going to charge him with dissemination, or they’re holding off on those charges for now.