{"id":49877,"date":"2024-03-26T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49877"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:14:55","slug":"trump-trying-to-run-out-the-clock-on-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49877","title":{"rendered":"Trump trying to run out the clock on prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facing a total of 88 felony charges in four separate federal and state cases, Donald Trump is employing a simple tactic that has always served him well in the past &#8212; running out the clock.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate has deployed an army of highly paid lawyers in New York, Washington, Georgia and Florida to push back his trial dates.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is clear: delaying court action beyond the November election when, if he recaptures the presidency, he could potentially have the federal charges against him dropped &#8212; or even pardon himself.<\/p>\n<p>So far the strategy appears to be working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a chance that he could evade justice by delaying justice,&#8221; said Adam Schiff, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives who was on the committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by<br \/>\nTrump supporters refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tried and true tactic of Trump throughout his career,&#8221; Schiff told CNN. &#8220;The courts should not play into that stratagem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a total of 88 felony charges in four separate federal and state cases, Donald Trump is employing a simple tactic that has always served him well in the past &#8212; running out the clock. The 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate has deployed an army of highly paid lawyers in New York, Washington, Georgia and Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[917],"class_list":["post-49877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-trying-to-run-out-the-clock-on-prosecutors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}