When everyone sees the evidence, they won't want the country to see them as biased idiots.

Having said that, I agree that televising the trial would turn it into a circus.

In order to manipulate the media, he’d have to testify. If there is anyone in the world who should never testify in his own defense, it’s that asshole. I’m not worried.

1) This is the most significant case of this century that will define the path of this country for generations.

2) Count 4 is him depriving the rights of voters. We can’t all be in the courtroom.

Needs to be televised.

easily solved. No camera on Trump, lawyers, jury, etc. If he isn't seen or heard, he can only cause minimal problems. If it's not televised, he can come out of the courtroom and say anything he wants i.e. lies ~ very few people would read the transcripts. Do you want what happened in the courtroom to be screened through the media?

that I said "very few" will read the transcript.

Future generations will ask whether TFG was treated fairly. With video, there is no way to dispute the fairness of the proceedings.

I think the C-SPAN model for televising Congressional proceedings would work reasonably well. One camera, taking in the proceedings at the rostrum. Yes, the lawyers for AnusMouth will play for the cameras, but the BS they spew would be pretty discernible.

Think Nuremberg......

His only chance to talk would be on the stand, and Trump doesn’t have guts enough to testify; the prosecutors would bury him.

with the video by editing and using AI.

who would be seeing what they want to see.

If there is a genuine Lost Cause, I suppose it's MAGAts.

The right-wing news channels will continue to lie regardless but it will be easy to fact check their BS.

They didn't even watch it.

Would they watch a trial of Donald John Trump?

People need to know just what he has done to our country and our democracy.

I suspect FOOL's* trial would be just as salacious.

was a possible factor.

The prosection did not prove their case. They were very inept.

It's the RIGHT thing to do.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant and all that...

The public deserves to see it all, gavel to gavel.

I didn't post the article because I agreed with it - but the author made some good points. However, I am still undecided.

but it should be filmed.

It was a shit show. The judge, Ito, had nearly no control over the courtroom.

The Defendant’s lawyers performed for the cameras and encouraged witnesses to do the same.

The trial lasted a year and demonstrated incompetence by the prosecutors and the court.

Don’t feed Trump’s ego. Do NOT televise his trials.

and be able to see them saying it. Otherwise, it's the Trump trash-talk-tv show 24/7. I guess if you aren't curious about the actual legal proceedings, it doesn't matter?

Trump said the same thing.

They are posturing. They are saying the exact opposite of what they want so they can have trial-by-media.

They don't want the actual trial televised.

They only want their sound bites to be public.

... then all we'll get are outraged, deranged, fake news rantings from Chump-humping "journalists" EVERY SINGLE DAY. America needs to see this trial (in Washington) and digest the daily events in real-time.

I watched the Watergate hearings every day, and I watched the OJ Simpson trial almost every day. I saw almost all of the House Select Committee's January 6th hearings. It's possible to show a real legal proceedings (or daily televised synopses) without invoking riots in America.

In the absence of truthful real-time reportage, I believe riots will take place. Because ... Faux Noise.