Lawyers for #Trump asked a judge on Tues night to pause a group of #civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for the #violence at the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021, until after his #federal#criminal trial connected to the same events was over.
The request…to pause the civil cases was the latest example of Trump trying to pit his multiple #legal matters against one another in an effort to #delay them.
In the past several wks, #Trump & his lawyers have managed to gum up each of the 4 #criminal cases he is facing, sometimes by persuading judges that the timing of the various proceedings were in conflict w/one another.
In their request for a pause in the #civil cases, Trump’s lawyers told Judge Amit P. Mehta, who is overseeing the proceedings, that it would be unfair to force TFG to defend himself against the suits at this point.
They said that in so doing, #Trump might reveal his strategy for defending himself against related #criminal charges brought against him by the #SpecialCounsel#JackSmith.
“Given the substantial overlap in factual & #legal allegations between these cases & the DC criminal case,” the lawyers wrote, there is “a substantial risk that proceeding in this matter now will expose the defense’s theory to the prosecution in advance of trial.”
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