Hi! We’re Post reporters Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein.
We cover the Justice Department and the FBI, and we write the [Trump Trials weekly newsletter](https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/the-trump-trials/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com), which is a quick, easy-to-read way to keep up with all these cases, particularly the criminal trials he is facing. Basically, we read mountains of court filings and cover hours of hearings so you don’t have to.
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Why is the DC circuit court taking so long to issue a ruling on immunity?
Do you think Donald Trump will flee the USA if convicted of a crime, rather than turn himself in?
We’ve seen, for a few cycles now, money issues affect national Republican campaigns, including Trump’s in 2020. Is there any indication of how much his legal issues are going to play into his campaign finances down the stretch?
how has your battle with finding factual information through this entire time?
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as a managing editor for a magazine, validating information would be a big job, considering the obscene amount of false information and the nature of the subject.
Realistically, are we going to get a completed Trump criminal trial before the election? And, if he is elected, would any criminal trial be held before the end of his presidency?
With the large volume of litigations, how do you keep track of them?
It’s looking increasingly likely the NY state criminal trial may be the only one to happen before the election. How long is this trial expected to take, and how likely is it the DC election case happens this year?
How much will merely appearing in court affect his ability to campaign?
What are some possibilities for trial scheduling given an almost-certain delay from the immunity appeal regarding D.C.?
It seems D.C.’s trial date could get delayed considerably – perhaps even months.
Would there be any inherent conflicts with Manhattan’s criminal trial scheduled for March 25th? Could Cannon or the uncertainty around D.C. keep the judge from moving that one forward?
How much do you foresee Judge Aileen Cannon being an ‘issue’ moving forward with the documents case?
How does an acknowledged rapist/insurrectionist/fraud/failed exPresident have such grass roots support from his acolytes?
How many stalls can Trump get away with before he has to face the music.
Two questions:
1. Do you think any of the election interference, insurrection, or ballot eligibility cases will actually be finished before the election ends? It feels like Trump and his lawyers are doing everything in their power to delay these cases until after the election.
2. Do you think any of these cases will actually convince voters not to choose Trump? Most conservatives I know either don’t care about any of these cases or believe they’re part of a conspiracy. Do you think being found guilty will actually impact Trump’s chances or do voters just not care anymore? Is Trump actually right that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue without losing a single vote?
What do you foresee happening first? SCOTUS judgement on Trump being eligible to be on the ballot (14th amendment case) , SCOTUS judgement on presidential immunity, J6 federal case actually starting, or GA case actually starting?
There are so many trials and related developments, I see lots of people commenting they can’t keep them straight. Are you experiencing this, too?
Something like 18% of Republicans in an exit poll in Iowa said that if Trump were convicted they would not support him. Nationally that number has been close to 25% of Republicans. While I doubt these numbers are true estimates (likely inflated vs. who would actually withhold support in the event of a conviction), they are large enough to suggest that at least some proportion of his supporters would stay home in the event of a conviction.
Do you have a sense of what the proportion would have to be to sew the race up for Biden? For example, if you could query an oracle and see that X% of his supporters would stay home in the face of a conviction, what’s the smallest X for which a conviction closes the book on things?
Can you assign rough probabilities to each of the 4 trials beginning before the election? Concluding before the election?
On the absolute presidential immunity, when can we expect a ruling?
Didn’t know there was a newsletter but will be signing up for it.
What’s something you’ve found in the court filings/documents that you thought would be a bigger deal but no one is really talking about it?
The New York hush money case has been sort of hidden and not being paid attention to given the bigger cases. But it seems like that’s going to be the first case that would take place. How damaging would that case be to trump in terms of prison time and polling.
How is that tub of racist jello not in jail right now?
Are there any whisperings on the Hill of putting legislation in place to prevent this clusterfuck from happening again?
Why do you constantly equivocate fascist rhetoric and use centrist language instead of respecting your readers intelligence enough to simply report the facts? How did a newspaper that brought down a presidency through honest and direct language turn into such a corporate-speak circlejerk?
Why do news agencies use padded gloves in terms of the language they use about Trump and Republicans?
For example, the other day I saw a headline (not WP but I have seen WP do the same thing) that was “‘Oath-breaking insurrectionist’ Trump is ineligible for office, Colorado voters tell the Supreme Court”. Imo, the headline should have read, “‘Oath-breaking insurrectionist’ Trump is ineligible for office, Colorado **Republican** voters tell the Supreme Court”
Here is a WP article where I felt the reporting was overly generous to Republicans. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/19ccbui/comment/kixn88t/ Not a single thing about how Ron changed Florida laws multiple times to help his campaign (and even to allow it to start in the first place without resigning as Governor). Not a single thing about how Trump tore into him yet Ron is still endorsing Trump. No word on Ron attacking Disney over LGBT rights. Silent on Ron’s MIA policy during an insurance crisis in Florida. Instead, WP refers to his campaign as “once promising” and the heaps other accolades on him without once mentioning any of the shady shit he did.
Another example, your outlet still doesn’t refer to Jan 6th as an insurrection despite it being an insurrection, judges calling it an insurrection in their rulings, Colorado Court calling it an insurrection, 890 people in attendance being found guilty of federal crimes, but most importantly, 7 proud boys have been charged with seditious conspiracy and been found guilty. To me and a lot of people on reddit this coverage constantly seems to handle republicans with kid gloves despite us all knowing they are working on dismantling the government. They literally published their work for everyone to see, project 2025.
And don’t even get me started on what is now a meme. The constant, republicans stab themselves in their own foot here is how this is bad for Biden articles.
I’ve got one, how is someone under investigation for all of these various crimes (with plenty of evidence to support convictions) still eligible to even run for office???
Why don’t WaPo and other reputable news sources use factual terms like “insurrectionist” in headlines about Trump and other House Republicans?
It feels like a form of gaslighting, honestly