LOS ANGELES - Calls are growing for Donald Trump’s criminal trials to be broadcast live, as the United States grapples with the prospect of seeing a former – and possibly future – president in the dock.
An indictment looms in a fourth, related to a phone call to a Georgia election official in which Trump pressured the man to “find” the 11,780 votes that would reverse his defeat to Joe Biden in the southern state. Busting this myth and exposing the depth of his malfeasance is a prime reason to show the trial to a wide audience, said constitutional law specialist Alan Dershowitz.
While some state-level proceedings have been shown on US television – OJ Simpson’s nation-stopping murder trial was a ratings blockbuster – federal trials cannot be photographed or broadcast, courtesy of rules dating to 1946.