Inside Tale: For Trump Carroll Trial to Resume amid COVID After NH Sources Buzz of Distance

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

LITERARY SDNY, Jan 24 – Primary Tuesday and then Wednesday, there was no Trump, not at the SDNY courthouse. [In preparation for Thursday, sources spoke to Kurt Wheelock, below and here.]

  But Tuesday evening after Nikki Haley spoke, vowing to fight back to South Carolina and beyond, the Trump event had surprisingly guests.

   Some focused on Alina Habba, there to the side of the podium with a wall of flags behind her. But there too was George Santos, in another room, promoting himself.  But wasn't he on pre-trial release?

Hadn't he gotten it extended, in the docket, from New York to include DC before he was thrown out of Congress? 

 Quickly some tried to smooth it over, saying he'd given notice of this trial. But that's not how it was supposed to work, at least not in SDNY. In the Handler case, for example, there was a letter seeking approval for a one day trip to Ohio. The District Judge had to approve it, then add to work out the details with Pre-Trial. Details, details.   

 In the Carroll case court was skipped on Wednesday too, resuming they now said on Thursday. 

Late Wednesday Kurt Wheelock heard from sources how they would try to do it 

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