PROBABLY NEWS TO TRUMP’S LAWYERS — On HUGH HEWITT’s show today, DONALD TRUMP said he will testify at his trial: “Oh, yes, absolutely.” (h/t Philip Wegmann)
HAPPENING NOW — The first televised hearing of Trump’s election interference case in Georgia is underway. Fulton County Superior Court Judge SCOTT McAFEE will hear requests filed by former Trump lawyers SIDNEY POWELL and KENNETH CHESEBRO to sever their cases from the other 17 defendants.
The hearing comes a day after Chesebro’s attorney requested McAfee to drop him from the RICO indictment and a few weeks after he applied for an expedited trial. The Fulton County District Attorney’s office has previously argued that severance of the cases would be “improper.” More from NBC
TOP-ED — “I Can’t Keep Trump Off the Ballot,” by Georgia Secretary of State BRAD RAFFENSPERGER in the WSJ: “Voters should decide elections: That’s the simple lesson of Georgia in 2018 and 2020.”
THE NEVERENDING STORY — As Senate Minority Leader MITCH McCONNELL’s health generates concerned whispers throughout Capitol Hill, fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. RAND PAUL continues to cast doubt on the notion that McConnell’s “freezing” episodes were caused by dehydration, as Capitol physician BRIAN MONAHAN suggested yesterday.
“When you get…
