In the wake of former President Donald Trump's indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, his attorney John Lauro is adopting a novel legal defense: He contends that the entire case is a deliberate attempt to suppress Trump's political speech.
"Our focus is on the fact that this is an attack on free speech, and political advocacy, and there's nothing that's more protected under the First Amendment than political speech," Lauro told CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview on Tuesday. "So, at the end, our defense is going to be focusing on the fact that what we have now is an administration that has criminalized the free speech, and advocacy of a prior administration, during the time that there is a political election going on."
