Donald Trump and his legal team are escalating efforts to discredit and delay a trial over his alleged attempt to overturn the election . The former presidents attorney Sunday vowed to petition to relocate the trial from Washington DC . Trump demanded the judge set to hear the case recuse herself in a flurry of assaults on the process that may fail legally but will play into his campaign narrative that he is a victim of political persecution by the Biden administration designed to thwart a White House comeback . Mike Pence did not rule out providing testimony in a Trump trial if compelled which would be a staggering potential scenario for a vice president to provide evidence against his ex-running mate . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went a tiny bit further in his criticism of Trump while still arguing that Biden administration is weaponizing justice against the former president . The fastmoving developments since Trumps indictment last week are offering a preview of one of the most monumental criminal trials in American political history . They also suggest this case and two others in which Trump has pleaded not guilty to mishandling of classified documents and to charges arising out of a hush money payment to an adult film actress in a criminal case are certain to deepen a corrosive national political estrangement . Trump is already having a direct impact on pretrial preparations as both parties are already having an impact on a shadow of the trial . His threatening rhetoric is already had a direct effect on pre-trial preparations as well as a threat to the trial. It is already being made to both parties. The trial is already . The case is being made. The case. The president of the defendant. The defendant. Trumps. Trump has been accused of refusing to cooperate with prosecutors. He is accused of not cooperating with investigators. He has refused to cooperate.