Donald Trump may be going all-out to move his life back to Washington, D.C., and to live again in the White House. But he’s not so keen on facing the city’s residents in a criminal trial.

Even before his indictment here, Trump’s legal team predicted that he wouldn’t stand a chance before a jury inside the nation’s capital due to its deep-blue Democratic voting history.

Those concerns took on a much more public form when Trump and his lawyers spent the eve of his Thursday arraignment angling in television interviews and on the Truth Social platform for a friendlier jury pool in a different nearby jurisdiction.

“The latest Fake ‘case’ brought by Crooked Joe Biden & Deranged Jack Smith will hopefully be moved to an impartial Venue, such as the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia,” Trump wrote shortly before midnight on Wednesday. “IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump, & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness.”