outside its borders. with distance comes clarity. so with that in mind, here is salvadoran president niyi bucheli on twitter today, quote, think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he s being indicted, bucheli wrote . but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate, the united states s ability to use democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city, in the heart of central america, it is very obvious what just happened at that manhattan courthouse. it s obvious to many democrats to trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it s really that simple. if donald trump had retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned today? of course not. top democrats know that some effectively admitted the liberal blog politico this morning ran a piece describing what it called president joe biden s most seni
is the only issue at hand proceedings or some of the most secretive proceedings processes a non political process. this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda that is not the rule of law. its spirits. he s ready to go in and do what he needs to do. this is not a situation that he has any control over. i think right now he s beyond petrified to liberal prosecutor that s doing political revenge against a former president. that s not a precedent that you want to have more dangerous precedent to set here would be to do nothing. today it all happens. today is the day the day good morning, everyone seven am here on the east coast. we re glad you re with us. the sun is up. behind caitlin outside of 100 center, street street, caitlin, the manhattan criminal court house, which is where the world s attention will be on the former president today. yeah i should note that there are a lot of security here. there s a lot of new york police department officers, a lot of barricades. there i
we have mark pomerance admitting that they couldn t bring charges. neither could the fec. who regulates this? alvin braxton today and said he was bringing a state federal crime that doesn t exist. it doesn t exist. it s a federal crime, not a state crime. it s crazy to hear it on nbc news today, msnbc, this hush money, really, how many women alleging sexual harassment and assault as nbc news paid off this year? i mean, spare me, please. i used to work there. it s great to see you tonight. thank you so much. thank you. so authorities all but shut down new york city for trump s arraignment today. hundreds of police officers showed up. they closed fdr drive millions of dollars on security because of all the threats and protests . this was the scene outside the courthouse today. with the go .
we saw during trump s term as president and something that is continuing now. yeah not surprising for trump himself surprising generally, though, of course. typically you would not see someone attacking the judge that they re going to be appearing before. i ve been speaking to a lot of people in trump s trump s orbit. they are not exactly thrilled with the fact that he s been going after the judge or saying like you did last night that alvin braxton indict himself here. of course. you know all this is coming as his legal team is dealing with all of that. he does have a new attorney on his team one that he added just yesterday. i was told todd blanche, he s a prominent white collar defense attorney. he joined after a member of trump s own legal team has raised questions about one of the attorneys. that is in this case. joe jacket, pena. this is what trump attorney tim parla tory who is not representing trump in the manhattan case, but is in the january 6th and the documents investigatio