president. he happens to be the leading candidate to get the gop nomination and be atop the primaries when it s all said and done, making him joe biden s primary and main opponent. is that the man that s going to be charging the president, the former president of the united states, is that the justice department that he controls? yes, the justice department specifically accusing trump of violating the espionage act. congress passed the espionage act a few years before world war i. the law was meant to target spies who might turn against the united states during wartime. joe biden s justice department is trying to argue that trump is a spy, which is really absurd. now, the president said as much in a rally over the weekend. he addressed the indictment against him in public for the first time. the baseless indictment of me by the biden administration s weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country. i t
of the first federal arraignment of a former u.s. president in the history of this nation. security is tight as donald trump is about to respond to the most serious criminal charges, twice impeached and twice indicted former commander in chief has faced. trump is at his golf club outside miami, expected to heed to the courthouse soon. this is cnn s special coverage of the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. i m anderson cooper. i m jake tapper. the former president will be placed under arrest. he will likely be fingerprinted electronically and then he is expected to plead not guilty to the unprecedented 37-count indictment. trump is accused of willfully mishandling highly classified documents brought to his mar-a-lago resort after he left office and accused of allegedly conspiring to try to hide these documents, stashing boxes in unsecured locations, including a ballroom and a bathroom. trum aide walt nauta is also charged in the indictment and expected to appear alongs
on november 5th, 2024, we re going to stand the up to the corrupt political establishment, we re going to the evict a totally corrupt president named joe biden from the white house. [cheers and applause] and we re going to finish the job that we so successfully started. maria: coming up, the legal merits of this indictment with former acting attorney general matthew whitaker and harvard law professor emeritus alan kerr, wits. plus, trump indicted while the feds sit on a hunter biden investigation now going into its sixth year. former director of national intelligence if john ratcliffe on the two different applications of the law as the ccp continues soft espionage if attacks on america and the biden administration is forced to quietly admit that communist china does, indeed, have a spy base in cuba to surveil america while vehemently denying the wall street journal s report earlier this week. all of this as joe biden swears he s an honest man. i have never once, not one
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stretched for five years. and the source told the fbi about these conversations in june 2020. that s right as joe biden was wrapping up the democrat nomination. the burisma executive told the fbi s confidential source that burisma had to pay the biden administration for help getting rid of the ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating burisma for corruption. quote: 5 million for one biden, 5 million for the other biden, the burisma executive told the confidential human source. now, people who have seen the document tell us that the $5 million payments were a kind of retainer agreement that burisma had with the biden administration do deal with a number of issues. one of which was getting rid of this prosecutor. other issues burisma needed biden s help with was help with oil deals. now, the executives said they needed to pay joe biden because hunter was quote, unquote, dumb and couldn t get much done by himself. now, people who have seen this document say it looks like a pay