Practices. joining us as my old friend suzanne craig investigative reporter, for the new york times, she was one of the lead reporters on the times police surprise investigation, into donald trump s finances. suzanne, good to see this evening, thank you for being with us. it to seal. clearly, there was some calculated on the part of donald trump today that plead the fifth. why would it make sense for him to do that in this particular trial? with most devices businesses, it s not a criminal trial. we ll definitely was a lot of thought went into it from trump and his legal teams, and i think the reason why is that you got this silly puzzle case, if that goes to trial, it can be used against him in that form. and there s a lot of people have talked about that today as people have been mulling over this case, but you have to look that he s got this criminal case going on in new york. they are looking at him individually, and right now that doesn t seem to be like it s percolating tha
i think every republican believes that the fbi when it comes to trump and other organizations have lost their mind. governor ron desantis has now tweeted out that the raid on mar-a-lago was seen as another escalation of the weaponization on political opponents and regimes while people like hunter biden get treated with kid gloves. the regimes pedal of political opponents. the republicans rush to defend trump s decrying trumps treatment and ignoring any potential criminality while simultaneously vowing to go after the biden family if they win the house. and those calls for explanations and revenge are echoed by russian media. as for what we know about the fbi raid itself, jay bratt chief of the counter intelligence at the justice department visited mar-a-lago with a group of federal investigators. we spoke about this yesterday. according to the reporting from the new york times that was later matched by other news outlets, quote, after mr. bratt
Deposition could land him potentially, land him in that as well. so there is a lot of property going into it today if he did decide not to take the fifth. it just sort of thought of it like it s a basketball, thrown and you don t know quite where it was going to land. this is unusual for donald trump because there are always lawyers who say, hey maybe say less, and you ll be okay. we have no idea where this case is going to go as you said, it could end up with a trial, or settlement. he paid a 25 million dollar settlement in the trump university case. what do you make of what the likely outcome is and what influence it has on anything else that we have been discussing? is this a stand-alone case? and whether heading settlement or go to trial, and a dozen belief at the time it was a contest against, and the bears other investigations into the trump orbit? it doesn t, the country is very polarized on january six rightly, but they re sort of two things going on. there is a lot of the
Constitution. translation, donald trump the former president of the united states, twice impeached, pled the fifth. trump was in the attorney generals office more than six hours today according to the former presidents attorney, during that time, donald trump only answered one question. and that was his name. he pled the fifth. on every other question he was asked. now the former president isn t the first trump to take this approach with the new york attorney general. back in 2020, trump s adult son, eric, pled the fifth nearly 500 times when questioned by the attorney generals office as part of this case. but trump s other adult children, ivanka, and don jr., were both questioned in the same case. just last week at a court to nbc news, neither of them plead the fifth at any time in their questioning. trump s refusal to answer questions comes as the investigation into his business appears to be zeroing in. according to the associated press, the new attorney