organization that he was to to find out if i had spoken to them. after he got to about the fifth person i realized they were on a fishing expedition and i said i m not going to answer this question. my lawyers intervened and we moved on. and what s ironic about that is he s employing the same principal right now in the white house. he is trying to fair it out, anonymous sources. and it s the man that s doing this is someone that spent the last five decades anonymous offering gossip and malignant rumors to every reporter in new york and washington about his family, about business competitors, about celebrities and politicians in order to damage them and enhance himself. he s adopted fake personas. he s used the name john miller and john baron to promote those stories. his father used to go around in work under the persona mr. dream to anonymously look at
my lawyers intervened and we moved on. and what s ironic about that is he s employing the same principal right now in the white house. he is trying to fair it out, anonymous sources. and it s the man that s doing this is someone that spent the last five decades anonymous offering gossip and malignant rumors to every reporter in new york and washington about his family, about business competitors, about celebrities and politicians in order to damage them and enhance himself. he s adopted fake personas. he s used the name john miller and john baron to promote those stories. his father used to go around in work under the persona mr. dream to anonymously look at properties. this is an old trump tool of the trade. they have been doing it forever. and he s now going after people who have used the same devices
irresponsible. i think it is good that that venue exists. it is on the press to make sure their work is done. actively and responsibly. i think with trump you have an unusual character because he is enormously thin-skinned. i think most attorneys pull their hair out when they have to advise him because he doesn t take advice. he is often times his own worst enemy. i suspect he is doing cart wheels every time trump threatens to sue. i wonder how you interpret threats he makes to journalists, institutions, foreign leaders. do you process them differently than you might other threats. he has a long history of doing it. he is a big saber rattler. more often than not trump doesn t follow through on legal threats. it is not just the media. historically he threatened to sue business competitors, and
donors attack their business competitors using his attorney general s office as their weapon. the judge accused the alabama attorney general s office of serious and wholesale prosecutor misconduct while jeff sessions was in charge. the court finds even having been given every benefit of the doubt, the misconduct of the attorney general, jeff sessions, in this case far surpasses in both extensiveness and measure the totality of any prosecutorial misconduct ever previously presented to or witness bid this court. never seen anything like that. i would not have known about that before david cole testified from the aclu. joining us is david cole, national legal director of the aclu. thank you for being with us. thanks for having me, rachel. am i right in seeing the aclu wouldn t normally as a matter of course testify at a con dpir
his office indicted the company on 222 counts. his office touted the case as being of the most magnitude that the attorney general s office has undertaken in the last 25 years. case turned out to be a dud, though. the court not only through the case out. the judge in the case raised sharp questions about senator sessions now senator sessions and how he handled that case at the time. questions about whether he took the case as a favor to one of his campaign donors, whether he was misusing his office to basically help his campaign donors attack their business competitors using his attorney general s office as their weapon. the judge accused the alabama attorney general s office of serious and wholesale prosecutor misconduct while jeff sessions was in charge. the court finds even having been given every benefit of the doubt, the misconduct of the attorney general, jeff sessions, in this case far surpasses in both extensiveness and measure the totality of any