Yet, centred on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. All of this comes as the former president runs in the hope of becoming the next president , courting the Republican Party nomination while facing mounting legal concerns. So, lets take a look at the latest charges filed against him yesterday. This time, he was accused of four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. During a brief arraignment in the Nations Capital yesterday, mr trumps lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. He later slammed the Usjustice Department while speaking to the press. When you look at what has happened, this is a persecution of a political opponent. Happened, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very, very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lo
This is a very sad day for america. And it was also very sad driving through washington, dc and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that i left. Its a very sad thing to see it. When you look at whats happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person thats leading by very, very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot. So, if you cant beat him, you persecute him or you prosecute him. We cant let this happen in america. Thank you very much. Earlier, my colleague Sumi Somaskanda spoke to former congresswoman stephanie murphy. She served as a democratic representative for the State Of Florida and also worked on the House Select Committee to investigate the january 6th attack. Thank you so much forjoining us. Firstly, you served on the january Six Committee in the house of representatives. At
That in court . That is what we will see but the evidence see but the evidence certainly appears overwhelming for what we saw in the january Six Committee and from what has been alleged in the indictment. There are tonnes of witnesses and they are all almost overwhelmingly republican, members of the trump administration, republican secretaries of state like Brad Reference Berger who of course donald trump famously told, just find me 11,780 votes. These are republicans, im sorry to even have to put it in those terms but this is what we have been reduced to, is not enough to see the Secretary Of State of georgia reported it. He is on tape saying, to this Secretary Of State who gave him money, even thought it was for close and say that there was no way he would violate his oath like that. So at some point we will be able to call ourselves out of the vicious partisanship that donald trump is injected into our country but in the meantime it is overwhelming republicans who are pointing the f
accusing them of luring people to invest in sham business opportunities. in march, new york s criminal case against trump forfalsifying business records as a part of hush money payments to stormy daniels will begin. and finally, two months later, trump s federal classified documents trial is set to start, less than 200 days before the election. in the court room earlier, former president trump was told not to communicate about the facts of the case by thejudge. she warned him that failure to comply could result in an arrest warrant, revoked release conditions and contempt of court charges. earlier my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke to democratic congressmanjamie raskin about the pending trial. your thoughts on what you witnessed. it isa it is a tremendous vindication of the rule of law in american
right, and looked, he is not under an allegation to put all of his cards on the table. he told i thought a compelling story in the indictment, but those are just allegations, and prosecutors don t convict people based on allegations, they convinced them on evidence, and we have yet to see all of the evidence, maybe not even the majority of evidence. i will say, i thought the cardston, congers and raskin made an interesting point, and that this is an unusual case, and that this is an unusual case, and that this is an unusual case, and that the book of the evidence the special counsel is going to using against the former president trump comes from trump s own inner circle, his own advisers, political advisers, lawyers, from people variable gary close to him which makes this in unusual case congressman raskin. i think it will post some complications from prosecutor s perspective to introduce some of these things into evidence but it does make this things different from a normal prosecu