Were following Breaking News on the trump fraud ruling. A new ruling finds trump and his business guilty of fraud. This is a major legal blow and its Rocking Donald Trump and his companies. A new york judge ruling donald trump defrauded banks and insurers across his Business Activities not oncer twice, but repeatedly, sometimes routinely for years. You see the a. P. Headline there. Trump, repeatedly, the word of the judge, submitted fraudulent financial documents. This is now right here tonight, this news, the largest victory yet for the new York Attorney general Leticia James and her ongoing clash with trump. You may recall she already forced him into Contempt Proceedings and forced him to testify, where he then pled the fifth. Todays ruing vindicates the thrust, the core of her case, which is that donald trump was not just good at business or clever or aggressive or any of the words that are thrown around. Many businesses, including the rough and tumble version of new york real estat
were some of the greatest attacks on democracy in u.s. history, yet it can be easy to forget that all the horror, reaction, discussion, and coverage, for all the trials of people that stormed the capitol and the convictions of seditionists there was no coup probe of indictment for years. the man who led the january 6th rally, impeached for inciting an insurrection, that man, two years after those events, the person at the center of it all was not facing a serious coup probe let alone charges. reporting shows quite the opposite. not only was he not facing that, but the fbi and doj avoiding investigating trump for optics and review of the evidence. we all know that. that was the status quo for years. so, in our special report
with them, it s a big deal whether people no who tried these things pay their cost. because no one yet has been indicted under the coup probe, the coup section of jack smith s two different investigations. there s a trend line that nicole lawless and several print journalists have been noting, what was once cast as this single-day riot, quote, unquote, it s clearly something more. the evidence showed that. and the evidence accrued over time. it was also memorably laid out by witnesses speaking to the january 6th committee. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. flynn screamed at me that i was a quitter, kept standing up, screaming at me. sidney powell was fighting, michael flynn was fighting. did you get to see the president without an appointment? i did. i didn t understand how they had gotten in. i walked in, looked at them, i said, who are you? people shouting at each other, throwing insults at each other. some comment about like a
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colleague nicolle wallace. there are several factual ways that mike pence s testimony matters more than anyone, including former president trump, who sits at the center and beneficiary of the failed coup plot. we have evidence that shows pence has firsthand information that few or no other people have let me repeat that there s a lot of talk and hyperbole, but i m saying that as a reported piece of information we have from covering all this. mike pence from the documents and from the transcripts that the january 6th provided and from a lot of other indications that we have, has access to information that few or no other people have. it s the kind of information that the doj wants because it could inform quite decisively where other people are indicted or not in this coup probe. that right there is a lot. now, when i refer to that information, i mentioned it s reportable we got this breaking news story here in the last hour. we put together a couple of