Results of the president ial election. Coming up, well dig deeper into the indictment and the former president s defense. Can trump be charged with lying if he believes what he said was true . The answer may hinge, at least in part, at least on district judge Tanya Chutkan, a vet ran on cases involving january 6th defendants. What members of congress are claiming and will it be a jury of his peers or the electorate who render the final verdict . We begin with tomorrows arraignment in a d. C. Federal court where donald trump will be formally charged for repeatedly spreading lies as part of an elaborate criminal scheme with the ultimate goal to hang on to power by any means necessary. In fact, trump is raising four federal counts including three conspiracy, to defraud the United States, to obstruct an official proceeding and to impede the peoples right to vote. Ever since the news broke, the former president , his allies and attorneys have been working furiously to smear jack smith and t
what? it s politics. he was going to use every lever available to him to legally try to kind of win the election which is what he thought he was doing at the time. what you re seeing right now is the justice department criminalizing politics. i ve seen that line repeated several times by capitol hill republicans and others in the maga kind of orbit here arguing this is, as the former president describes it, election interference, an effort by joe biden and the justice department to, a, sideline him and, b, bury negative hunter biden news that had been coming out over the preceding several days. i don t know how successful that line of reasoning will be with the broader electorate. it s very successful in convincing republican primary voters to stay with the former president and to open their wallets to him. every time he s indicted and arraigned, he has a big fund-raising week and the campaign is working hard behind the scenes making sure this week is the same, pumping out emails, text