so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and friend
filing with 11 people and i was like that scans in a nation with 30 million people. i think the rest of the folks are like i don t need to go through every book in my kid s library. please make me less involved. enough e-mails. that s for another show. thank you, chris, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. today for only the second time in american history a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. now, the first time was last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. and now today mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again virtually by videoconference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary because donald trump
as much as possible, operating in the background and then disaster happens. between the potential rail strike and this accident, it just blow this whole thing open and now we are acutely aware of all the risk involved. thank you, my friend, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. do you remember this photo? the iconic image of classified documents laid out on the floor of donald trump s mar-a-lago home after the fbi search the esophagus. the reason we have all seen this photo is because donald trump essentially forced the justice department to reveal it in a court filing after trump went to court to try to slow down the investigation. that is how we all access to the photo a summer. a filing in open court. there is literally no question as to its origin. who made the photo public, and why it was being made public, which is what made this exchange the day between senator ted cruz and attorney general merrick garland, it s why it made it a little awkward.
do you remember this photo? the iconic image of classified documents laid out on the floor of donald trump s mar-a-lago home, after the fbi search it last august? the reason we have all seen this photo is because donald trump essentially forced the justice department to reveal it in a court filing after trump went to court to try to slow down the investigation. that is how we all access to the photo a summer. a filing in open court. there is literally no question as to its origin. who made the photo public, and why it was being made public, which is what made this exchange the day between senator ted cruz and attorney general merrick garland, it s why it made it a little awkward. as you know, the fbi raided donald trump s mar-a-lago home and subsequent to that raid, there have been multiple leaks about what was discovered there, including a photograph of documents discovered there. did you know about the leaks? the photograph was a filing in court in response to a motion
staying one step ahead for over a decade, if he was taking that much dope. i would submit to you. just one other lie that i would submit to you is a lie that he s trying to get you to believe to feel sympathetic for him as if the dope was the cause of the money and the cause of his issues when the reality is it wasn t. this had been going on for a long time and the finances prove differently. but what else about this? you ve seen the interviews, and we re going to play some clips of these interviews. i m not going to play them all for you again. you ve watched, but if you have any question, go back and watch them. he talks about being paranoid. watch those interviews when he s with dave owen. he doesn t look like he s withdrawing from any drugs. his responses are appropriate. he s not displaying any paranoia. he s smooth. he s focused on the events. he s focused on trying to get information about the case from law enforcement officers, which is interesting in its own right. w