damage by representing trump. in other words, while he s legally presumed innocent and the burden is on the government, it is a public fact that even getting a lawyer is hard when you are this yolked to this person you work for who s your coconspirator under the indictment. the florida he did find is a former public defend we are limited experience in the federal courts according to the new york times. if you check there s a federal system for this, the google of courts. it s called pacer. and can t find her name in pacer, in that database. but the times notes she has handled local cases. nauta was out dining with trump as recently as friday. you can see him there. they were together in philadelphia. but this news tonight that nauta s finally gotten a lawyer so he can do step one, which is plea, speaks to the potential gap here between two people whose fates are intertwined. a gap in the very literal time of these arraignments it s taken three weeks but also a gap in
doj finding a law that restricts chinese citizens from buying land in the state to be unconstitutional. you think? now, again, we re talking about some baseline stuff here. my job is to report the facts to and you ll make up your own mind. but the baseline under the american constitution is that you are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of how someone looks or where they come from. you don t want to live in a country that says, well, everyone can do this except you people over here because you re from country x. the way you figure that out is not if you have a negative association with x, y, oz. that s why we have a constitution. the fact that it s 2023 and your news anchor had to tell you ron desantis had to be stopped in court from saying chinese people
immediately until sentencing. that s what would happen to any civilian in america. that s not what s going to happen to him. you would support legally detaining at did the as soon as he s convicted pending appeal. yeah, he is planes. you know in this case, most judges for a first time offender who s a public official they d say no person is above the law, can plan an insurrection, hope to win an election even while indicted to pardon everybody that was part of the crime. that s the way to frame it. framing it the way trump does how can you do this? america should stay to careful. pence is saying that. then we have christie trying to figure out what he s trying to do to get even with trump for embarrassing him.
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. let s get right to it. as special counsel jack smith pushes for this december trial for donald trump, arraigned just over a month ago with his aide and codefendant walt nauta who you see right there also facing this indictment on conspiracy, lying and withholding classified documents. that once obscure valet and body man is back in the news. everyone saw him that day at trump s arraignment. these are shots where he s around trump or in the background. he didn t plead that day or the next week or the week after that. he did not enter his plea because there s a florida law in that district that you have local council. a florida lawyer had been beset by wariness of reputational