are going around the country and people understand. you have jen ellis and others as rachael reported saying that we are not being funded, which creates the notion of the fissure, and then you have the legal president which i mentioned, which is a large scale rico cases in this county and others usually involve some convictions. so, what we all understand why it is so significant to watch here, the speaker defended donald trump get his booking. the fact that people understand and know that there is, shall we say, a consequence and more on the way i think that it definitely chills or, as a former prosecutor giuliani would say with the rico cases, a deter crime. we do have confirmation, as you see on your screen, that the former president did have a mugshot taken inside the jail. you see the motorcade starting to move here. trump has been taken into custody and then released in fulton county georgia. this is his federal motorcade, the secret service protection, and an inordinate number
this is a facility that is decrepit and the fulton county georgia sheriff has asked for two billion dollars, effectively, to build an entirely new facility because this place is such a disgrace and is so dangerous. donald trump is likely to have a very quick pass through in his experience there, but that is the facility that he is in. they did not put him somewhere tidy for this part of the process, and that itself says a lot about what it means to be subject to the criminal suspect and be seen as it treated like a citizen, rather than a vip. to amplify the point you are making, it is actually kind of remarkable to watch a former president have to submit to state authority. it is a federalist kind of triumph that, no matter how high you are, no matter what run of power you achieve, and he achieves the highest one in american politics, in the end you are just a citizen and you have to go through the filthy
believe he was in, it was under that covered a portion of the entrance of the jail, so you can t necessarily see it directly, but confirmed that he is out of the vehicle and inside the jail right now, which means that, in all likelihood, the booking process is underway as we speak. our, to a point that you are making about seeing this visual, of seeing a federal, a lifelong federal protectee of the secret service brought to state authorities for his bodily surrender, he is now in state custody as a criminal defendant in the state of georgia. one of the other things that we may ultimately get to here is the question of whether or not his secret service protection itself means that, even if he isn t convicted and sentenced to jail, they won t put him in a jail. they are going to say, the secret service believes that you cannot be adequately protected in a state prison or federal prison, so you re going to serve your term under house arrest for some sort of modified it s possible.
well, findling has said that he has not broke any laws. it s the only time i ve heard anybody say that in the context of this case. the defenses that he did not do it, it s that he should not be charged. that what he did should not be charged as a crime, despite what he admits to. let me just reiterate, let s underscore this moment. this is the county jail in fulton county georgia, which is a jail that is under federal civil rights investigation, it is a notorious jail, there have been horrific deaths in custody there, including a recent very high-profile one of a prisoner, i don t like the term inmate for complicated reason, but a prisoner who is found in the psych ward essentially, in the fulton county jail dead and with a terrible insect infestation.
be. here our democracy didn t have to be here. we didn t have to be in a position where the former president of the united states is not going to be booked like a common criminal, and having mugshots. that is his. fault he didn t. he wanted the spectacle of being president for life. he wanted to not leave office. he wanted to be. this he decided to be king. and now, he is the king of scandal and distribute. i just want to say that coming out of the plane just now, the lady with the frosty here, susie wildes who is a trump campaign manager and also a witness on the bedminster tape, she is apparently writing air trump with the former president and i ve gotta say that as i think about this moment we were here last night at the same desk talking about another indicator in terms of our democracy and that was the republican debate. and i can t get the sort of part, one part two nature of the last 24 hours out of my head. which is last night on state,