in very different ways. some people will be extremely angry. some people are going to be delighted. bu delightet we now have to dealt. with the merits of thisd indictmentth and the serious constitutional questions that are raised when you criminalize challenges to elections. what s missing in this indictment is any limiting principle of how we distinguish between challenges. you knownges., had people like jamie raskin try to oppose the certificatiortificatn, donat trump in 2016. there were violent riots after election. nobody is suggesting that was a crime and it shouldn t. you would. marc elias, hillary clinton s general counse elias, y clintolr tried to overturn an election in new york alleging that the machines had somehow flipped the resultg no. one said that was a crime because it wasn t a crime. soha question is, where is that? limiting principle here? and i don t se e it. and i think that we re goinge it to see in the coming weeks
me. but fani willis obviously jonathan did not need to don what was done yesterday to president trump, but that was an importantt markr the mar the left and it was kind of a preliminary part of the scalp on the wall for her. doe you see this as having been legally in any way necessary or a mistake on their part. se well, of course, this was n ignoble moment that was not in new york. i m not familiar with the procedures and the fulylt d accounting jail, but it seem to me rather gratuitous to get higratm a mug shot from someonet who is probably the most recognizable figure in thepeople united states. but the level o f that people got from this moment, as you noted in your monologue is really, really pretty depressing. we ve gotten to this point in the country where so divided ,look at that picture and they will feel passionately but
by the far left, a politically ambitious local prosecutornd a and a supporter of kamala harris, who believes that prosecututing tre and trump putn a fast track to the governor s mansio on for his hounding of trump. alvirom robert mueller to jack smith to alvin bragg. and now willis has never been justice. it s about political revenge and a warnin g. f capt in a way, trump s seething and the mug shot kind of man captures what many americans are feeling these days as well.e they, because th, too, are seething, because whether it s the economy, crime or natural disasters, the government seemske to either make things worse or not care at all, like in maui today,te i haven t had any money in i haven t had anybody call me back. i didn t hav. i e anything.i lo i have no ideast.use. i lost house, i lost my car, i lost my animals i mean, come on, man, we re not getting
, laura. this was like a parade going by. i mean., wh look, trump got 12% ofic the black vote last time, which was a 4% improvement. there are polls showing he could get to 20% of the black vote. if that happens, it s all over. it s totally over now. i saw the merch blitz today, right? right. it s alreadyalready the t-shirs on the cops. even don jelr his own version.,s so what of that?ht well but but as you might expect, laura, the media reaction was resoundingly j negative. i give you john bolton. he could have smiled. he could have looked benign. a and steady, looks like a . and i think it s intended to ben a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and judges. oh, come on. how does an expression, laura, a mug shot intimidate prosecutors? they prosecute mugsd them.
and the prosecutors are justmeae willfully blind to the implications of what this case could. there are some serious charges here connected, individuals with regard to specific crimes, but they re usin g broad sweeping racketeering claim citiringweepin in trump. and they re citing virtually every statement, tweet, meetinei call that they have. they re even bringing up that georgia calla again, which wast misrepresented originally when people said that trump ordered the the the georgia officials to find, you know, 11,870 more votes. in reality, that wasli like a settlement call. those were fairly antagonistic partie fics. r they were trying to see if they could resolve their differencetrump wang ts. and trump was saying that what he wanted to where wa votes that number of votes, which he didn t think was that significant, iher investf they g investigation. i disagreed with that. buoing t at is that now going te