correlation, but it is what it. is you mentioned his legal defense fund that he has, jenna ellis who s a former trump attorney that is the defender of his is now saying this has become one of the bring your principles and just one man, why is it maga funding anyone s defense? i mean what do you make of the fact that there are some people whose legals bills he covers and other peoples like jenna ellis who are up that their bills are uncovered. ? ? there s never a reason for donald that you can actually isolate and say, why is he pink, what we know for don jr. or for kimberley gargoyle, but we do not know as to why not for jenna ellis, why not for rudy giuliani. donald is an idiot. let me just be very clear when it comes to paying money, he is truly an idiot. he has not learned yet that the last person, the three people you do not want to throw under the bus like that, will be a lawyer, a doctor, and your mechanic, because when we are another you re going to go down the hill and wi
did they anticipate a trump? did they do enough to think of a system that could contain a trump at the top of it? they did not do enough. some of them knew it at the time. alexander hamilton, for instance, among others, he felt that there were not enough checks against the possibility that somebody of evil and bad character would be elected president. but and hamilton and others who are worried about this turned out to be absolutely right. what checks are there against a reckless, lawless president like donald trump? how about impeachment? how did that work? twice impeached, didn t stop him in the least. there is a in my mind, extinct memo from nixon s justice department saying that a sitting president cannot be indicted it was used to keep him from being indicted. i believe that sitting presidents should be invited. he was able to stand up to congress. and as we said correctly, didn t people around biden
as trump s legal cases mount, so to the costs. according to new reporting from the washington post, trump s political groups spent more than $40 million on legal fees in the first half of 2023 alone to defend him, his advisors, and others. that total is more than any other expense that the pack has occurred during trump s 2024 presidential campaign. according to federal filings from earlier this month, it is also more than trump s campaign raised in the second quarter of 2023. people are throwing any money to trump to use in this way. amazing. these growing legal troubles are not costing the money, is costing the perhaps something even more valuable, time. in total, donald trump faces five trials between now and november. remember, that is before jack smith is expected for the indictment, before fani willis is expected at fully fulton county indictment. a leading candidate, splitting his time between the campaign trail and courtrooms. here is what his prominent republican rival and f
them, you have to give them advice that is best for them. the longer this goes on, the best advice for them is to flip on trump. there is no way around. typically you get a new indictment if you re representing somebody. their question to you is, hey, am i looking at more time? they answer here is not really, you are already facing so many charges. it is far more likely that you re adding another defendant, another mouth that you have to hope stays closed. if it flips, and again, for the two people involved, given how much the money is going to be for them, if they cut off the pipeline of legal fees, they have invested interest in taking representation against trump. a lawyer s probably going to tell them that if they are being paid for by trump. we assume the 80 employee who is told to delete the stuff and got his own lawyers, the one that has flipped and helped with the indictment so far. jill, you worked on the watergate case. a few moments ago, i mentioned the infamous rosema
around him, the convicted criminals that donald trump is provided, hired, work with? in the 2017 presidential campaign, convicted for tax fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the witness tampering. a deputy campaigns for 2016. reed, gates convicted of conspiracy and investigated. the 2016 campaign ceo steve bannon convicted for criminal intent of congress. michael cohen s national security adviser, general michael finnegan confine couldn t of his one-time foreign policy adviser. george papadopoulos confront his one-time foreign policy convicted certain sex crimes against minors. his convicted of constructing a s company cfo adam weisman convicted of grand larceny, tied, ford and the trump organization of self convicted on multiple charges of criminal tracks fraud. coming up, just to samuel alito s claims that congress wrongly has no authority to police the supreme court. we will set the record straight. first, jessica layton is here with the headlines. hello, jess.