the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
you can t indict a sitting president, donald trump is a sitting president. therefore no indictment. we don t know what happene when trump left office, respec to the southern district of ne york but they may have covered thei villainy to resuscitate an revive the charges later on. and as for the idea, and i certainly agree with carole 10 percent. compared to seditiou conspiracy, and trying t overturn an election and launc a coup, falsification of business records, and campaign violations, and perhaps ta violations and the like, the are not gonna come close but our system is such which you have different investigators. one in georgia, one in new york, and one for the federa government, jack smith pursuing their independent investigations not coordinating with each other. and it s not surprising to m in the sense that the oldest case, the one from 2016, goe first.