morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
go with trump again? i ve heard more of the disturbing scenario than i would like to have. i think that the everybody is on a wing and a prayer, thinking something is going to happen, right? i call this the glenn youngkin fantasy scenario, right? the great hope of the men s grill enablers is, somehow or another, glenn youngkin is going to, you know, come in like the end of shakespeare with his vest, with his private equity background, he is going to solve everything. suddenly, it s going to be, you know, 1984 again. i go with god, but it s not a it s not a particularly, seems to me, plausible, tactical path.
republicans, we ve called them peter malarves republicans, how many decide they can vote for the president opposed to the former president? that may decide everything. a term you coined on the show, men s grill enablers, which has stuck with us around here. yes. jon, you and i have had this conversation on and off the air, which is, people we know very well, old line republicans, reagan, bush republicans, people who liked mitt romney and john mccain and believe that character is important, who mocked donald trump in 2015 and the early stages of 2016, he s a joke, a clown, i d never do business with him, influential men and women in their own right, hopped on board in 2016. the explanation was, oh, it can t be hillary. are you hearing when you speak to those people that we both know very well, are you seeing any cracks in their support of donald trump? do they say, well, if it comes down to him or biden, i have to
capacity, willingness to actually follow the law. right. so the law is not as clinical as we sometimes want it to be. we have to, as was written, we have to follow the spirit of it. that s the test we re facing if those who put power above all or tax rates above all, could, in fact, be fatal to this experiment that s what we re facing. yeah. the men s grill enablers of trumpism, form of fascism. hope the drinks on the 19th hole are enjoyable for him. willie, in closing, following up on what jon said, another important line from peter baker s brilliant essay in the new york times today, the indictment of mr. trump takes the country into unchartered
detest him, they loathe him, and then get on the air and say something comecompletely differt same thing with glenn youngkin i could go down the list of people you and i have spoken about. mainstream republicans who say he s destroying the republic, but they ll support him if he is the nominee. yeah. i d love to know where that comes from. it is elemental, joe, right these are men s grill enablers, right? these are 19th hole enablers of a quest for power above all. this is elemental, right it s about genesis it s about knowledge there s power. there s something that you are told you can t have, and, yet, you want it, and so you take it.