good morning, it saturday apri 1st. i am ali velshi, this week marked another inflection poin from the state of th democracy. donald, trump the rookie politician who somehow made it into the white house with zero political experience, only t be disgraced as the firs president to be impeached twic while in office. it is now the first current or former president to be criminally indicted in u.s history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud, that s classified a misdemeanors and the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge stemming from the manhatta district attorney, alvin bragg s investigation of the former presidents role in th hush money payments made to th former adult film actress, stormy daniels with whom he allegedly had a affair, donald trump denie that there wasn t a fair and any interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday, daniel sa
a former president and current presidential candidate puts ou democracy in uncharted territory. trump is already lashing out attacking the investigators, them integrating our justice system, and calling on his supporters to protest. that s all without making an of the pleas for peace w normally expect from someone seeking to lead our nation and republicans, for the mos part, have rallied around him, echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memories, no trump has littl regard for the rule of law he did not care about du process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before the had thei day in court he did not care about politica witch hunts when he campaigned on lock up, locking up his opponent hillary clinton, with chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and if it does, the paybac will be richly deserved. it s a
record keeping and so on i also acknowledge that hi attempt to overthrow a free an fair election, the fani willis case, is also more significant in the eyes of people. but let s not forget what they did to alcona. they could not get him o murder, extortion, racketeering, and so on, so they got him o tax evasion. it s still a crime and we should not be ratin which crime is more importan for the american people to giv a thumbs up on it does not make any sense t me i went to prison, in part, because of this. i m not the one who had th fair he did i m just the idiot who paid fo it wow and interestingly enough, yo compare him to al component. one of the things that has bee striking to me is, they say, well, michael cohen is a felon he s going to testify first of all, we don t know wh all is going to testify. and he said there s pape background to backup what yo were saying. and that is but donald trump knows tha
faced indictment in thre corruption cases many believe his 2020 trial an legal woes are connected to hi attempt to dismantle the judiciary because the overhaul would also allow his far-right government to overturn supreme court decisions. like trump, netanyahu is tryin to cast his indictment a political persecution by a radical left over in south korea, which i only been a democracy for 36 years, four recent president have been criminally investigated and to have bee imprisoned those prosecutions have no eroded the country s democracy the russian impose rights. on the contrary, despite being home to a political scene as angrily polarized as the unite states, south korea has manage to weather the storms over corrupt former presidents an maintain peaceful, democrati order, as power shifted from right to left and back americans would do well to pay attention, and quote in france, former presiden nicholas sarkozy was convicted twice on corruption charges. his predecessor, jack chirac
donald trump will be found i or guilty? no, i think it will be foun guilty based on all of the information that i know is i the hands of the distric attorney i think it is not a difficul case, as so many pendants want to say the thing that bothers me more than even what these punted say, is when they start to talk about which case is more important. well, yes i acknowledge that seditious conspiracy, th january 6th, it is certainly more significant than the hush money payments, fraudulent record keeping, and so on. i also acknowledge that hi attempt to overthrow a free an fair election, the - case is also more significan in the eyes of people. but, let s not forget what the did talk about when they couldn t get him o murder, extortion, racketeering, bootlegging, and so on, so the got him on tax evasion it is still a crime. and, we shouldn t be ratin