embassies garrett hague, mar-a-lago in west palm beac florida. garrett, welcome to you. tell me all that you hearing about trump world about donald trump saying that he is goin to be arrested on tuesday. donald trump s allies hav been preparing for thi possibility for weeks, if no months if following this case closely and as you pointed out, they don t have any more specific information than do you or i i fact, the trump campaign spokesman indicated in his cleanup message to reporters there is nbc news reporting, that made them first aware tha this indictment, if it comes could come as soon as next wee but politically speaking talking only about the politic here, the trump team and his sort of wider constellation of allies have leaned into this moment, have leaned into thi possibility, to be able to cas the former president a standing up against what the see as a liberal, weaponized justice system you are seeing it from trump allies on twitter toda primarily, making th inv
because you have to say that all of these different prosecutors, all of thes different grandeurs and judges who have allowed charges to go forward and so forth are par of this conspiracy, and it may just tell a lot of trump voters, people who like him, people wh agree with him, people think he s being unfairly treated, they might just be tired of it they made to say look, is ther another person out there who represents the same thing th trump does but that doesn have the same baggage of all o these criminal affairs they might look at ira desantis as an example, he strikes a lot of the sam themes that trump does without obviously having to face s many courtrooms. can t tell you how much i appreciate three of you, peter charles, neil, thank you guy so much for giving us advice today on a really big story. also 1 pm today, i will be talking with a former trum insider on this breaking news. what my reaction to all of thi from those closest to th former president including melania trump.
spin a indictment to appeal to voters as being the best candidate for being presiden of the united states well look, we have to say that, what else are they going to say but there is a history here fo them that they are basing this on they have successfully galvanized trump supporters in the past with this story o prosecution, persecution, th notion that everybody is out t get him the mueller report was a hoax, and this and that an the other thing, and i think that is been a successfu political tool in the past t discredit his critics, discredit any allegation against him by portraying th mall as being political. and it s a sort of have residents, at least with peopl who like him, who believe that in fact, people are out to get him for illegitimate reasons i think the bigger risk here for him politically is that if it s not just the firs indictment, if it was just thi one, that might be one thing but if there is a second, or even a third or fourth, it wil become harder to make that c
donald trump but when you sa some of the tweets fro marjorie taylor greene and speaker mccarthy, that s not necessarily the case, but i do think that indictment will sho the american people that these are just quote unquote political investigations he was impeached twice he is the reason that there wa an insurrection at our capital and so i believed that hopefully it will do something to the republican party, but again, there are so many leaders who are scared to stan up to him and walk away from him, but unfortunately, they feel as though there is a base that they have to continue t cultivate that is followin him. i m going to pick up with that on you, because republica marjorie taylor greene tweeted that if the manhattan da indites president trump, h will ultimately win even bigge than he is already going t win. how real of a possibility is that i mean, trump s campaign, you should remember, raise millions during his impeachment, and the donations absolutely searched after the mar-