indictment of donald trump on thursday donald trump became the first former commander in chief in history to face a criminal indictment. that s after a grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president as part of manhattan district attorney s alvin bragg s investigation into a hush money payment made into adult film star stormy daniels back in 2016 now that indictment is currently sealed, and that means we and a whole lot of people do not know the specific charges or charge that have been levied against donald trump we do know bragg has been focused on a felony charge of falsifying business records which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years donald trump denies any wrongdoing, denies having an affair with stormy daniels, and he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law that trial has not yet occurred. bragg s investigation is one of many against the ex-president. back in 2018 cohen, trump s former lawyer and fixer, was ntenced t
indictment of donald trump on thursday donald trump became the first former commander in chief in history to face a criminal indictment. that s after a grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president as part of manhattan district attorney s alvin bragg s investigation into a hush money payment made into adult film star stormy daniels back in 2016 now that indictment is currently sealed, and that means we and a whole lot of people do not know the specific charges or charge that have been levied against donald trump we do know bragg has been focused on a felony charge of falsifying business records which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years donald trump denies any wrongdoing, denies having an affair with stormy daniels, and he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law that trial has not yet occurred. bragg s investigation is one of many against the ex-president.
know, when we re talking about the judge being in control of the situation, donald trump he has a chance to go before the grand jury and present his version of events. that s why we that s what caused us to think an indictment was coming because that s typically the last step. he was indicted, and he chose not to donald trump refused to talk to non-right-wing press there s a series of questions about this investigation and others which he frankly has not addressed key questions. for donald trump to the extent one can try to control the narrative, you can try to do that by answering truthfully or at least answering directly, and he s refused to do that at any point, so that is where now there are going to be key questions we will be hearing at court and now we will as the public be able to hear the public evidence and the public testimony against him. yeah, charles, what s the significance of that because vaughn s made this case a couple times we don t know what the charges ar
i should say just about an hour ago, about 3:00 a.m., he posted a quote where s hunter. clearly this is someone still up here in the middle of the night. i would think that would mean he s unlikely to go to sleep since the indictment but also got up to post, quote, cities are not going to choose republican nominee for the next president of the united states his line about this is this is democrats form of, quote, election interference. this for donald trump is all coming at a time in which he is facing an onslaught of investigations, beyond this one we ve got the lawsuits that s right, we ve got a list of these. most of these are criminal cases although the new york james investigation.
legal complication. we will obviously find out about that. i do want to talk about this james investigation. it is not this. talk about, the hush plenty, thing comes with its own peril because their potential historical criminality. the history of it all. but watch, what you see is the most threatening part of the laetitia james investigation in terms of penalties, if he was found guilty? money 200 and $50 million. most of his businesses habitually lose money year in and year out but this is a huge amount of money. she s also going after, he wants, there are terms about this, she wants to run him out of new york. this is what she is seeking. she wants to limit the loans that he can make. how he can do business in new york. there is a list of things she wants to make sure that there are never officers it would be devastating. and it looks like