retribution for the guilty verdict against him in new york city. in an interview with the far right network news max last night trump continued to claim he didn t receive a fair trial, complaining that the jurors never smiled at him. he also threatened to prosecute his perceived foes, specifically former secretary of state hillary clinton who had simply nothing to do with this verdict against him. mother theresa couldn t get a fair trial here, i said that. and no, you couldn t. i never saw a glimmer of a smile from the jury. it was a trial that everybody said shouldn t have been brought including bragg didn t want to bring it. nobody wanted to bring it until i decided to run and then was beating everybody by a lot and then was beating biden by a lot in the polls. but, you know, it s a very terrible thing. it s a terrible precedent for our country. does that mean the next president does it to them? that s really the question. wouldn t it be terrible to throw the president s wife and t
this man who looks like an angel but he s really a devil. you look so nice and soft. people say he seems like such a nice man. unless you saw him in action it was a rigged trial. we want to the venue change. where we could have a fair trial. we didn t get it. we wanted a judge change. we want to the judge that wasn t conflicted, and obviously he didn t do that. even cnn s top legal analyst calls the verdict of secure, unprecedented. the new york mag he writes this the charges against trump are not just unusual. they are bespoke. seemingly crafted individually for the former president and nobody else. it s better characterized as the frankenstein case. cobbled together with ill fitting parts into an ugly awkward but more or less functioning contraption that just might ultimately turn on it s creator. turning on it s creator is right. last night trump shattered another record.
think should be president. right now donald trump is on stage in indianola, and last night trump sent his supporters would walk on glass to vote for him. but for one first time caucus goer, she broke out her semi. if trump is in my town, that is fabulous. i will knock snow down to get here. did you caucus eight years ago? no, i didn t start voting until 2020. for donald trump? are you involved because of donald trump? yeah. so you can be a first time caucus goer? yeah. i couldn t stand politics, at all. but when i saw them all attacking trump and really i would just like, why are they attacking trump? nbc s vaughn hillyard is in indianola, iowa for us. what is the vibe there, vaughn? are all their supporters as enthusiastic as when we just heard from? absolutely. the question we ve been asking about is whether folks are
as we get into tomorrow, the rockies bringing snow there and bitter cold temperatures on tap by the time we get into the weekend. be in it plains and spread east. this is going to be a mess across the great lakes for heavy snow, gusty winds, travel will be difficult. and that rain starts to work over those same portions of that dealt with heavy rain over the past 24 hours, and on top of that we ll have another round of potentially severe weather in the forecast. lots to cover in the days ahead. that was meant to be the good news. angie lassman, thank you. still ahead, this is relevant, the iowa caucuses are just days away and former president trump still maintains a large lead in the polls despite barely showing up for campaign events in the state. coming up we ll have analysis whether trump s absence in the trail from iowa will affect support there. and how a brutal winter forecast might impact turnout there, too. that s just ahead on way too early. on way too early.
meanwhile at his new york civil fraud trial. sources familiar with the former president s strategy tell abc news trump intends to personally address the court, but they caution that plans for the defense s closing argument remain fluid. nbc news has not yet confirmed that reporting. the fraud trial threatens to upend former president trump s real estate empire. new york attorney general letitia james has accused trump of inflating his net worth by fraudulently doctoring his company s financial documents. the former president has denied all wrongdoing. last night trump went on a social media rant posting about tomorrow s trial. in one message he called the presiding judge a, quote, sham and disgrace. there is a lot going on in trump s legal world. so joining us now former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. she s co-host of the sisters in law podcast and author of the forthcoming book titled attack from within, how disinformation