the republican party s front-runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 3 that is4 the reality the republican party must now grapple with, if they were into reality. so that sre an issue. what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has precisely zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted by a case brought by a new york city prosecutor whoas does not repor to president biden. facing another ten criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases against trump was brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from nor coordinates with president f bidench so donald trump has reacted in a way he traditionally does when reality does not fit with his preferred reality. he lies about it. he claims without evidence president biden is the one really pulling the strings. he these are all biden trials. they re all biden cases. these aren t cases
to write that moment out of history. hillary clinton, i didn t say lock her up, and i say pretty epenly, all right just relax. i didn t say lock her up. i know it was a long 27 seconds ago, but7 here it is again. she should be locked up, i ll tell youoc right now. she should be locked up. she should. i should also note here donald trump s claim he gave up trying h to prosecute hillary clinton after he won the election is also very much a lie. i we know from special counsel robert mueller s report that trump was fixated on the idea of prosecuting clinton and actually pressured his first attorney general jeff sessions to do just that, to prosecute hillary clinton. oh, but that whole thing, that whole wthing, that s been wipe from republican memory. here s what congressman jason smith told conservative media today while merrick garland was
hanging over donald trump s head. totr your other point about sta cases what s interesting about they really go after trump s lawyers. the case to trump lawyers including chen chesebro the architect of the fake electors scheme to go after the lawyers even if donald trump did win. what you re looking is states who seem very empowered today tm go after people who are helping trump break the law in those states. and it s going to make it him to find people who sign up again. we have state courts and federal courts, the justice department and prosecutors. even if the doj doesn t do it under trump, clearly there are states that are i willing to do things likein this. yeah, the states plow ahead. and as weta know from the education you gave us at the top of the hour, the states are not working at the behest of the federal government whether merrick garland is the a.g. or not. katie benner from the new york
rule of law is rigged in this country. katie, for people who don t understand i think it s worth articulating the sort of independence of the attorney general. they called merrick garland up on the hill to insiniate he s pulling the strings in fulton county ands manhattan. fornd people to understand bett how it all functions can you explain that relationship or lack thereof between someone like merrick garland and someone like fani willis? i ll make a couple of points. merrick garland he s the largest law enforcement agent in the federal system, he s part of the executive branch. so of course we have state systems. we have state courts,e and we have statee laws. he makes sure that all federal laws are enforced. so, for example, what trump is charged with in new york, those are statewi laws. those are not federal laws. it is not about anything the justice departments will do. it s about whatst happens in th state of new york prosecuted by
reality. he lies about it. he claims without evidence president biden is the one really pulling the strings. he these are all biden trials. they re all biden cases. these aren t cases. these are biden this is using the justice department to go after yourde political opponent. joe biden isol a threat to democracy. crooked joe biden ordered his top political opponent. trump has repeated some version of that lie over and over for the past two years. every elected republican in congress must now attach himself or herself to that lie no matter what reality dictates. and today we saw exactly what that looks like when at or near merrick garland testified before the republican led house judiciary committee at a hearinm ostensibly about oversight of thebo justice department.