republican constituency, individuals who are unstable and following the lead of the former president and now candidate for president again. or house republicans. and it creates personal risk and danger to investigators prosecutors and judges. donald trump needs to be contempt for his behavior. right, so all of that is happening, lisa, i agree with all that analysis. at the same time, we have new reporting that shows a majority of americans think trump s trial over documents should happen before the gop primaries and the general election. talk to me, lisa, about just the timing here. actually getting the ducks in a row that the chances any of the various investigations and indictments result in a trial this year? i think, alicia, the most important of these criminal investigations and the one that has matured to a federal indictment is the records investigation. and the good news is that the department of justice is prepared to try that case on a
consequences. prosecutors are working trump s case and now face new threats. the washington post reports, quote, for retrospective or posting the names of prosecutors and government workers online and yelling them at demonstrations. threatening them, sometimes revealing details about their personal lives. that is according to experts and political extremism. joining us now to discuss msnbc political analyst and former florida congressman david jolly. an msnbc legal analyst lisa reuben von. i wonder, you are on the trail right now. how is trump talking about his indictments onstage in front of his supporters? right, alicia, look he has taken his legal peril on the road. he is not running from this. he is not trying to mask the fact that he has been criminally charged and is facing pending trials. instead he is using the stages and the microphone that millions of viewers not only on his social media accounts but
and, you know, this is sort of the tough part. can any of them really cracked donald trump? it is going to be very difficult because donald trump also has a heck of a campaign operation. they have phone numbers, emails, voters that voted for them in the past. they just have to keep a plurality of them in their corner in the likes of iowa, new hampshire, here in nevada, south carolina, order to pull off the nomination. this is gonna be tough for others especially because, frankly, outside of ron desantis, they don t have the resources anywhere close to that of donald trump and the super pac is aligned with them. and i m so glad to bring that back to the easy to get lost in this cult of personality. a lot of campaigns come down to the infrastructure and the money behind them. lisa, i also want to talk about something. you have trump on the stump on social media testing out new attacks. and that is particularly interesting to me in juxtaposition with this reporting from the new york t