house. it was the biggest scam in political history. every dollar you sent him paid to keep his shaky business empire and lavish lifestyle going. it was a sucker s game all along. and you know who the sucker is? it s you. it s the new lincoln project ad that has gotten under trump s skin, delivering an inconvenient and difficult truth to trump s supporters, that in the end, all that he wanted was to sucker and scam them with his big lies about election fraud so that they would become regular there s been reporting about this regular automated small-dollar monthly donors, and as we discussed in the last hour, it turns out the justice department is very interested in this topic as well. adding it to their ongoing criminal investigation into january 6th. new york times is reporting that subpoenas have been issued to several aides this week by a federal grand jury, and they show that the doj is interested in the inner workings of the
the government has enormous powers to come into someone s life and to not only find out, you know, what s under their bed but put them in prison. and it was the use of that in this book which is which makes it different. we ve seen donald trump try and obstruct a lot of different things, a lot of different investigations into him. but the proactive use is what s different and distinct here. frank, i ll give you the last word. is that those proactive targeting and you know, he succeeded. just because jeff berman refused to prosecute greg craig, he still gets prosecuted. a jury found him not guilty in five hours. john kerry didn t get prosecuted but he was investigated. are those the sort of things that you think a round of accountable is still called for? yeah. there needs to be consequences, and that would be fodder for and a predication we just in our discussion we ve established predication to open at least a preliminary inquiry, if not greater. and look, in the last couple o
is the violation of these classified i mean, the mishandling of the documents is the threat to national security. you cannot separate them in any artificial, you know, incompetent or inexperienced or boneheaded legal opinion. you cannot separate the two. right, the substance of a mishandling violation is indeed the classified do you means and it belongs to the executive branch of the government and trump has no property interest in this and they laid it out like law school 101 for the judge, look, we re happy to give back all of the personal documents, photos. whatever you want except those that are mixed and intermingled because that shows how and we
brazen saying again and again in black and white saying not a dollar of this will go to us, and only 100,000 and the yacht and that is so clear to prove and that matters in a fraud case where intent can be tricky. this looks pretty bad, but trump s statements of election fraud and some of the things like the 5 million that you just showed to the january 6th committee, they might be able to argue about. it sure smells as a fraud to me and not as rank and as clean and easy as the bannon case that he just surrendered on yesterday. charlie, i read this and remembered that there was investigative reporting about the inaugural committee. he was before he was inaugurated through the coup plot. i want to read from the times reporting because it suggests
don t let corporations exploit homelessness to pad their profits. vote no on 27. trump told you the election was stolen to rip you off, to sucker you, to take your hard-earned money and shovel it into his pockets. he spent it on himself. not to take back the white