somebody else s mind, it s difficult to do that but by all outward appearances if it is going to penetrate, what we re going to see is him lash out, as he does, when he feels backed into a corner and we ve already seen that. we ve seen him lashing out at the d.a. lashing out at the d.a. s wife lashing out at the judge lashing out at the special counsel. anybody that is questioning him, or trying to hold him accountable, he is going after him. he s even going after today alone his former attorney general, bill barr, who in the conversation we were just having did not pursue the case against him. i guess he hasn t seen him to be satisfactorily cheering him on over the past few years. again, he didn t investigate what he called election interference not election interference, the fraud during 2020, donald trump wanted him to investigate and to hold the new election and do everything within his power to do things over. and bill barr said, no, i see no
think that we have a many judges , frankly and i m i m before some of them who have shown a venomous and vitriol against president trump. that is like nothing we ve ever seen in the state of new york and practicing for as many years as i have. i ve never seen cases move so fast. unless there donald trump. i ve never seen lopsided discovery issues. and i think he has a serious concern. i think that s how he feels, and he has a right to voice that it s a first amendment right considering what happened with january success. you know, there s a concern about unrest here last week, the former president called on his supporters to protest the indictment. he raised possibility of quote i m quoting here, death and destruction over this case for manhattan, d. a cy vance, who previously investigated the former president. trump said that trump s statements about alvin bragg about in court could strengthen this case against him. listen to this. i would be mindful of not committing some
how weak this case is. we have no idea. we have no idea how strong or weak the case is because the indictment is still sealed we won t know until tomorrow, right? i hate to be disappointing, but we may not know then we ll have a better idea about legal theories, and because everybody is anticipating it s a so-called speaking indictment, that it s not just bare bones but lays out a number of allegations, we may have a clue as to some of the evidence but the d.a. s office typically doesn t put an indictment what all of the witnesses have to say, what all of the documents are so we ll have a better sense of the legal theory of the d.a we may have a sense of some additional evidence, but we really won t know all of the evidence, and there are reports of substantial new, but we won t
touchable. how powerful people get away with it, ellie would donald trump have been indicted if he d gone quietly into the night after the 2020 election? so michael, i can absolutely see the mirror in both sides of this argument. we can t get inside alvin bragg s head, but the fact that i can see both sides of it, i think is a problem in itself. so on the one hand, i know alvin bragg personally. i worked with him at the southern district of new york for several years. i know him to be nothing but a straightforward, honest ethical prosecutor. on the other hand, if you look at the circumstances here, we have to acknowledge the u. s justice department the same office. alvin and i worked at the southern district of new york passed on charging donald trump in january. 2021 they could have they looked at the case decided not to alvin brags predecessor as d. a cy vance had this case in front of him for over a year and did not charge it. and i think the big question that brag, ultimately has t
general merritt garland. anthony coley. who also served as chief spokesman for the department of justice and cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. elie honig is the author of the recent book on touchable. how powerful people get away with it, ellie would donald trump have been indicted if he d gone quietly into the night after the 2020 election? so, michael, i can absolutely see the mirror in both sides of this argument. we can t get inside alvin bragg s head, but the fact that i can see both sides of it, i think is a problem in itself. so on the one hand, i know alvin bragg. personally. i worked with him at the southern district of new york for several years. i know him to be nothing but a straightforward, honest ethical prosecutor. on the other hand, if you look at the circumstances here, we have to acknowledge the u. s justice department the same office. alvin and i worked at the southern district of new york passed on charging donald trump in january. 2021 they co