a former president and current presidential candidate puts ou democracy in uncharted territory. trump is already lashing out attacking the investigators, them integrating our justice system, and calling on his supporters to protest. that s all without making an of the pleas for peace w normally expect from someone seeking to lead our nation and republicans, for the mos part, have rallied around him, echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memories, no trump has littl regard for the rule of law he did not care about du process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before the had thei day in court he did not care about politica witch hunts when he campaigned on lock up, locking up his opponent hillary clinton, with chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and if it does, the paybac will be richly deserved. it s a
threatening alvin bragg with a bat. the da s office has reportedly received numerous threats. and, michael, i don t want to get personal, but have to ask you on the air. we talked about this off the air. you ve received a lot of threats. you and your family the last days since th indictment. do you fee uncomfortable talking abou that because it touches me whe you were away. i talked to you son, had prayer with him, ha prayer with you before. and yo shared with me on the phone th other day that the threats had become, had gone off the chain since the indictment well, that is donald trump. that is him blowing the do whistle, so to speak he knows exactly what he i doing. when he was holding u that baseball bat to alvin bragg, he is sending a mob message. he is not just doin it to show a baseball bat, where the baseball bat is slugger made in usa like his reporting. purporting. that is a lie. and, what he is doing is he is trying to invok fear and intimidation. but a
i talk to your son, had prayer with him, had prayer with yo before and you shared with me on th phone the other day that the threats had become, had gone off the chains of th indictment well, that is donald trump. he is blowing the dog whistle, so to speak. he knows exactly what he i doing. when he was holding up tha baseball bat to alvin bragg, h is sending a mob message he is not just doing it to sho a baseball bat, where th baseball bat is a slugger made in usa like his reporting. that is a lie. and, what he is doing is he is trying to invoke fear an intimidation but at the same time, he i also passing the message to hi supporters baseball bats, they work to. now, and see also trying to imply to whoever may b witnesses at this trial that h is trying to intimidate them yeah. so, it has threats o intimidation are not specifically directed at alvin
they are picking up on the president s sort of liberal mob message. can that work? especially when you have a president who does bring out the base going everywhere it seems that there is a competitive race and repeating that over and over and over again. listen, this is a line that people have been using to put down broad based protests since the civil rights movement. this mob statement is something that segregationists used to justify strong police actions against completely legal nonviolent protests. so i look at this as an absolutely another republican move to try to in-flame people, to try to scare people, and that