laura: well a blatantly false statement. here s the only thing non-lawyers need to know about this case. if after the 2020 election donald trump had announced that he was retiring from politics, alvin bragg would not have indicted him or if let s say after 2020 trump had gradually evolved in his views and maybe became more like romney or one of the bushes. in that case, alvin bragg would not have indicted him. the real reason that donald trump was booked and fingerprinted today comes down to one simple fact. he has the wrong political views. now, the entire class of politicians and media figures who cheered the proceedings today, donald trump represents an existential threat to the regime that s run our country into the ground for decades, a threat to the credibility of the media that he calls out relentlessly. but most significant of all another trump turn is a threat to the biden family and their nonstop grift machine. alvin bragg is more like alvin bag because he s nothi
thanks to both of you. that s our time. the reidout with joy reid starts right now. tonight on the reidout like i said well, i have been a terrible liar on those subjects. i ran in 2020 for the same exact seat. for congress. and i got away with it then. that was george anthony santos back in february. today, a congressional subcommittee issued a scathing report on his lies and potential crimes. and the use of campaign funds for botox and onlyfans among other things. also tonight, fulton county d.a. fani willis moves to refolk the bond of one of trump s codefendants accusing him of trying to intimidate witnesses and his fellow codefendants. how very trumpian. but we begin tonight with the unholy trinity of the modern day republican party. kanye, elon, and trump. that is according to house judiciary republicans anyway who about a year ago cranked out the tweet that you see on the screen. the tweet stayed up for two months until december 2022 when republicans f
to the biden family and their nonstop grift machine. alvin bragg is more like alvin bag because he s nothing but the bag man for the white house hoping his reward comes when he runs for, let s say, governor as the trump slayer. yet right now he s july the middleman for the dnc and an elicit scheme to interfere in the 2024 election cycle. and his a ston i shallingly thin indictment brag alleges it was trump who may have, now i say may have attempteded to interfere in the 2020 election or may have violated state election laws by allegedly ordering that former mistresses be paid off then concealing the reimbursement of thoseouts. in a few moments we re going to talk with a former chair of the federal election commission who explained why the fec decided against pursuing the case on similar grounds. but as we suspected last week, the question bragg left everyone