charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. donald trump: the only crime i ve commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business entries. one instance $30,000 was paid to a dar doorman. alvin bragg spoke with the media detailing his case and told reporters he is keved in what they have found as previous das and previous prosecutors declined to go after the charges. i m doing this for 24 years and i m no stranger to rigorous, complex investigations. i bring cases when they re re
Charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. donald trump: the only crime i ve commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business
Everything in pres precedential past. this is important for everybody to understand. this is a misdemeanor. for almost all charges that alvin bragg is seeing, the majority of them in new york city, he is lowering felonies to misdemeanors to treat actual criminals with more leniency than they deserve. here he is doing the exact opposite, trying to elevate a misdemeanor, which has two year statute of limitation and has played out to five years, that statute of limitation might be in play also, it is more than five years since this happened. this is political and feels like da bragg is the biggest contributor to donald trump s political career in his entire life because bragg may be pushing him right back into the
Vague and a lot of people have a problem with it. steve: no kidding. i m curious, you are in dc and talk to the people involved in politics. this case obviously skyrocketed donald trump s popularity on the republican side. if the primary were held today, donald trump would walk away with it, if held today. over coming weeks and months, the story will fade, what is strategy for the other people running for president to do something about this. ainsley: good question. bret: that s a great question, i don t think there is one. i think it is wait until the hurricane passes. right now you are not breaking through with any policy, any campaign wishes. it is not happening because all oxygen in the room is going to the former president. when you have senator mitt romney come out with a
Sham, we can do the economics and we don t need the people this plays into their hand without a doubt. brian: real quick, el salvador president says, think what you want about former president donald trump, but just imagine if this happened in any other country where government arrested main person, democracy is gone. doug: there is something in that, i don t think it is gone, but suffered serious beating. the u.s. can tell other countries not to use the court, alvin bragg sent that to hell. bri: when mitt romney says he has been unjustly charged. alvin bragg defending his decision to defend donald trump, is he setting a dangerous precedence? bret baier has been tasked with