good morning, it saturday apri 1st. i am ali velshi, this week marked another inflection poin from the state of th democracy. donald, trump the rookie politician who somehow made it into the white house with zero political experience, only t be disgraced as the firs president to be impeached twic while in office. it is now the first current or former president to be criminally indicted in u.s history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud, that s classified a misdemeanors and the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge stemming from the manhatta district attorney, alvin bragg s investigation of the former presidents role in th hush money payments made to th former adult film actress, stormy daniels with whom he allegedly had a affair, donald trump denie that there wasn t a fair and any interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday, daniel sa
the many and varied lega troubles donald trump is facing, so let s make it easy. he has the investigation and now indictment against him for the manhattan district attorne relating to the hush money payments made to stormy daniel at the end of the 2016 campaig cycle. he has that new york attorne general civil case i jus mentioned. laetitia james is suing trum and the trump organization for fraud involving misleading representation of properties i order to get better loans an insurance. the penalty of that could be a quarter of a billion dollars the fulton county district attorney in georgia is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020 electio results in that state, which included then president trump infamous phone call to georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, demanding he find enough votes for trump to win there are two department o justice investigations, both being overseen by specia counsel jack smith one focus is on trump s role o january 6th, the
she is not afraid and even hopes to be called to testif against trump. trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed until tuesday afternoon when he is scheduled to turn himself in to be formally arraigned at manhattan courthouse while, there he will b fingerprinted, processed and have the charges read to him judge ron mayor shaw wil oversee the, cas coincidentally he is the sam judge who presided over th trump organization s crimina tax fraud trial late last year that resulted in the company being fined the maximum penalt of one point $6 million. now nine of, that the unsealin of the document, the indictmen and the formal arraignment and all of the logistics that go with it, none of that ha happened yet trump and many of his allies have already begun criticizing and accusing the justice syste being corrupt, and biase against him. donald trump like anyone accused of a crime in th united states is presume innocent until proven guilty also entitled to his day i court to defend himself,
him with a baseball bat an alvin bragg s head so there is more here than the normal animist between a defendant and their prosecutor such an important thing ali trump does not like an prosecutor who s going after him but his critiques of d brag and also fani willis in georgia, it s about your intellect and qualifications that is different than what he said about robert mueller or jack smith look when bragg was a federa prosecutor, he specialized and public corruption. you know house a stream team o experienced assistant district attorneys who have been workin this case for two years. bragg has already beat the trump organization, on criminal case. he got a big fat guilt conviction against a corporation and his former cfo but the black prosecutors ar used to being underestimated ali. it happened to me all of the time when i was doing public corruption cases what th