flourishing this morning on the front page of the new york times, he says the ex president is at home in the indictments glare. you know that this has always been to some degree of the core of trump s appeal that the establishment hates him that they re out to get him that he sort of. you know that he s transgressive and stands for people who feel really alienated from the establishment. and so, yeah, i mean, i think this is some ways back to basics back to him coming down the golden staircase and saying things that are incredibly offensive. look what he s fund raised. yeah i mean, i saw and i think it s you know, i do think there s a second question of is there anybody who says now i like him more? i don t know, but in terms of just keeping the faith with the people who really fell in love with him in the first place who are already on all his email list and clicking to whatever he s asking them to click forward to give him money. i mean, it s a bit that s obviously working, and it al
weekend weekend, every embracing for what s gonna happen this week. you ready for this week? we are expecting a very busy one. so let s get started with five things to know for this monday, april 3rd 2023 donald trump. set to arrive in new york today ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. trump facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud. also former arkansas governor asa hutchinson says he is now running for president. the former governor says that he has already also calling on trump to step out of the race. meanwhile, oil prices spiking overnight after opec plus announced a surprise cut in production. by the administration, slamming the move in their response. also this morning, nasa set to announce the astronauts chosen for it are two mission. it will be the first manned space flight around the moon in 50 years and go so tigers g e a u x the way we spell it in louisiana, by the way, all shoes women s basketball team as we say, lady tigers, if you re from louisiana
scheduled for tuesday night after the arraignment, do you think mar-a-lago excuse me after the arraignment? do you think that he s going to make a spectacle at the courthouse. no i don t. i don t know. and i think that i think that is a really good question. it sounds like he wants to pick his place and time to do it wants to look like the president not look like a felon and you know, and i do think you know the way that the new york justice system works, he ll he ll have a lot of control over as he often does over his appearance over the situation. i think he ll make the most of that about the 60 minutes interview last night that leslie stall did with congressman marjorie taylor green. um i would like, i think we have a clip. let s play it for people who didn t see the whole thing. are you saying that you don t stand by what s on your social media? well, of course i stay in for what s on my social media. but at times, not you re not always in control. we have all kinds of people that
great read, and it has rave reviews. and it s just so perfect to talk about this part of your reporting from the book, joan in this moment as trump literally prepares to go before a judge in court, you start your piece this morning on cnn this way, quote some supreme court justices thought donald trump was setting them up. tell us more sure this is back in october of 2018 after the very contentious senate confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh. president trump wanted all the justices to come over to the white house for a celebration celebration of the kavanaugh confirmation now in the past, when presidents had invited the justices over they resisted going because they didn t like the optics of, you know, a political event and breaching the separation of powers, but the some of the justices encouraged the chief chief justice john roberts to check with the white house counsel s office. for what kind of ceremony it would be, and they were persuaded that it would be a reserved, you know
his inner circle that in between rounds of golf this weekend, trump spent his time on the phone texting, calling allies and touting the political positive of this indictment. he went over pull numbers that showed him leading in a hypothetical head to head with ron desantis. and he talked about those fundraising numbers. we know the campaign has said that they raised $5 million in the 1st 48 hours after that indictment was announced. we ve also learned that trump and his advisers are looking at ways to politically capitalize on this indictment, one of the things that they had been batting around was actually putting trump s mug shot onto campaign merchandise like shirts and mugs . that s something as sort of a rallying cry for his supporters . obviously as we know we are still uncertain whether or not he will actually get a mug shot, as we heard from paula authorities are worried about that potentially leaking, which would be a violation of state law. katelyn polantz this already though