and no campaign funds were used. what was trump supposed to do? write a giant sweep sized check and hand it to stormy in times square. trump is a billionaire being extorted by a porn actress. of course go through a lawyer. do you think bill clinton skeletalled with all those women without a lawyer? by the way which ledger did bill clinton file his settlements under. all that hush money that congress paid out those weren t filed as campaign expenses. now, if you want to see a crime, look at alvin bragg s office? how did cnn know what was inside the sealed indictment? the night the story broke. i m told by my sources this is 34 counts of falsification of business records. jesse: braggens office leaked the indictment to cnn. unlawful grand jury disclosure. that s a felony. there is actually more evidence that bragg committed a felony than trump did. so, how is trump even charged
indictment. guys? will: thank you, alexandria. let s go ott wall to learn more about this indictment of former president donald trump. who are the characters? who s involved? how did this all start? well, it started, pete, down there with you with former porn star the stormy daniels. pete: that s right. so before the 2016 election, there were allegations. donald trump still denies those allegations, and there are documents for stormy daniels rachel: from her, she did too. pete: and michael cohen has documents that deny the allegations. the allegations are a relationship between stormy daniels and private citizen donald trump for which a payment was made so that revelations of that relationship would not come out. will: it s important to note that this indictment, really, honestly, this story is not about an extramarital awe affair, it s not about a porn actress. when it s about what it s about is bookkeeping. the allegation is donald trump made payments to stormy daniels, but those
the usa, donald trump must go to court. in france, the newspaper, the headline, stormy daniels, the porn actress who has become donald trump s little big problem. and here in the uk, the tabloid the mirror, donald trump sends fundraising e-mail minutes after the indictment drops in the u.s., this issue isn t as polarized, democrat as it is republican as it is in the united states. several londoners say if he did what he s accused of, he should be held accountable. take a listen. i think he should be as liable as anyone else. i totally agree it sounds wrong, so, yes, he should face a lot, yeah. and, chris, even though the indictment of a former president is unprecedented in the united states, we should point out it s not quite as uncommon as in
is the first person to take on permanent washington. in 2017 donald trump dropped on d.c. like a nuclear bomb. the president was finally telling the bureaucrats who pulled the levers of our government. permanent washington then hit trump with everything they had. investigations impeachments, and leaks the useful idiots in the press who cost play like they speak truth to power but, instead, carry the water for the powerful. 2020 comes around and they hide under hunter biden s laptop right before an election only pulling back the curtain after joe biden slips into the white house. now trump s back on the campaign trail, promising, in fact, in ed the ukraine war within 24 hours. no says permanent washington. so a district attorney in new york that almost no one has heard of cobbles together a frankenstein prosecution to take down his party s biggest political enemy. the two star witnesses a disbarred lawyer and a porn
rigged already to jesse s point, not the one where he said he agreed with me, alvin bragg and his office, someone needs to be very clear about how this got upgraded what the exact process was, what the timing of all of this was. i ve got to jump out. thank you very much for joining us on breaking news. it s time for special report and continuing coverage right here on the fox news channel. former president trump has been indicted. bret: thank you. good evening. welcome to special report. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, history. fox news has learned from two law enforcement sources that a grand jury in new york city has indicted former president donald trump, this is the first former president to face criminal charges. the precise charges not currently known. the case is focused on a hush money payment to a porn actress during his 2016 campaign. this is a moment that will shake up the 2024 race, but again,