first federal president to ever surrender to authorities. first former president ever be fingerprinted by authorities and first to go before a federal magistrate for arrest and arraignment and face years in prison. if convicted. and jake, of course after pleading not guilty to all counts, it seemed to be back to business as usual for trump. making a campaign style stop at a restaurant just moments after he left a courthouse. posting for photos with well-wishers. even had a group literally praying over him as he was there in the restaurant alongside his codefendant walt nauta. from there is back to bedminster for a fund-raiser. a fund-raiser in a speech. we are not carrying that speech live. in a moment, we will play a short portion of it one that gives you a look into his state of mind and how he is trying to frame his defense to his supporters. joined now by new york democratic congresswoman and house oversight committee member alexandra ocasio-cortez. thank you for being
Part of the charges that have been that are part of this indictment. he had this quote that was saying, that it is used for spies, for traders. but it s obviously much more expensive than that. what do you say about it is incorrect absolutely incorrect. it s part of a larger act, the espionage act. it covers people who had at one time, access to documents. because they had clearance to those documents. then they took those documents from a place where they should have been under secure quarters, and either help them, or kept them somewhere else. or share them with other people. that is what it is alleged that he has done. it doesn t have to be a mail drop with a spy-versus-spy meet each other, and hand over secret dye documents. it s the improper use and handling of classified documents. in this case, documents that were alleged to contain defense and military secrets of our country. and that restored in places, he s there at the former club, at his club tonight. we also know he to
in the nearly 234 years of the american presidency, no former president has ever had to answer to anything more daunting then a verdict of history. tonight, former president trump returned to his club in new jersey having made history. by becoming the first former president to ever face federal charges. good evening from miami, i m kaitlan collins along with jake tapper in washington. they re in the federal chorus behind you, trump answer to 37 counts all connected with keeping federal documents. some highly classified. conspiring to construct federal documents to one of the. back all of firsts.
Stern words for his old boss. telling the wall street journal, quote, having read the indictment, these are very serious allegations. i can t defend what is alleged. that said, he also told the journal, it s hard for me to believe that politics didn t play some role in this decision. of course, that is pretty similar to what other republicans are responding to this indictment, what they are saying on capitol hill. trying to thread a very tight needle. others though, are still all in, on the former president. even when it comes to photos like this of national security secrets that were stored in the bathroom of the ex president s florida club. was that a good look for the former president, to have boxes in a bathroom? i don t know, is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? a bathroom door locks. as someone who s been to mar-a-lago, you just can t walk through mar-a-lago of your own accord. because secret surfaces all over the place. there are