alvin bragg, is moving toward a likely indictment. trump posted this yesterday on his truth social site calling for his supporters to take action. now illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political manhattan district attorney s office indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven and based on an old and fully he debunked fairy tale, the far and away leading republican candidate and former president of the united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week. protest. take our nation back. this is an immense challenge for the media. many of whose members have longed for trump to be prosecuted. to be fair to an ex-president facing charges in a 6-year-old matter a this most people just don t consider that important. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: it was just six days ago that donald trump had his lawyer make the tv rounds to defend him in stormy daniels case. in a lengthy clash with ari melbe, attorney joe tacopina said trump did not
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a secret is they would have vastly preferred almost any other case that was brought against the president to have preceded versus this one. and a lot of them think this is alvin bragg looking to shore up political support in new york by going down this route, gaining more support among democrats. but, look, you rarely come up with cases that are successful if you ve already got in mind the sort of tv movie that you re going to get at the edge of it. [laughter] and i think in this case that s kind of what s going on, and these reporters and comment ate theres know that. howard: are you saying bragg wants to be in the starring role? [laughter] laugh. i m just saying howard: so can does the situation change, kevin, if there is an indictment by the prosecutor in georgia where it s about vote tampering? where there is something about classified cock the units or january documents or january 6th by the doj? then you have the utterly unprecedented and bizarre pros peck of a caught for p
we ve been paying attention for a while. the vast majority of the country, that s just not the country. oh, he s that good governor many in florida who s popular howard: but that s about it. and that s about it. i think there is a danger in the being defined this way and having only one side vocalizing their viewpoint, and you see that in the trend line of the pole polls. you do also see this pretty steady decline since that enormous victory that he won in november, and i think that s part of the reason that he s basically off the national stage. howard: yeah. and trump is coming up in the polls. kevin, i remember when john kerry spent a month in the summer of 2004 not responding to the swift boat attacks on his military record. true or false. and by the time he hit back with, it was too late and he never recovered. he was completely defined by that, and i think the image for most americans at that point was real problematic. i think in this case i actually support the strate