majority, but even though it s the same majority speaker pelosi had, he ain t speaker pelosi. he doesn t know how to run his caucus the way she ran hers. what is the likelihood in your mind because he needs the vote, he will let him stay in office while in theory he is on trial? look y would never bet on the integrity of the republican party, which has a high tolerance for scandal and corruption and criminality, and george santos to me is not an accident. he s an outgrowth of a broken republican party whose standard bearer is donald trump who on the same day was found liable for sexual assault. the modern republican party is an endless stream of scandal, and i have no confidence in the ability of the republican party to hold george santos accountable at all. and how odd would it be for you, we re literally looking at the possibility that donald trump could theoretically get indicted either in georgia or at the federal level, you know, for
the verdict is a disgrace. a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. carroll later released a statement that in part read, i filed this lawsuit against donald trump to clear my name and to get my life back. today, the world finally knows the truth. this victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed. for trump, this is just the start of what could be a very rough summer on the legal front. he still faces the hush money case brought by manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. there s the ongoing civil lawsuit by new york attorney general letitia james alleging widespread fraud by trump and his company. there s fulton county district attorney fani willis investigation into trump s meddling in the 2020 presidential election in georgia. and of course, the two special counsel investigations into january 6th and into trump s mishandling of classified documents. joining me now is msnbc producer and reporter adam reese who was in the courtroom tod
absolutely not. people who are narcicisstic and have damaged psyches don t feel shame. he is going to be humbled by it because he doesn t like to be a loser. and he just got beaten by two women leading a case that put him in the loser category. he s also, for any of the other lawyers defending him in the georgia case, the new york cases, or anything that comes out of the justice department, it s a reminder this guy is a time bomb in a deposition. he s the worst client you can imaginably have because he is a serial fabulist. he lies at will. he exaggerates. he s thin skinned. he wants to be the center of attention. and you combine all those things in one person as they do in donald trump and you have a nightmare client. and that s ultimately why he didn t testify in court. and this is going to be very frightening i think for lawyers who are representing him in other cases in which he s going to be, i think, put under oath. yeah. i don t think that s why he didn t testify.
came up and he had gone to court and lost such a case, the democratic party would have run him out of town. even i mentioned glover cleveland, mama, where s my pa, he was ridiculed. thomas jefferson who was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, but at the time, it was a tremendous scandal. i can t think of a person, at least in the modern political era, who could survive this kind of onslaught of bad things that they have allegedly done. what does it say about the state of the country, of the party, that donald trump seems to be actually thriving the more bad things he s accused of? you know, one of the things from the beginning donald trump has kind of marketed himself as a misogynist. i mean, he was somebody who was doing beauty pageants and somebody who was objectifying women. he famously went on howard stern s radio show and said my
the jury wasn t nine women angry at donald trump. it was six men in the jury, and they deliberated quickly. the evidence was overwhelming. and so this is a landmark moment. i think history will look at the adult survivors act, and you know, that opening for women like e. jean carroll to come forward and get some bit of justice, not just the $5 million monetary settlement, but the fact that she has her name cleared, and hopefully, joy, she gets her column back. she was a major columnist from 1993 until 2019 for elle and maybe now she comes back at 79 years old and talked about the me too generation and how women can confront sexual predators in various ways and tactics and it s scary because this guy, donald trump, is running for president again. you know, and i think it s so important you said that.