on the former president whose finances he handled for decades. off the heels of that news, the times is out this afternoon with a preview of a new book that could have devastating consequences for alvin bragg and his office. the book is written by mark pomerantz, he is a prosecutor who resigned from bragg s office last year after bragg chose not to indict trump at that time. the times reports this. quote, for months beforehand mr. pomerantz had mapped out a wide ranging possible case against the former president under the state racketeering law. the people vs. donald trump, that broader approach based on a theory that trump presided over a corrupt business empire for years, a previously unreported aspect of the long running inquiry. mr. pomerantz and his colleagues cast a wide net examining trump enterprises, trump university, his education venture and his family charitable foundation.
he demanded absolute loyalty. he seemed always to stay one step ahead of the law. mr. pomerantz, a prominent litigator who has prosecuted and defended organized crime cases writes of trump, quote, in my career as a lawyer i had encountered only one other person who touched all these bases. john gotti, the head of the gambino organized crime family. now, lucky for us mark pomerantz will be our guest on this set on tuesday. we can ask him all about what he is writing. we are only seeing snippets of it. putting the squeeze on the former trump organizations is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters, barbara mcquade, a law professor the university of michigan, andrew weissman, former justice department prosecutor, former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel investigation, with me at the table tim o brien, bloomberg
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constitutional duty. so in the end this is not as it may appear, a story of inaction in a time of crisis, but instead it was the final action of donald trump s own plan to assert the will of the american people and remain in power. not until it was clear that his effort to violently disrupt or delay the counting of the election results had failed did he send a message to his supporters in which he comenseerated with their pain and he told them affectionately to go home. that was not the message of condemnation and just punishment for those who broke the law that we expect from a president whose oath and duty is to ensure the laws are faithfully executed, but instead it was his newest version of stand back and standby. congresswoman, the newest
potential contenders it s very concerning how this could turn out for the future of elections in 2024. we see people in 2022 as has been noted kari lake, for example, hosting massive rallies talking about how it was stolen from her and we re going to see more of this. and it s undermining the trust of the american people, the trust in government and the trust in elections that the former president is at the center of this and has not yet been held accountable under the law. the piece that was so clear by the end of the public hearings was what the committee had evidence of was intent, intent to lie. there s a piece of general milly s transcript that came out where trump has said to him i think it s in the context of iran let the next guy deal with it, we lost, we re leaving. you ve got cassidy hutchinson having that incredible call where he said i don t want