it s 4:00 in new york on a monday. an empire built on lies. that is how one veteran prosecutor describes the twice impeached disgraced ex-president s family business. the trump organization. it is the linchpin of the image of a successful businessman that donald trump sold to his voters for years. but those are the words of mark pomerantz. you re going the hear a lot about him in the coming days. he is a former prosecutor for the manhattan district attorney s office, a man who spent a year poring over financial statements from the ex-president s businesses and interviewing potential witnesses about them. he came to one inescapable conclusion, that donald trump committed financial crimes. here is what he said to cbs news about his boss, manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s decision to halt the grand jury probe that was looking into trump s finances, a decision that led pomerantz to resign in protest. if you take the exact same conduct and make it not about donald trump and not about
Were candy and nuts, wed all have a Merry Christmas but this is what we have. And the intermediates and think about the republican party is, if you are in fact going to put partisanship as your central Organizing Principle. If Reflexive Partisanship is the most important thing i would argue that you need to go back and read george washingtons farewell address. You need to read the founders that otherwise, they love, they love the founders when they can move it around to agree with them. Its very clear that if Party Spirit became the Organizing Principle that that was going to be fatal to the constitution. And its very interesting when bar said, its suicide. I mean, the idea that president bidens leading us to national suicide, havent even sure what hes talking about . But Lincoln Use that image and his first major speech to the 18, he said, if we ever fall, its not going to be from a foreign foe, is going to be
Do wonder again, were talking as though this was an inevitability that it would be these two i mean, more moderate conservatives who perhaps feel a little bit more homeless and the republican party might have been tempted to crossover is in the voter base. I mean, they have now hello, been presented with this choice where it was never an inevitability that it would be these two men mean what if there had been a different option within the democratic party . Well, what if if if sands and buts were candy and nuts, wed all have a very christmas as but this is what we have and the intermediates and think about the republican party is if you are in fact going to put partisanship as your central organizing principle. If Reflexive Partisanship is the most important thing i would argue that you need to go back and read george
To in the next nine or ten months or so, is replacing Reflexive Partisanship like my team, right or wrong with reflective partisanship. Partisanship is fine, weve been partisan you know, jefferson said we have been dividing themselves into parties since rome. That is okay. In fact, the constitution would not work without them as it turns out. Only voting because of a partisan label is in fact, i believe, undermining of the spirit of the constitution. The spirit of declaration of independence. I am lucky. I do not have particular passions about particular policy issues. I believe that i do believe that this experiment needs to go on. I just worry and i hope i am wrong, but i dont think i am, given the evidence of the last ten years now, that a reelected trump would not only damage that experiment, but he darn well might end it. I dont say that casually, i
Dont think theres a lot of people are confused. I just personally think they are wrong. They probably think that i am both. It is totally fair. I dont think that and again, i know youve had conversations. I live in tennessee, and so when i say i have conservative friends, it is redundant. They just have a different view. They have a different view of the things that and i dont think it comes from a place of malice. I really dont. I do think it comes from a place of reflexive partisanship. One of the things that i hope we can discuss and maybe come