discrimination case about not allowing black people to rent in his building, it s not clear he s paid taxes more than a couple years in his life he s gotten away with a lot, and a lot of his friends have gone to prison for things he did for him. allen weisselberg, paul manafort, michael cohen. you know this man, there s a lot of bravado coming out of his social media now and out of his son, but how do you think he really will react to the idea that he is going to be booked. he has been indicted well, i think first of all, a lot of us are forgetting donald trump just a couple days ago said this case was over. they were not going to go forward. and he predicted that this is not going to happen. well, it s happening so to the last minute, he was delusional that he was still
trail and setting a standard moving forward as to how prosecutors are supposed to treat citizen trump. indeed. let me read michael cohen s statement on trump s indictment. michael cohen was sentenced to prison and went to jail, six years for participating in a scheme for donald trump, and this is the statement. for the first time in our country s history, a president current or former of the united states, has been indicted. i take no pride in issuing this statement and wish to also remind everyone of the presumption of innocence as provided by the due process clause however, do take solace in validating the adage that no one is above the law not even a former president. and claire, one of the central park five, the exonerated five, they call themselves now, sent out a statement as well. it was a one-word statement, and it was karma i think there are some who might be feeling that way politically because this is the president, claire, who ran on lock her up,
over your country thanks to see america catching up, right? x■we re finally getting the idea in our heads that these people are not kings, as youi] suggest, and should be held accountable. and iñr■have to say this, joy reid, not just as an academic, not just as a professor, not just as ant■rappy. i am legitimately happy. because i think that the fact that donald trump has not been held accountable in any significant way thus far was a e■ this country. e■ this country. it emjt r ge have heard . if it emboldens people like jim jordan. it emboldens people like marjorie taylor greene. it emboldens any of thee1 other people out there right now, this exact point, who are planning some sort of resistance, because he s actually been indicted. actually been indicted. it is a good sigz■pá we have a president who is actually being held accountable for these things. 3$■■and i think, for all tooñ■ ■ americans, either through pop culture or television, or movies, or writing,
what st■ not supposed to happen though, barbara mcquade, is that we should fearfá violence s a result of thee1 prosecution of an ordinary citizen. but that s what donald trump is right now. presidential candidate, yes. but he s just an ordinary citizen. how concerned are you fort(■this prosecutor, for his family,t(■ad for theñr■country, given what we k the past and what he sç■t■ capae of doing with his supporters? i am concerned, j. i m concerne÷■)■=u ■á■i■q■ thins that donald trump hasqalready said. as you saw onfá january 6th, as we saw after the search on mar-a-lago,t(■in cincinnati, listen to his words about the fbi,ñ■x■ and then went to an fbi office with an assault rifle, ended up being killed in a standoff later that day. i have to imagine there is someone out thereok who is unhinged, who is going to hear about this, and is going to own hands andi] engage ininto h vigilante violence. ir behavior has set us up for that. i know that around t
agenda that s a strange statement do you want to comment on that that is an odd statement from a governor, no that s an odd statement. i think i would make two comments about it. one, it s hard to call it a dog whistle. it s anti-semitism in that statement, and a governor should be respecting the rule of law. one of the things, and i don t mean to be preachy, but i think on a night like tonight where it s so historic, it does warrant stepping back and noting that many people in this country during the trump administration saw the rule of law by donald trump, by attorney general barr, and by a host of people in congress and others be trampled on the corruption use of pardons, the firing of jim comey, the obstruction of cases in the department of justice for