because the two words i think about with respect to what we re talking about around the indictment is number one, accountability and with respect to alvin bragg, number two is trail blazer this is a person who has seen the evident, has decided to move forward, has pressed forward in light of a number of different reasons why many people would have turned back he s doing his job he s doing what he s supposed to do as a duly-elected law enforcement officer here in manhattan. he believes a crime was committed. he put it in front of the grand jury and now you re seeing citizen trump being treated the same way anyone else would and that s what d.a. bragg is doing, and that s his job. so i think he is to be commended for pressing forward in an environment that many people would have considered to be very, very political he has not let that bother him these may not necessarily be the most serious charges that donald trump faces, but they are the first charges that donald trump is going to fac
lower the temperature. he needs to make sure that he does not do anything to try this case in public opinion he needs to make sure that he has a jury selection that is rock solid, and he has to lower passions so we don t create a really dangerous situation the only job that s harder than alvin bragg s right now are trump s lawyers. barb pointed out that trump can say whatever he wants, but everything he does and says is now could be part of the evidence in the trial. could be part of the evidence in the trial. and he s not used to taking directions from anyone, much less his lawyers he obviously has already done some really stupid things around the facts of this case he s made admissions that will be very important in the case. he s done social media posts that are ridiculous. and could come into evidence
you he was nothing we told you that he was a scam artist and that he shouldn t be president. for him to have to come to manhattan on the same island that he felt he was looked down upon by the elite in new york and be booked and confirm what all of them said about him is more humiliating than if he s indicted on more serious charges in other places. so this is a humiliating night for him. a couple days after he said this was not going to happen, he said this case was over, and he s going to have to go in the same building, joy, that those five young men that were indicted and prosecuted for rape they didn t do while donald trump took ads out calling for their execution, he called for them to be executed, and they were convicted. some of them went to jail for years. one of them who is a national action network every saturday, did 13 years in jail they will see donald trump who
spectacle. but to the point you just made, spectacle and the show that he likely will try to make of this, doesn t really work on prosecutors. it doesn t really work in court. so donald trump can create atmospherics around what is happening, but to your point, he can t control what is happening, and he s used to not being held to the same account as an ordinary person. that s the ultimate tonight is so big, because that s the ultimate stress test. not whether we re country as a country, we re not
and those lawyers trying to control donald trump because he wants to fund-raise off this, he wants to run off this, he wants to incite off this, and the first thing the lawyer tells you when you re indicted for something or charged with something, is shut up. well, that s not in donald trump s repertoire so it s going to be very interesting to see if he can lower the temperature and try to defeat this case based on facts asopposed to the power of the personality. and claire, i take it you probably believe it is wise that the white house has no comment i wonder how long they ll be able to hold out on that i think they should never have a comment this is now about the facts and the law. and i think alvin bragg gets that i think anybody who is around this case would understand that. and i think the president probably understands the point i made a little earlier.