damage by representing trump. in other words, while he s legally presumed innocent and the burden is on the government, it is a public fact that even getting a lawyer is hard when you are this yolked to this person you work for who s your coconspirator under the indictment. the florida he did find is a former public defend we are limited experience in the federal courts according to the new york times. if you check there s a federal system for this, the google of courts. it s called pacer. and can t find her name in pacer, in that database. but the times notes she has handled local cases. nauta was out dining with trump as recently as friday. you can see him there. they were together in philadelphia. but this news tonight that nauta s finally gotten a lawyer so he can do step one, which is plea, speaks to the potential gap here between two people whose fates are intertwined. a gap in the very literal time of these arraignments it s taken three weeks but also a gap in
implicitly and explicitly go at the stirrers and say it was never fair and he never had a chance, your lawyer chose them, spoke to them personally. this was not the judge. at the end of the day, you picked the jurors, you did not object, and we got the outcome that we have. thank you both, that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts now. you are not going to have kokomo played well for the weekend? how good was that clip? i got to say, i was laughing. maybe that s what needs to happen. shout out to our beloved and arranged senior producer who watches that show every morning. listen, i would take the beach boys kokomo live at fox square, whatever that was, over tearing down the rule of law. bring the beach boys back. whatever you got to do. thank you, my friend, have a great weekend. so, it really happened. donald trump is been convicted on 34 felony counts in the state of new york. and there is been a lot of reaction to that news, including and espe
thank you for joining us on another busy monday night. in the wake of last week s verdict, as alarming as it is, it s not surprising how donald trump and all his acolytes have been spending their time. attacking the system that held them accountable with escalating ginger s rhetoric targeting everybody from d8 alvin bragg, the judge, and the americans who served as jurors. trump and his buddies are claiming, once again, that the system must be rigged. if their claims of a rigged justice system couldn t be further from the truth, lucky for us, former u.s. attorney is standing by to set the record straight. governor pritzker will join me to talk about the republicans about party over country. what democrats should be doing in this moment. amy walter will break down the political implications of this for november. first, i want to start with a thought experiment. about this whole bricked argument trump is spewing out there. let s consider we live in an alternate universe. i be
thank you for joining us on another busy monday night. in the wake of last week s verdict, as alarming as it is, it s not surprising how donald trump and all his acolytes have been spending their time. attacking the system that held them accountable with escalating ginger s rhetoric targeting everybody from d8 alvin bragg, the judge, and the americans who served as jurors. trump and his buddies are claiming, once again, that the system must be rigged. if their claims of a rigged justice system couldn t be further from the truth, lucky for us, former u.s. attorney is standing by to set the record straight. governor pritzker will join me to talk about the republicans about party over country. what democrats should be doing in this moment. amy walter will break down the political implications of this for november. first, i want to start with
investigation into judge juan merchan, and for d.a. alvin bragg and one of his prosecutors to be investigated by congress. rather than accepting the rule of law, republicans are demonizing the people who enforced it. today the nonprofit group advanced democracy reported that since trump was found guilty there has been a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting, no surprise here, judge merchan and d.a. bragg. post showing alvin bragg next to a photo of a noose showing caption january 20th, 2025. traders get the rope. equally concerning, advanced democracy reports a high volume of new posts calling for the jurors from this case to be docs, with posts saying we need to identify each juror, then make them miserable, maybe even suicidal. joining me now are michelle goldberg, new york times opinion columnists, and tim miller, writer at large for the bulwark.