pirro, harold ford jr. shannon bream and gregn ne gutfeld of 5:00 in new york city. and thisy an is the five donald trump going scorched earthscorcd on his guilty verdict and joe y lap oning a victor the left successful lawfare campaign. the president telling millionsfu republicans that they have no right to call the trial riggedo . the american principle that nosb one is above the law was reaffirmed. trump w donald trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. a it was a state case, note a federal case. and it s reckless, it s dangerous and seriousas possible for anyone to say this was rigged just because t they don t like the verdict. likehe big guy then sporting a goofy grin as he ignored questions from reporters. watch this. mr. president, can you tell us, sir, donald trump refersf as to himself as a political prisoner and blames su you directly. what s your response to that, sir r? you do you think that conviction will have an impact on the campaign? thou we d
a couple of things. i think the partisan exuberancge is, uh, at any level, any time after a trial does nothing to enhance confidence in the ruling or enhance confidence our judicial system. uh, i tried to share yesterday that we need s to show some restraint. politic s is is a part of everything, and it s even part of the judicial at some level, because some of our d.a. s acrosls, the country, are elected. some of our judges are elected. someecteand they re not. they re appointed. and if they re appointed, they re appointean thed by peop who had been elected, who have been elected to office. beeno officesome of my partisanw and some who are democrat will say that the judge down in florida, judge canon, who s a graduate of my law school university of michigan, that she somehow or another is a partisan in the race at the not the race, but this trial, this case, and that the thing may be riggedt wi in favor of president trump because president trump nominatethe judgd appointed herf
i will say this. i said it yesterday. jus justice sonia sotomayor wrote the majority opiniontomayt you on earlier. in a case that protects the nrat becausects te their rights were violated, their first amendment fiehts were violated by thth new york of financial services. so i think judges can be can be in these things. and i think as muck h as we president biden may be anti-second amendment, it may not be in that second amendment or eve-second ay notnr people are afforded the protections of the law. but i agree with you. law i they re going to agree with the judge. i think they re going to find an agreement before the weekend is up. so you it s about the fact that at least in part, they don t want the laptop coming out because we were tol d it was all russian disinformation. but the doj says it s real. well, they re not going at present tpto in the laptop at trial. that ties joe to anything. and i disagree. i think this is going to trial. i not your lips to god s ears.e i think it
that if you decide that there s a of the federal election campaign law or, a violation of federal tax laws, you don t have to be unanimous it. resuwe can resurrect some dead misdemeanors and we can convict not just anyone but a former president of the unitedf unit states who is the number one opponent of joe biden, who sent his main guwhosy downow there to help him get that hel that verdict through. look, this is a new times in america. s of there are tens of thousands of prosecutors out there right noecutors w licking theirw saying, you know what, weed the have crossed the rubicon. i don t like the county executive. he doesn t g theme money for my budget. i don t like the governor. i m going to indict him. nor,i m to squeeze witnesses. i m going to i don t even. have to charge, you know,o agre and get a judge who agrees with me or make up a crime. withor maks go in there and sta. it s a bad day for america. and joe, don t talk to me about being irresponsible and dangerous. epartm
the things that makes awescountrt may so awesome, so great, so it s called the rule of law. and justw. because we don t like an outcome, intervene, outcomes i didn t like. ome doesn t mean that we should trash the system. emu shoulddoesn use the system and employ the system to try to remedy what you think is the wronyste tg. and if president trump, who clearly believes the wrong decision wasg. who reached yesterday,e shou he should appeal it and he should appeal it with alld l the might and with all the resources that he has to ensur e that the right verdict is delivered at some. in and if it s not jesse in his mind, he has to accept it becausin e. f us none of us are bigger than thisg thing called the united states of america. and in the judicial system, i believe is an important part i of makes us so unique. well, judge, you can say that we have a great judicial system hav. we do. y but you can also abuseouls the judicial system and it makes it not so great.