ordinary americans we just wrote in history good morning, waking up a convicted felon just five months before voters will have to decide whether to send him back to the oval office. donald trump has spent the last four years telling his supporters the 2020 election was stolen from him. and he has spent the last seven weeks telling them the trial was a political sham. here s what he said yesterday. the real verdict is going to be november 5, by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. this was done by the biden administration. in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent? and i think it s just a disgrace and we ll keep fighting. we ll fight til the end and we ll win president biden s campaign agreeing with trump on that very first part of what he said, writing this in a statement right after the verdict, quote there is still only one way to keep donald trump out of the oval office at the ballot box, convicted fe
recently, a self-coup like donald trump had, they were quipping that he was president or prime minister in the morning and a prisoner at night. very swift. we have been an outlier because donald trump instigated a violent coup attempt over two years ago, and until now, has paid very little price. there s an enormous consequence to this. he s been able to hold on to his personality cult, he s been able to continue to get, you know, money from his supporters. and it sends a message to our allies that we haven t been serious about holding him to account. so this mugshot is telling not only the american people but our allies that we do consider everyone equal in the law. and we will hold him accountable and subject him to the same treatment as everyone else. that s enormous given the cult
self-coup in america before. it s something you see elsewhere in the world, so it is, i think, the most important and it also is likely to go first because alvin bragg has said, hey, i ll step back in effect. oh, you think it will go first. we ll come back to that. alana, we know that the former president s team has been coordinating its public response, they re talking to surrogates and talking to gop lawmakers knowing that they re going to be speaking to the media. now you have some new reporting that top fox executives are trying to get trump to commit to the first debate on their network. what more can you tell us? reporter: well, that s right, brianna. kristen holmes and i have learned donald trump on tuesday night shortly after he learned that he was being indicted in the special counsel s case regarding his efforts to overturn the election dined with former fox news executives including jay wallace as well as fox s chief executive suzanne scott and encouraged him to
trump. alvin bragg, the manhattan district - trump. alvin bragg, the - manhattan district attorney, can only prosecute crimes under the laws of new york. and this is clearly a crime in the state of new york, as explained with the falsification of financial records to conceal another crime. but it did happen a while back in connection with the 2016 election. and everybody understands the grave danger the united states was in in january of 2021 when danger the united states was in injanuary of 2021 when there was an invasion of the capitol and attempt to overthrow the united states government, sedition, insurrection and donald trump clearly encouraged that. and he also planned to pressure the justice that. and he also planned to pressure thejustice department to declare the election illegal and even talked about sending the military into seas develop boxes. that s a coup. we ve seen that in a whole bunch of countries around the world. we have not seen a successful self coup in the united
crimes under the laws of the state of new york. this is clearly a crime of the state of you know new york. it did happen a while back. everybody understands the grave danger the united states was in in january 2021 when there was an invasion of the capitol and it attempts to overthrow the us government. donald trump clearly encouraged that, and he also planned to pressure the did justice department to declare the election illegal and talked about sending the military in to seize the ballot boxes. we ve seen that in a whole bunch of countries around the world. we haven t seen a successful self coup in the united states, but we came very close in january 2021.