haze not tweezing. he s trying to scare, distract, get his supporters engaged. and he again needs to raise a lot of money. frank, in your piece note for the federal case involving the 2020 election is different since it involves a former presidents who tried to interfere with the peaceful transition of power. tell us what this case is so important, what we shouldn t become numb to trump s legal peril. that we say, oh no, here s another trump charge or another trump indictments, whether on a potential state liberal or a potential federal one? of all the cases and charges the trump is facing so far, and i in no way mean to denigrate them. infect, the documents case, i dealt with classified information for the bulk of my career. that is serious. but this one, this one is different because it goes to the heart of our democratic process. free and fair elections and
not mentioned in the target letter was inciting or assisting an insurrection. would it be a mistake if smith failed to charge trump as an insurrectionist, specifically because of what happened on january 6th? he got some of the similar charges to the lower down conspirators, and i think he s being really careful because he knows jacks mitt is under maximum scrutiny and you don t want to make a mistake. and you also really want to make the charges stick so. i don t think it is wrong to be careful. i think the civil rights statute is really important. the fact that it was used against kkk members in the deep south, and it s really about people having their rights taken away, which was the goal there, i think that it s really meaningful and important. again, the whole thing here is we don t want this to happen again. and i think that is the larger issue and hopefully that will prevent its. as we mentioned, the case would be tried
wayfair, you ve got just what i need this week, a federal judge in new york tossed out donald trump s attempt for a new trial in the e. jean carroll s sexual abuse and defamation case, and essentially declared it the ex president had raped her by the common understanding of the term. trump s team had argued that the $5 million in damages he was ordered to pay carroll should be reduced, and a new trial granted because the civil jury had found him liable for sexual assault, not rape. the crime of which carroll had originally accused him. but u.s. district judge luis kaplan wrote that trump had digitally and not consensually penetrated carol in the 19 90s. trump s legal argument caplan said, mistakenly focuses on the new york penal law definition of rape, to the exclusion of the meaning of that word as it often is used in every day life. and the evidence of what
a case they want to win, they re going to bring the most compelling charges that are supported by the facts and the evidence in accordance with the law. walk me through these charges that have been reportedly laid out in the target letter of the trump received? did any of these come as a shock or are any missing? when you look at these charges, what is it that first come to your mind about the case that could be potentially brought against donald trump? first of all, ayman, looking back. always good to talk with you. for me, as a former prosecutor and a civil rights attorney, it is the deprivation of law. that really stuck out to me because it is not just something you typically see charged but it is something that strikes at the very core of the narrative about donald trump and what he did. the uniqueness about the charge is focused on the notion that in your official capacity as a government employee, as someone representing the usa, you intended to deprive other individuals, in th
michigan, arizona, georgia all being in the mix for jack smith, it s about holding people accountable. sending a message that look, we re going after the big guy, yeah. but you are part of this and you may be facing these charges as well. and the jury appealed to that. imagine the guy in the graphics department for special counsel smith who has approached trial here if this goes the way we think. there are going to instruct the creation of graphics for the jury. there is going to be spoken wheel with trump at the top and you re going to have with johnson and michigan and georgia, and the jury is going to look at that and see that this was a vast conspiracy. this was a man operating in a vacuum, a diluted guy who just thought he had one. this was a strategy, i think that s part of what jack smith is doing. charles, let me switch gears for a moment and get your thoughts on the classified documents case. judge aileen cannon, who s overseeing the case has announced the criminal trial aga