been proven at times to be a lie, proven at times to be consistently false, he s consistently able to make that and get republicans, his rivals to rally around that this is the top of the hour, 2:00 in new york city, and we are going to take a pause, just for all of us to take a breath and remind you of what s happening here donald trump is now inside of the courthouse in lower manhattan. we expecting him to walk down that hallway, where you see that heavy security presence. he is going to go into a courtroom for an arraignment we re told it s likely to be around 30 charges. we do not know what those charges are. we do not know if they re going to be read aloud in court. we do not know how many pages this indictment will be. but we know that donald trump by now, presumably, has been fingerprinted. and he is under arrest as we talk about the implications of this day, politically, neil cottier, let me ask you about the legal argument we make here, in some cases we ve already
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
joyce vance, assuming that the primary charges are going to revolve about falsifying business records what does the prosecution have to prove to make that case so, the prosecution s most important focus will be taking the step that makes what s normally a misdemeanor charge a felony and that means they ll have to prove that the records falsifications were committed in order to either encourage the commission of or conceal another crime. that will be an important focus here there are a lot of options there are tax options. there are campaign finance options. there may be others that they uncovered during their grand jury proceedings and so, like any crime, you have to prove the act, and that s the act, and then you have to prove the state of mind that was committed with and here that would involve intent to defraud. that donald trump intended to defraud when the false entry
deserve better and that s what i want to bring to them. as these gas prices go up, as these grocery prices go up, as congressman continues to spend our grandkids money he focuses on the wrong things and it s completely gone washington. he consistently does beyond obfuscating beyond passing the buck and claiming that he is providing lower tax options for people is consistently focus on the rich and the elites. laura: he s saying you are going to advocates to implement a federal abortion ban i m not sure that s what indianans are caring about right now. he s being completely dishonest, i am pro-life, i m going to protect life but you know what? is position on abortion that he voted for that he would abort any baby at any time at taxpayer expense, that is extreme. i will protect babies. the majority of people want
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