cohen pleaded guilty to finance charges related to the payments cohen facilitated while working for then candidate trump. let s bring in cnn correspondent kara scannell. we thought the hush money payment wasn t going anywhere, the broader look into trump s business practices. what s old is new again. the hush money payment, that s how they started the investigation back in 2019, looking into the hush money payments, and then it expanded, and they took this broader look at the business practices. you know, there s been a change in the district attorney. alvin bragg is now the d.a., he paused that previous investigation because he didn t believe they had enough evidence to bring a criminal case against trump. the burden of proof so much higher. they had the big conviction of two entities for tax fraud. they seem to be emboldened and have picked up the pace with the focus on hush moneys again. we reported that michael cohen went in two weeks ago, and david pecker, the former chairman of
focused on the future, but there are some grievances he can t just quit. we re going to restore election integrity, we have to. you go to new york, nobody ever gets prosecuted. i m the only one they go after. sending people that are killers, murders, they re sending rapists and they re sending frankly terrorists. we have a woke military that can t fight or win. and the wind turbines are all made in china. they said he s not doing rallies, he s not campaigning. maybe he s lost that step. i m more angry now, and more committed now than i ever was. that was not from trump s first campaign or his second one. that was from last weekend. several of has allies are telling me they re worried he s stuck in the past and are concerned about the viability of his third run. their message to him has been to
the election in 2020. this has been a bad launch from the start for trump, and why do you think so? low energy. we all watched the launch that day, and it didn t come with a lot of fanfare, it took him over two months to even do a campaign event. he can t pull the rally events, you covered many of them. he can t pull the audience he once did. but point of caution, he s still polling the highest. as long as he has the 30% lock, i don t see how anyone can beat him. what do you think of how he has returned to the campaign trail. it has been a slow start. these were his first formal events of the year. he s tired, he s aged. he s running the same script, there s teleprompter trump and off teleprompter trump. teleprompter trump may talk a said with this i m angry and negativity, that works sometimes in an election. it doesn t work all the time in
trump and others to overturn the 2020 election and incite an insurrection which has resulted in hundreds of criminal indictments and nearly 500 guilty pleas. also, the fulton county district attorney, fani willis is looking into trump s efforts to overturn the election in georgia. she has said that grand jury in that case has recommended multiple indictments. her decision to bring charges is imminent. letitia james is suing president trump and his three elder children, according to james, they misled lenders, insurers and tax authorities to enrich themselves. i should note the trump s have denied any wrong doing in that case. the manhattan district attorney has also started presenting its case to a grand jury about trump s role in hush money payments to former adult actress stormy daniels during the 2016 presidential race. that s according to the new york times. trump s former attorney, michael
The former president looks diminished post-midterms, and it’s easy to dismiss his 2024 candidacy. But Trump faced doubts from Republican leaders, pundits, and big donors in 2016 and we all know what happened.