we ve seen play out before, before these major events. there also have been events where nothing has happened, like in manhattan when he was arraigned. but it was just sort of, you know, especially the kari lake audio where she talks about how to get to trump, they re going to have to go through her and all of trump s supporters millions. millions of supporters who are members of the nra and then this other language made by conservative commentators about milley, about what they wanted do to milley if they legally could. kill him. correct. it wasn t hard to find these different examples. and i actually looked, i googled it, mary, which is probably more than one of an extremists to see if republicans
widespread violence or plans to engage in violent protests. i saw that from a private intelligence group that really predicted a lot of what happened before january 6th and was watching all the chatter on the donald and trying to warn the fbi. that group actually said not seeing any plans for violent protest. i think the real concern among some of the law enforcement folks i talk to is that some of this violent rhetoric, particularly among trump supporters, people like kari lake who talked about millions of nra members and, you know, other members of congress being on a war footing and even trump when he talks about the corrupt justice department saying they re really going after you, speaking to his followers, not just me. it only takes one or two unbalanced individuals to be influenced by that to do something drastic. and we saw that with the person who attacked paul pelosi at the speaker of the house s home and
more republicans are going to walk through the open door that has been provided for them by trump s own behavior to say this is enough. i think that still does matter a bit around the margins here. the more people calling this out and trying to draw lines the better. i do think we have to accept this is a dynamic where the normalization of grievance-based political violence is a part we re going to be dealing with from now until election day until 2024. it s an unbelievably bleak picture. a committee looked at trump s tweet, to come to washington and be wild and the groups that assembled there at his direction and it s come up in a lot of their defenses and trials. rhetoric like this has consequences said the lead investigator for the house committee that investigated the january 6th attack on the capitol and trump s efforts to
around the globe again. so the extent of the potential damage here is just unknown, and i think will always be unknown because of what donald trump has done. in 2017, you described donald trump as wittingly or unwittingly being coordinating with the russians. perhaps unwittingly seemed to be your conclusion in congressional system. andrew mcgabe opened a counter intelligence, not criminal investigation, but counter intelligence into the question of whether firing comey because comey refused to fire mike flynn or sergei kislyak was obstructive. again, a counter intelligence investigation. we learn in the sort-pile-up and carnage of the post-trump presidency that there was never a counter investigation done into trump, that those questions
before the disgraced twice impeopled, now twice indicted ex-president is set to be arraigned in a south florida courtroom. let that sentence sink in. but putting aside the legal rubric cube of trump s lawyers and trump s appointed federal judges who may or may not recuse themselves, put that track aside for a second. what we know how guarantees that this is a white knuckle moment for our nation for one reason, because of what the atlantic calls the national security nightmare that we find ourselves in, because that is what allegedly hording some of the countries most sensitive intelligence secrets in bathrooms and ballrooms and showers for more than a year and moving them around and around to all those places causes a national security nightmare. to understand the severity of the charges against trump, consider a thought experiment. imagine that vladimir putin is one day driven from the kremlin,