welcome to the beat. i m ari melber joining you live on this monday to start the week and the holiday. donald trump hit with brand new restrictions hit with his government trial and now under court order blocking him from discussing trial evidence in public this is a kind of a brush back it limits donald trump s ability, at least the way the rules are set, to respond to statements that may also quite bother him new condemnations coming from former trump administration officials themselves, shredding the legal and other denials that donald trump has made. i don t need to read the indictment or believe its allegations are true, although i m pretty confident they are. it was very disturbing. based on his actions, if proven true, no. it s irresponsible actions that places our nation at risk. the fact of the matter is he is a consummate narcissist and he constantly engages in reckless conduct those are just some of the brutal rebukes and experienced factual takes from pe
partisan and then internal strife that this chilled efforts to vinvestigate former president trump. one official telling the post the decision was made early on to focus d.o.j. resources on the, quote, riot we ll come back to that because it wasn t just a random riot, the notion of opening up on trump was seen as fraught with peril. this is very james comeyesque. when instead of just doing the thing before doing the thing you are fixating, obsessing and sitting around at work talking about whether the thing might be interpreted as political it shouldn t be political. they should never go after