talking about people. it is not unlikely that someone out there will hear his words as a call to action, and so now we are seeing this trend. it is often the case when someone swats someone else or makes a bomb threat, we see copycats. this has become a trend around the country. it s incredibly dangerous, and i put the responsibility at the feet of people like donald trump who engage in the kind of rhetoric that starts this. what do we need to do? i think we need to enforce the law to its fullest extent to make sure people understand that this is a serious crime, and that there are consequences to be paid. hey, barbara, we re looking at these live images right now inside the courtroom. we ve been given an opportunity to get a camera in before the proceedings officially get underway, but there you see donald trump sitting at his defense table alongside chris kise and alina habba. again, defense goes first with two hours or so of closing
threat to donald trump as the candidate for president. how do you see it, barb? how would you rank the threats to trump legally? well, i still see the federal election interference case as probably the most significant case. that s the jack smith case. that s the one that seems to be looming, even if there is some delay based on immunity. i still see that case going to trial before the summer. and i think a conviction in that case not only presents prison time for donald trump, but also exposes the big lie and the attack on democracy. i think it is important and a threat not only to donald trump, but really important to our country and our history going forward. danny, looking outside the courtroom, when trump was headed in, we reported out how he was still really angry that the judge wasn t going to allow him today to deliver part of the closing argument for the defense and is vowing to have a press conference. so he will speak today later on. could words that come after
know from pretty much the beginning of this trial, trump s team has been saying they re going to appeal, right? because, again, the judge already found fraud, so they know that there will be damages here that trump will be ordered to pay at the end of the day. this is a case that began years ago when trump was still president when we learned of this investigation and the charges themselves were brought in 2021. this argument that it s all tied to the statute of limitations, what say you? they re still maintaining this argument. this is something that trump talked about in one of his conference when is he came out of the courthouse many weeks, if not months, ago. they re arguing that some of the claims the a.g. didn t bring them within the applicable statute of limitations. now, there are all kinds of rules to get around the statute of limitations. it can be an ongoing course of conduct. there are many exceptions to a hard rule that after a certain date you can no longer bring the cla
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