and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester
pensacola, florida, in state or federal court there, had done one-tenth of this, the judge would have already brought the hammer down. he would say do it again i m going to find you in contempt of court and you re staying in the county jail tonight. do you understand? if you don t understand, counsel do you want to explain to your client, one more false move and you re going to jail tonight then i ll let you out of jail but you do it again i ll send you to jail for a week that would happen in any case anywhere in america. so this thing about somehow donald trump is being treated worse than anybody else. i wish i could say what that is. i would say it s just rank horse manure willie, let s talk quickly about the impact of donald trump s speech last night. donald trump has his speech, again legal analysts think he has the political advantage at
just over the last couple of years but if you look over the scope of a decade. places i said mitt romney won by 30 points. she came close to winning losing by only 5 points in one of those counties. we keep hearing the self-righteousness from this conservative candidate his ads against her were extraordinarily nasty. they were tough going both ways. so don t whine if you go into the boxing match and you re throwing hay makers for months, don t whine when it lands on you i want to follow up, john heileman with what willie said again, all eyes are on the d.a. in manhattan, on donald trump. i get it but something much bigger happened last night in wisconsin. and it s part of a trend and it is a trend that s
i did not use or see in federal court but apparently it s rather common and straightforward in state court in new york. here s what happened, willie the indictment is a bare bones recitation of the charges that mr. trump allegedly violated i think george did a great job explaining even if it s misdemeanors it s a a violation of new york state law. when we add detail in a federal indictment we sometimes call it a speaking indictment. it s not just the bare bones but it s the meat on the bones, how the crime was committed, who committed the crime, how the money flowed, things people said to aif hffection wait the crime. it s a road map, if you will it explains to people who care enough to read both documents
democrats are able to mobilize their base much better than republicans and once again, as dave wasserman says it points to abortion and roe being overturned. also this morning, chicago s mayoral race where the winner has a message for the 270,000 people who did not vote for him. we ll play for you those comments good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, april 5th, along with joe, willie and me we have jonathan lemire attorney and contributing columnist for the washington post, george conway and co-host of the circus john heileman and former fbi official chuck rosenberg, an nbc news analyst