ali velshi we re following our top stor this morning in a new post for truth social former president donald trum is claiming that leaves from the manhattan district attorney s office indicate tha he will be arrested on tuesday he is calling for hi supporters to protest and quote, take our nation back to be clear, right now, this i just a claim being made by the former president the manhattan da s office ha declined to comment, and there has been no other indication w know of at this hour tha charges have been filed. in a statement following up on trump s post, a spokesman also confirmed that they have not received a notification that trump will be arrested o indicted trump s super pac that out a press release slamming manhattan s district attorney, alvin bragg. this comes after a week of major developments in the da s investigation into trump s rol in the hush money payment made to adult film star, stormy daniels. daniels met remotely wit manhattan prosecutors on wednesday. t
he flew him down to texas, and in the light and the 80, t speak together that point is that for someone like trump, to the extent he knows anything about history a all, the lesson he would v taken away from what richard nixon did in watergate was yes nixon was in jeopardy of being indicted and going to prison but gerald ford had pardon him almost immediately, and nixo spent years of his seaside manchin near the pacific trump may have taken from that the worst that could happen to me, no matter what i do as president, it s been like nixo with forward i will be able to spend that time by my seaside mansion and in palm beach. if gerald ford, at the ver least, not pardoned nixon on month after nixon resigned, at least if he had waited for nixon to be fingerprinted an actually indicted, maybe a least part of the trial to g on, that would have been the message to later presidents. you break the law, you are
there but at the same time, it does look like a purity for people at the top a little bit. when you think? absolutely. it s not so hard to stop and think about an attorney general of the united states richard cline deeds. he was prosecuted in pleaded guilty for misleading congress and lying to congress. and he was convicted. he served a suspended sentence. but there was accountability. there was no question that he wasn t going to be dealt with. because the evidence was very clear about that. in the nixon administration, and watergate. what you had was. accountability. yes nixon alternately was pardoned. but he was indicted in an coconspirator. top members of his administration. attorney general john mitchell, went to prison.