welcome to prime weekend. i m nicole wallace and let s get right to the week s top stories. threats and intimidation leading to doxxing and s.w.a.t.ing apparently. not enough to satiate donald trump and his maga accolytes. of course that was for concealing hush money payments to a porn star and it was meant to hide that information from the american voter ahead of the 2016. now trump allies are propertying their revenge and their retaliation against the people who have had the audacity to hold the ex- president accountable. of course all this happens at the expense of the rule of law. basic decency and our very democracy. new york times out today with quote, within hours of a jury finding trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into calls for action. since then prominent gop leaders and out of government have demanded that elected republicans use every available instrument of power against democrats. including targeted investigations and prosecutions. here s how trump
accountable. new york times with this, quote within hours of a jury finding mr. trump guilty last week, the anger conyield into demands for action. since then, the prominent gop leaders have demanded they use every instrument of power again democrats, included targeted investigations and prosecutors. here step miller puts it is every house committee controlled by republicans? in every way, it needs to right now with every republican d.a. to start is every donor off the sidelines and in the game, the rich guys, the wealthy guys? everything facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right-to-now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these why do you have to talk to jesse waters that way? maybe he knows. i don t know. echoes miller s tirade, trump s comrades in arms in the january 6th bannon said in a text message to the times on tuesday that now is the moment for obscure republican prosecutors around the country to make a name for themselves by pro
There, our maybe susan collins. most of them are very happily going alongy echoing his talking points, going after the jury, going after merrick garland, and going after the fundamental american system of justice. the end game of that is going to be the same end game as big lie 1.0, right? the results is always the same. it s not going to be pretty. we don t know if it s a storming of the capitol or some other time of uprising. if people are told if half the country is being told by media outlets and by their politicians a lie about how the justice system is blown and the government is coming for them, some of them are going to fight back. that s just logical. any national security expert, they will tell you that. so, i think that is the most pernicious thing about this, if you look at the republican party as a whole, and compared it to