For the prosecution shows and tells how donald trump operates like a mob boss. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, cnn puts a voice and a face to the key facts that you could read on paper in that case against donald trump. Meet brian butler. Hes also known as employee number five in the criminal indictment from special counsel jack smith. Butler is not a random person who trump can suddenly claim. He doesnt know he knows trump and it has known him for 21 years since he took a job as a seasonal valet at maralago. He has years of pictures and messages with everyone important in the trump orbit. He worked for he worked hundreds of p. Stance feet away from carlos de oliviera, the other maralago employee . He was indicted alongside trump, and they took lightly walks together. They were friends, but their paths now look very different. They oliviera is alleged to have lied to investigators. Meanwhile, butler has cooperated and he is helping pros
Calendar. Trumps new reality from the courtroom to the campaign trail back and forth. A perfect example he keynoted that g. O. P. Dinner in alabama a day after pleading not guilty to four Felony Charges in d. C. That stemmed from alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election results. Here he was railing against that last night. So this ridiculous indictment against us, its not a legal case, its an act of desperation by a failed and disgraced Crooked Joe Biden and radical left thugs to preserve their grip on power. They want to do anything they can to preserve it. In the 24 hours between arraignment in d. C. And that fiery speech last night, special counsel jack smith filing a protective order against trump seeking to prevent him from publicly disclosing details related to the d. C. Case for fear of compromising witnesses after trump posted that ominous warning on social media. Well show you again, he simply said if you go after me, im coming after you. Now, trumps indictm
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porter refuses corporate pac money. and leads the fight to ban congressional stock trading. katie porter. taking on big banks to make housing more affordable. and drug company ceos to stop their price gouging. most politicians just fight each other. while katie porter fights for you. for senate - democrat katie porter. i m katie porter and i approve this message. this morning we re learning new details of what happened behind the scenes at the white house after the special counsel s report that brings president biden s age and memory to the center of the 2024 race, with some republican lawmakers now calling for him to be removed from office under the 25th amendment. and have you seen this man? a manhunt under way as police search for a suspect who killed a deputy and injured another. new details on the traffic stop that turned deadly. plus, we re in las vegas ahead of the big game on sunday. there it is. super bowl, with the 49ers flipping the script and beat the chiefs
joey jackson, he says, do it close to being this is vindication, according talking about alec baldwin being adamant, as you just heard that he did not pull the tree. bigger and just hours from now. a prosecutor is set to drop charges against him for the deadly shooting on the rust movie set coming up the new evidence that came to light plus plus, we are now learning that the mass shooter who killed five workers at a bank in louisville apparently wanted to show how easy it was for a mentally ill person to buy an assault rifle in america. and the legal nightmare is not over from fox news. smartmatic is demanding an even bigger payout. dominions historic $787 million settlement for spreading election lies coming up smart maddox lawyer joins us live but let s begin with president biden. he was getting ready to officially announced he s running for reelection. sources tell cnn his team is planning to release a campaign style video announcement on tuesday. tuesday is the four year