Racketeering indictment. The Clock Ticking before they turn themselves in to the Fulton County jail next friday, with Pressure Mounting for some or all of trumps 18 codefendants to cooperate, you might think trump would be bending over backwards to ingratiate himself with them, keeping them from freaking out and flipping. Doesnt look like it. Not so much. Take Rudy Giuliani, facing 13 charges in Fulton County. Cnn today reports that giuliani made a hail mary pilgrimage to maralago in april in what is described as a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going inperson a source familiar with the matter told cnn giuliani and his lawyer believed they could explain facetoface why trump needed to assist his former attorney with his ballooning legal bills. According to reporting trump verbally agreed to help with some of giulianis legal bills without committing to any specific amount or timeline. Nbc news has not independen
Inner circle. The memo which was obtained by the New York Times and has not been verified by nbc news, was allegedly sent in early December 2020 by trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, who is one of the coconspirators identified but not charged in the Justice Departments latest indictment, of the former president. In the note, chesebro details the fake elector scheme which falsely claims former Vice President mike pence had the power to block the certification of the states votes on january 6th. All just to buy time. Chesebro admitted that the Supreme Court would likely reject the plan, in a statement to nbc news, the lawyer writes that he was simply providing legal advice to trumps campaign. But that quote whether the campaign relied on that device, upon that advice as he intended would have to remain a question to be resolved in court. Those efforts by donald trump and his lawyers to subvert democracy has, in a small part, led the american varshini to create a task force for American Democ
doug: he s an emu! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. brian: 7:00 on the east coast and cold wednesday february 28th. got a day left. don t think it s going to be march 1st tomorrow. this is fox & friends but we continue. wildfire alert, out of control fires rip across texas and oklahoma. a fire chief handling response efforts joins us in just about a minute. ainsley: another primary down and trump wins big. president biden also with a significant lead in michigan despite 13% of the democrats voting uncommitted. steve: and, do you have this? it s telephone phobia. the top cities where people don t talk on the phone. ainsley: telephone phobia. steve: they let their fingers do the talking on text. ainsley: fear of the phone. fear of talking on the phone. telephone phobia. brian: that could be word of the year. steve: don t ever use it. we will tell you that story and so much more because the second hour of fox & friend
donald trump tried to sacrifice mike pence s life to kill democracy. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, february 21, and we have a lot to get to including former president trump continuing to compare his legal woes to the persecution of alexei navalny. it is beyond grotesque. a guy who has been accused by a judge of rape, a guy who has been accused or been found liable for sexual assault by a jury. massive fraud. massive fraud. hundreds of millions of dollars defrauding creditors. and the thing is, i just got to say really quickly, the thing is, nobody is questioning whether donald trump stole papers from the white house. whether he stole nuclear secret, whether he or had sex with a porn star and paid her off. no one is questioning it. illegally right before an election. nobody is even questioning that. and that guy is comparing himself to alexei navalny. it is grotesque. and he continues to refuse to criticize vladimir putin on top
way. the document describes conversations apparently between the informant and the ceo of burisma, an energy company in ukraine that was trying to take its business to america and then eventually lead to an ipo on the stock exchange here. that person tells the source he has many text messages and recordings that show he was coerced to make such payments to the bidens. that it would cost him $5 million to 1 biden and 5 million to another. that revelation sparking fresh calls for president biden s impeachment from republicans. dana: congressman byron donalds believes this document was hidden for years to protect the bidens. they were protecting them when he left the vice presidency. the last year as vice president. they were protecting hillary clinton, by the way, when she was in the middle of her shenanigans and the essence of a two-tier justice system in america now. dana: anchor shannon bream. byron donalds also said when i asked him about the f.b.i. saying they re con