ordinary americans we just wrote in history good morning, waking up a convicted felon just five months before voters will have to decide whether to send him back to the oval office. donald trump has spent the last four years telling his supporters the 2020 election was stolen from him. and he has spent the last seven weeks telling them the trial was a political sham. here s what he said yesterday. the real verdict is going to be november 5, by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. this was done by the biden administration. in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent? and i think it s just a disgrace and we ll keep fighting. we ll fight til the end and we ll win president biden s campaign agreeing with trump on that very first part of what he said, writing this in a statement right after the verdict, quote there is still only one way to keep donald trump out of the oval office at the ballot box, convicted fe
trump has admitted to. exactly. although he s still i think saying there was no quid pro quo. so it s like i don t see how that s going to be sustainable. so, there is an extortion theory. there is a bribery theory. there is a campaign finance theory. those are all criminal violations. so, the issue of sort of whether people who are involved in this scheme need criminal lawyers, i ve been a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. i certainly would get some legal advice. my last question is if the allegation that there was bribery, if what is known from the transcript released by the white house is that donald trump said i need a favor, though. and if that transcript caused so much alarm that a lawyer in the white house counsel s office locked it down, and a whistle-blower went to the cia lawyer and she went over and talked to the white house lawyer. what explains the fact that when they called doj they said, eh, nothing here? i think that is the $60,000