indictment of donald trump on thursday donald trump became the first former commander in chief in history to face a criminal indictment. that s after a grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president as part of manhattan district attorney s alvin bragg s investigation into a hush money payment made into adult film star stormy daniels back in 2016 now that indictment is currently sealed, and that means we and a whole lot of people do not know the specific charges or charge that have been levied against donald trump we do know bragg has been focused on a felony charge of falsifying business records which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years donald trump denies any wrongdoing, denies having an affair with stormy daniels, and he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law that trial has not yet occurred. bragg s investigation is one of many against the ex-president. back in 2018 cohen, trump s former lawyer and fixer, was ntenced t
And interfere with the process again, the vice president the former vice president of the united states michael pence saying, oh, well, it s just really a campaign finance issue so it s outrageous wait a minute, in watergate people wept to prison for campaign finance violations, and we don t even know what the charges are going to be, so how can he dismiss this as trivial and then you have mr. desantis saying even though the constitution mandates a governor of the state that a fugitive is in who s wanted in another state and mandate that governor to turn the fugitive over, desantis is not going to even obey the constitution so why is everyone who s defending trump want to become a lawbreaker here or dismiss the seriousness of the process there s also an undermining of it. there s been an undermining of alvin bragg. there have been becomments donald trump himself have made
Get him. he believes he s being attacked and he believes the democrats in this case he says are the ones trying to get to his supporters, he s just standing in the way. if you talk to his supporters down here, ali, donald trump can do no wrong, and they ll be lined up as he goes past them on tuesday, thousands of them will likely be lined up on the bridge that connects west palm beach to palm beach and he ll likely make some sort of show whether a wave or something more than that as he moves past them vaughn is sticking with me. we re going to bring in charles coleman, a former brooklyn prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. thanks to all of you for being here i want to go back to after donald trump did put this post out he was going to be arrested this past tuesday and that didn t come to pass, that all sorts of things had happened there were pictures of donald trump that he reposted on truth social and took down of him with a baseball bat and alvin bragg,
Bubble that surrounds the maga folks and blocks facts from getting in and trump is creating that reality once again. so i am looking throughout i ve had a stack of papers in my hand all night it s tweets and comments from republican elected and democrats. i saw one from don bacon of nebraska he says i trust our legal system, there are checks and balances of juries, judges and appeals. we ll all see if this is a partisan prosecution or not. straightforward, perfectly good. let s let the system figure this out. there are no more of those in here, rick every single one of them is about george soros radical backed socialist vendetta driven alvin bragg. this is the entire construct you see over and over again in the treats and other republicans you do get all the tropes let s be blunt about what it
And says if he s threatening alvin bragg or the district attorney or other witnesses. of course the judge will control the process. the judge will control the dignity and the fairness of the courtroom, and no judge should permit any defend want to become threatening, to demean the process, to demean the court, to demean the prosecutor. not going to happen and i understand this judge is not going to let it happen no one should be allowed to threaten the prosecutor and to threaten violence. he s threatened death and destruction. do you have some sense that some form of accountability will finally meet up with donald trump, because he has managed