thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat are ari melber starts roelgt now on this today. our top story a beat special report about trump s criminal enterprises, how we got here and why it matters. to put it simply there s a key link between this new conviction of trump, the person, and the legal accountability for trump s organizations, which have long been found criminal in our legal system. so let s begin with these two realities. first last week s news and then the news that has dogged trump s organizations for years. there are guilty verdicts. we are looking at count one guilty, count two guilty. count three guilty. we re hearing guilty on one through five. starting on count six. count six guilty. count seven guilty. count eight guilty. count 27 guilty, count 34, guilty. the unanimous jury verdict unanimous on all counts. that is trump s guilt. then there s his top aides across many ye
falsely implies it would be unlawful for him to take this flag down. quote, my wife and i own our home jointly. there were no additional steps i could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly, he writes. that is false, and this matters that he is making these kind of public claims in writing that are false. he said he had no other option, no additional step he could take, but the step would be alito taking down the flag. legally one spouse s shared property interest doesn t motautomatically override the others on all property matters. putting a flag up doesn t trump the other person taking it down. at best it s a kind of draw, but this is not a legal property case. alito s references read more like a distraction, spin, possibly less than the whole truth. his own letter still admits he saw the flag and st. stayed up that way. so even on his own weird defense he s still part of the flag continuing to fly that way over his home. he admits that.