hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. there s brand new reporting that drives home the fact that donald trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to his many, many, many legal problems and when it comes to the indictment and the classified documents investigation turning him from a disgraced twice impeached once indicted ex-president. in that case he has no one to blame but himself. the washington post reports late last year team trump hit a fork in a road, a point in which trump could have chosen an option that very well may have avoided an indictment in the documents case. from that new reporting, quote, one of trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. the attorney, chris kise, wanted to quietly approach justice to see if he could negotiate a settlement that could preclude charges hoping the department would want an exit ramp to avoid prosecuting a former pre
be president, or certainly to run to be president, or certainly to run to be president. in terms of his chances, as far as donald trump is concerned, these sort of thing is boost support for him and we have seen evidence of that. what he tends to do, certainly with indictments we have seen before, he gets ahead of the narrative by announcing that they are coming, uses them in his favour and there is evidence that it works if you look at the polls, certainly with republican voters. they believe in his narrative that all these cases that are flying around him arejust part of all these cases that are flying around him are just part of this political witch hunt. i think the big question is, well it matter to american voters generally speaking? because while he has many republican voters on his side, he does need other americans, voters on his side, he does need otheramericans, independent voters, other americans, independent voters, suburban otheramericans, independent voters, suburban wom
voting, he wants it to happen after that because the department of justice can t prosecute a sitting president and his legal advisers have been pretty much blunt about that fact that they want to kick this into the long grass and hope that it happens afterwards. as you know, there are lots of cases that are flying around donald trump. there is potentially an imminent indictment coming a third one, related to january six. it is shaping to be pretty much a busy legal calendar for donald trump next year. legal calendar for donald trump next ear. ., , ., , ., year. you brought us some of the resonse year. you brought us some of the response there, year. you brought us some of the response there, but year. you brought us some of the response there, but i year. you brought us some of the response there, but i wonder- year. you brought us some of the| response there, but i wonder what the political commentators there are saying about how this plays into the election cycle. what impact,
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election campaign season. they puts it at the tail end of the campaign process and it is guaranteed, certainly right now, that donald trump is properly going to be the nominee. he is the clearfrontrunner for the nomination and just to remind people what this trial is about, he mentioned the classified documents and he faces counts of allegedly will holding classified documents relating to national security. he is charged alongside his aid with making false statements and conspiring to obstructjustice. he has pleaded not guilty to all the charges. just to give you his reaction, he says that the schedule is a setback for the department of justice, the ones who have brought the case forward. he says the delay gives extensive time to fight what he describes as an empty hoax. because donald trump wants the delay until after the presidential election. this trial would happen six months before americans start