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
Your brother has landed in the dark lands. they re under bowser s control. [ screaming ] hang on, luigi. [ ominous music playing ] [ screaming ] yes! fire! [ chuckling ] . we re back with our late night early morning coverage of donald trump s indictment. back with me vaughn hilliard, charles coleman, civil rights attorney, and cynthia oxny, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. welcome back to all of you vaughn, donald trump we don t know if he s gone to sleep tonight but he s been up for a long time. he s been posting to his own platform, truth social what s going on there?
The same time there s an american electorate, a great share of it that is following donald trump to wherever the end of this is but because you re out there, you and i sometimes meet together where we re out in the field, but you re out there all the time, and you re talkative to folks who feel this, who feel the retribution may be necessary. is there where does this go where does this indictment of donald trump go in terms of their support for donald trump will any of them sit there and say maybe the guy committed crimes, or are they going to say two fold. we saw the general elections in arizona, pennsylvania. the general election folks rejected it. qanon is not some far, far just fringe of a few people here. when you talk to folks they may not realize they re qanon believers but they believe elements of it they believe there is a child sex trafficking ring right, they believe their
Criticism you want about the stormy daniels case, and i ve had no short nl, but the truth of the matter is it s the beginning about cheating in the election, it s part of the umbrella of cheating in the election, zelenskyy cheating to win an election, corrupting the justice department to take care of his friends, january 6th pressuring pence it s all part of that. and he s gotten away with it, and the way he s gotten away with it is by bullying people and by getting other people to do his bidding, and that is what is scary is he ll continue to bully until some kind of lone actor goes after these other innocent people who are just trying to uphold the rule of law. i think it s a very scary time for our country. at the same time, if we don t do it, if we don t hold them accountable, we re just flushing our democracy down the toilet. let s talk about that for a second, rick there are people who are sad, you know, who don t like donald trump but think he should be held to account or sad
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