greetings everyone, you are watching symone. former president donald trum indicted by a grand jury o tuesday. he will be formally charged an fingerprinted. it s the first in american history. we are digging into why there a debate over whether president, former current should be hel to the same legal standards as you and i. and in true trump fashion, h is lashing out district attorney alvin brag and his staff, even the judg in the case. targets of attacks on social media and we re talking to reverend al sharpton, a man wh knows all about donald trump s history in new york. last republicans, while they are falling in line. the former vice president elec the leaders, even people trump could be riding against in the 2020 primary all defending donald, trum right now. before we even know the charge or the evidence. i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. no one is above the law. it is not just a slogan, it an american principle that i supposed to guide the ju
it s march 31, 2023. we are reporting on the first filing in the prosecution of former president donald trump. you may not have seen this yet it s new it s formalized by a court document that lists this case for the first time, the people of the state of new york versus donald j. trump, defendant what you see on your screen we have highlighted the key word there is actually a first for all of mr. trump s legal scuffles and civil cases, which end in payments, not prison, even if you lose this is the first time he has been on the other side of the government the people of the state of new york versus this criminal defendant. we have this new order from a judge. it marks the formal opening of this case file it notes the indictment which is called a true bill you see that there it was returned by the grand jury think of the words true bill as equivalent legally to indictment or charges under that piece of legal terminology or jargon, we learn there is a true bill, there are
donald trump, now convicted felon, stands across these three criminal enterprises . we made this based on our legal analysis and reported it for the first time last night but the underlying facts are known but here they are together. the leaders have been convicted of serious crimes across quite a long range of time. trump s new convection is still sinking in across the nation and the process will play out. he is awaiting sentencing. it completes this picture of criminality that surrounds him because of the people he picked and whom he often stood with and they stood by him as long as they divide police and law enforcement and defended him, they stay together. this band of, quite literal, convicted felons. criminals. while last week was understandably first focused on the conviction of one man, in order to see the broad reality you have to see how his conviction did cap off these years of crimes by many people across different enterprises. only now is he joining those other a
You. this rule boggles th imagination. was the role adopted t actually shield president nixon? yes, there was a feelin that nixon was going to go under in 73 and this would be way to protect nixon s power but alas, watergate did happen and many of the spiro agnew ha to resign. the vice president, over bribery charges. could ve gone to jail but he didn t but then all of the presidents methadone iksan including attorney general joh mitchell ended up doing jail time the president was seen a something unique and leave i to protect we did not have the weir spectacle of former u.s. president or a sitting one suddenly indicted and put in jail that is why trump is such strange aberration going o right now. but in most of american history, presidents either came out o the u.s. military meaning yo learned a code of honor.
Famously pardoned roger ston and others but once you re out of office, you honestly, honestly simon are simply a citizen you have to have secret service, yes you have a nice pension bu you are an american citizen an you are not above our judicial system that s where trump misread things, he really is a student of nixon s line from the frost nixon debate were nixon s out of a presiden does it, it must be legal bu trump never said - nixon never said it if an ex president is indicted. it s different, trump s a ma without that kind of privilege that we would like to clai executive privilege and he has none he has nine doug brinkley, you always just make it so plain and break all of the things down i am grateful for your voice i this moment. appreciate your time oh, thank you and thank you out there for watching symone on thi