Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
Not an elected president. That one man in our nation of laws might, just might lawfully sit is Above The Law. That applies to every other single citizen. The Supreme Court, which has some of the lowest Approval Ratings among the American Public in its history, in counts three trump appointees yesterday decided to dignify a legal series contrary to the american experiment that it rhymes with trumps Access Hollywood moment of infamy. Basically arguing when youre president , they let you do it. Agreeing to hear this case at all is the hinged moment. No matter what happens next. It alone opens the door to turning america into a country where one person can commit crimes in this effort to overturn an election he loses, enlist others in that criminal conspiracy and then instead of facing any criminal accountability, just run for office again. And every last vestige the of criminal liability, criminal exposure and accountability. Has to be Crystal Clear today about the logistical the implicat
developments from trump s many legal problems. we begin with developments about the former president s rough time in court over fraud today. closing arguments underway in the case against trump and his two eldest sons in the entire allegedly fraudulent trump organization. you can see trump in atep dance. he s been in more courtrooms than campaign events. he turned towards cameras every time he could. he lashed out at the judge and the attorney general. and he did his set of grievances. there were closing arguments on behalf of donald trump by trump himself got involved briefly. as we reported on this program yesterday here on msnbc, donald trump is a civil defendant here. his request to speak during closing arguments or give some sort of grand closing statement, that was denied by the judge for a simple reason. donald trump s own lawyers basically refsed the rules that would bar personal attacks. you can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with. now the judge
Kari lake, a rising star in the republican party. She responds to some 2024 rumors, too. Aoc in this super cringe moment dancing in front of protesters and mocking latinos. She may have won the gold medal on cringe olympics. Kim kardashian reportedly uses a Diabetes Drug to lose weight. How does he tell america he sucks without telling everyone he sucks. Hes the worst president we have seen in u. S. Lift. Its just before the midterms. Im glad to know political favors in exchange for sacrificing National Security are back in style. Im young enough at 47 to remember when a president by the name of donald trump was impeached for allegedly asking for political favors in exchange for some National Security compromise. Finally, have no fear, folks. Time out. A brave democrat is finally speaking out about joe bidens political favors. Check this out. Its a critical moment for the nation. If the president can get away with this, there is no stopping him from using any of the awesome power of th
on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec