Donald trumps horrible, no good, very bad day. The one thing that he really, really didnt want to admit. And one person he really, really doesnt want you to hear from tonight. Im laura codes live all right, so trump has finally admitted now what many of you already perhaps new gold might be as favorite color, but hes not made of it. Remember the be asked to post a 454 million bond a week from today in the new york ag civil fraud case. Now you add that to an additional 10 million bucks. Whats called disgorgement. Thats a fancy way of saying that don junior and eric got to pay back. Well, they shouldnt have gotten in the first place. That would then be 464 million bucks. Whos got that kind of money laying around will not donald trump. Apparently, he cant pay the 464 million. Well, that he probably cant pay the amount plus pay the interest he owes on that amount after its all said and done. And what is that . Forest were talking nearly 115,000 a day. Now, all of that is a lot. No matter h
under the very same espionage act that trump is complaining about being charged under. and more than three years after the murder of george floyd under the knee of a minneapolis police officer, the doj finally releases the damning findings of their investigation into the minneapolis pd. but we begin tonight with the rantings of a twice indicted former president who seems to forget that history is well chronicled and easily searched. at his bedminster golf club earlier this week where it s cited in the special counsel s indictment that he on two occasions shared classified documents with people lacking security clearances, donald trump attacked the use of the espionage act under which he s being charged. charming a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917 wasn t meant for this. an act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of
from his office. he claimed it was to get extra work done on nights and weekends. he was not charged with spying or being a traitor, but he did get 5 1/2 years in prison. and there was a case of another nsa contractor, harold martin, who in 2019 pleaded guilty to the same count after a massive amount of classified material was found both in his house and in his car. his lawyer described him as an impulsive horder, does that sound familiar to anyone? he was not charged with spying or being a traitor. but was sentenced to nine years in prison. and there are plenty more examples just like this. but the trump doj s most aggressive prosecutions under the espionage act were for people who took classified information and leaked it to the press, specifically when those leaks were unflattering information about trump or his administration. and especially if it had to do with russia, russia, russia, and the 2016 election.
ones who get probation and a fine. right? the ones who give it back, who are way high up, like the vice president of the united states, former vice president mike pence, who give it back, aren t charged at all. if anything, donald trump is being treated far better than anyone else who has committed this crime. joy, great to be with you. and as heidi said, and as your piece said, yeah, there s a long history of prosecutions under the espionage act for leakers, for people who unlawfully retained information and then didn t give it back when asked. and then the classic spies, the people who actually commit espionage. this, the case with president trump, is under section 93, is very different from the other two ones i described. but the indictment sort of lays out a really strong case. and this is what i have said over the past year, that as doj was building the evidence in this case, whatever those
favorably on any excuse anyone else gives for doing this. donald trump is trying to claim that these documents are not just you can take them, but he owns them. none of that makes sense, and he is the one whose administration prosecuted this the most. yes, absolutely. and in terms of your point about and the lead-up s references to trump s repeated claims that this is his information, he owns this information, they re in his beautiful boxes, that is simply not true. and the real cherry on top in terms of the absurdity of his claims that these belong to him is that he keeps citing the presidential records act. i believe i saw one commentator, i think it was daniel dale of cnn saying citing the presidential records act as a way of trump saying these records belong to me is akin to saying i was allowed to keep going when i was driving along the road because there was a stop sign. it s upside down world, the complete opposite of the truth. the whole point of the