america s most famou presidential statements. today, wow they are going to arrest me. can t believe this i happening. president trump, will you come speak to us the ex president surrenders he is arrested but. fingerprinted. criminally charged with 34 felonies in a manhattan courthouse. these are felony crimes i new york state no matter who you are. prosecutors say he ran a criminal scheme to conceal damaging information, unlawful activity from american voter before the 2016 election former president trump plead not guilty he is frustrated. he is upset. tonight the substance of the case. the people versus donald trump joy reid, already melbourne, alex wagner stephanie bowl all here for msnbc special coverage of the first ever criminal indictment of a forme president of the united states good evening and thank you for being with us here tonight i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york along with lawrence o donnel and joy reid, and nicole wallace
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Packer in it without - any way. after this meeting, the national enquirer guy, a we will call him, agreed t help with trump s campaign saying that he would act as th eyes and ears for the campaign by looking over negative stories about trump an alerting michael cohen befor those stories were published the national enquirer guy also agreed to publish negative stories about trump competitors for the election so that is what prosecutor spelled out today in the statement of facts about thi august 2015 meeting, where the scheme was hatched what they say to the court i the statement of facts is that the scheme paid off first with a story we had all forgotten it paid off first with a trump tower dorm in who was making allegations, apparently, the trump had filed third a chil out of wedlock according to prosecutors today the national enquirer compan paid the storm and $30,000 t keep quiet about tha allegation, without even investigating if it was true it just paid him $30,000
A story we had all forgotten it paid off first with a trump tower dorm in who was making allegations, apparently, the trump had filed third a chil out of wedlock according to prosecutors today the national enquirer compan paid the storm and $30,000 t keep quiet about tha allegation, without even investigating if it was true it just paid him $30,000 regardless of whether it was true, in order to keep his mouth shot ahead of th election interestingly, prosecutors the go out of their way later in the statement to tell the cour that the company eventually di investigate the story, and decided that it wasn t, in fact, true i feel like reading it, it was nice of them to put that i their, in terms of donal trump s reputation but that doesn t change th fact that it is part of this alleged scheme to catch an kill a negative stories abou trump ahead of the election. the company did in fact pa this guy off to