politician, who somehow made i into the white house was zer political experience only to b disgraced as the first president to be impeached twic while in office, he s now th first current or forme president of the united states to be criminally indicted in history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud. those are classified a misdemeanors the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge seven from the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg investigation of the forme presidents role in the hus money payment made to th former adult film star storm daniels, with whom he allegedl had an affair. donald trump denies a resume affair and her new interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday. daniel said she s not afraid she even hopes to be called to testify against trump. trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed unti tuesday afternoon when h
Come to trump s defense. including former attorne general bill barr, who ech some of trump s talking points when asked to comment about th indictment at the national review ideas summit yesterday. judging from the news reports it s you know, it s th archetype will abuse of th prosecutorial function to engage in a political hijab it s a disgrace if it turns ou to be what we think it is. politically, it s gonna be damaging i think to th republican party, simply because, i think it s a no los situation for the democrats. legally i think it s, from wha i understand, it s patheticall weak case. the tone, the town, or th substance of much of trump s world response to hi indictment seems focused o undermining the justice system in order to undercut the
Justice system by electe republicans have probably been written for weeks. these are things that they wer prepared to release. as donald trump s poll numbers within the republican primar have been steady or gone up at least over 10% in one of those polls. you have these members o congress who are in safe districts, who have nothing to lose by supporting only today they ve bee supporting donald trump. do you look at the house o representatives for example. let s say two to 3% of those seats are ever in play now it been so gerrymandered. when you support donald trum in your district you re doin just fine you re speaking to your audience. i was struck by bill barr just now he s speaking at the national review so in essenc he speaking to his audit, a bi group of conservatives, an he s defending donald trump. because that s the thing you d right now, still in th republican party probably to their peril. you look at the senate, it becomes a little different they re little more careful,