pirro, harold ford jr. shannon bream and gregn ne gutfeld of 5:00 in new york city. and thisy an is the five donald trump going scorched earthscorcd on his guilty verdict and joe y lap oning a victor the left successful lawfare campaign. the president telling millionsfu republicans that they have no right to call the trial riggedo . the american principle that nosb one is above the law was reaffirmed. trump w donald trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. a it was a state case, note a federal case. and it s reckless, it s dangerous and seriousas possible for anyone to say this was rigged just because t they don t like the verdict. likehe big guy then sporting a goofy grin as he ignored questions from reporters. watch this. mr. president, can you tell us, sir, donald trump refersf as to himself as a political prisoner and blames su you directly. what s your response to that, sir r? you do you think that conviction will have an impact on the campaign? thou we d
didn t agreesayingly they di. on the second crime, it was okay. all right. what i m saying here is a judge said if he violated the federal election law judged the federal tax law, or o falsifying business records in the second degree, then if you find anyee, of any of those three, any of those three, that s an element necessar thoy already been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. but the judge saidable doubut t, you don t have to be unanimous. number two, we don t eve bn whih one it was. and number three, and by th all verdicts have to be unanimous. number three, a local d.a., local county judge has no jurisdiction over a felonyso t crime. so they were acting as federalhe prosecutors in a local case.umb that s number one. number two, the jurisdictiononai that non-unanimous the two is the jurisdiction, but thaono t think those are two separate ones, y i think i think you re you re going down a list of prettyd t ones. so what s your third one? so. and the third,herd you mean the thi
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the people who were cheering donald trump s lock her up chanmp st, 2016 is a little ric. i want the judge to give him six months, six months at rikers, and the n the five years, four and a half years of probation that under new york law, six months at this tape. now, judge, notwithstandingall f of the exuberance from someone on the side, there tmeone on who you believe are the two ore three most importantar argument, most powerful arguments that the president s teants,m cn the elements of that appeal on appeal? look the fundamental problem here in the case is where they would appeal. so i m going to keep it real gog . number one, a non-unanimous verdict on an element of the crime. and there is no question that colum qn b and c was an element of the crime that catapulted the dead misdemeanors or resurrected them to felonies. okay lonies.. say that in english. i know what you re saying, but tell people what you re really saying is they