Long day in court. But it seems like it s more than a text. Is that correct? i ll share with you some of the general outlines as our team continues to go through it. They re alleging it was over multiple years, not just one specific year. It alleges an amount of $1. 7 million and it was a scheme that involved members of the organization and not just a one individual, if you will. So some of the general i don t know grand larcony, second degree is a specific charge. I m not sure that would mean something to you. But in in the context of what we re talking about, the charges allege that it is an organizal effort to defraud city, state, and federal taxpayers if you will by not paying taxes as well as this amount that we re talking about in the amount of $1. 7 million. Are we talking about just allen himself or talking about trump or we ll have to look into that specifically. I want to know from terms of what you participated in with the investigators, can you talk to us about what you hav
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
To insurrection. determining what trump knew about the intelligence that suggested there was going to be violence on that day, what he had been briefed on before january 6th, what did he know when he made that bullying call to mike pence? did he know that it was the crowd that was going to come, try to actually physically, you know, capture mike pence and do something really terrible to him? what did he know about that? that is something the prosecutors have to investigate. they would certainly not bring a charge like that without really feeling competent in their evidence that s the kind of charge of course, anything involving the former president, any charges are going to be lambasted by his supporters as being part of a political witchunt, et cetera, et cetera. but this one, i think, is one that they want to be super scrupulous and button down if they re going to bring something like that. my guess is they focused on the others but they re not counting this
Let me i m going to read you the statement. it s short. this is coming out just in the last couple of minutes here from former president trump. he says, and i m quoting, the political witchunt by the radical left democrats with new york now taking over the assignment tunz. it is dividing our country like never before. one mute imagine that if trump still had had access to a twitter account, this is what he would be firing off. instead, it goes to an e-mail list of reporters. this is not at all even a little bit surprising to hear from the former president. he has portrayed this investigation all along as part of what he loves to describe as this witchunt. pointing to cy vance and the new york attorney general as in his view, liberal democrats out to get him. this is all the signalling we got about this investigation. what the news would be would be if donald trump came out and didn t do. that and didn t have that reaction to what we are seeing today. so this is very expected from don