she should be locked up. tell you right now. she should be locked up. she should. that s right, lock them up. you should lock them up. lock up the bidens. lock up hillary. hillary clinton, i didn t say lock her up, but the people don t say lock her up, okay. donald trump s getting a bit desperate ahead of his sentencing making the ludicrous claim that he never said hillary clinton should be locked up. it s on tape, donald. plus, michael cohen s reaction to trump s guilty verdict and the potential of prison time. and the far right continues to embrace authoritarianism with politicians and commentators flocking to el salvador to attend the inauguration of the man who calls himself the world s coolest dictator. it s a big warning sign for the type of government they want to run if trump becomes president again. but we begin tonight with the real meaning of law and order. as the reality has set in that their soon to be official nominee is a convicted felon, republican
trump, but now more than a dozen former intelligence officers, western officials and lawmakers are sounding the alarm over trump weaponizing u.s. surveillance if elected to a second term, telling nbc news that trump could turn america s spy services into weapons of retribution against domestic political opponents. he could also skew intelligence findings in favor of authoritarian leaders. one former national security adviser who served under trump said when it comes to the president s authority over the intelligence agency, the law allows for a hell of a lot of discretion and trump would have a pretty free hand. it s a hand, abeit a tiny one, that he lavishes praise on autocrats and makes jokes about being a dictator for a day, but it could be much longer inthis is a question we have to sadly
like donald trump. if they can do it to him, any rich white powerful man might have to pay for their crimes. the horror. the criminal justice system is supposed to be directed at people like you, not him. even worse, the system now includes something it never did before. brown immigrant judges and black district attorneys and attorneys general. how dare they be deigned to hold donald trump to any legal standard, much less the same standard as michael cohen, after all, michael cohen is not a multimillionaire former president. who is he to be treated the same as trump? how dare this system treat trump the way it treated the since exonerated central park five or how trump bragged he would treat a woman. not grabbing a woman by the you know what. i m talking about hillary clinton, remember, lock her up? i do. although now, apparently, trump remembers it differently. hillary clinton, i didn t say lock her up, but the people
consequences. as all white male juries regularly acquitted them in just minutes, if they were charged at all. men like donald trump and his klan rally attending father fred could do almost anything, not pay taxes, refuse to rent to black people. men of the trump s demographic and wealth routinely did things like burn entire black towns to the ground with impunity which they did literally dozens of times. commit marital rape, which trump s first wife ivana once accused him of doing. this is the kind of freedom and privilege men like trump got used to, and they re outraged, outraged, he s now being subjected to the same criminal justice system that locked up more than any people on earth, disproportionately people of color. a system where when people are killed in streets in routine encounters or in their own homes, more than in any other developed country on earth, how dare that system be used against a rich, privileged white man
he s even calling on his favorite justices on the supreme court to intervene before he s sentenced in july four days before the republican convention. the supreme court has no case meddling in a state prosecution, but the reality is given what we haveen from the conservative men on the court, the idea they would do it anyway doesn t feel much like a fiction. what makes it even more insulting is trump and republicans have recruited some dignitly free black men besides claire whoons are willing to pretend his impunity would ever apply to them. these people think so little of black americans that they believe trump s criminal record is the thing that will endear him to black men, who when they get convicted, do not have a cult army to demand that they not be locked up. they simply lose access to everything. from jobs to the ability to rent an apartment or travel, or in red states, the ability to vote. something donald trump has been assured by the james crow