to documents. he is proud of that in some cases or otherwise. we trusted him with the very lifeblood of the country a couple months earlier. at that level it doesn t make sense. two points i want to make quickly. the republican leadership should come forward. all leadership, all americans should come forward and speak out against this. you can be share if they find initial defense information with joe biden democratic leadership will speak out. bill clinton should offer to be president trump s defense lawyer. and finally you asked with a prosecute him if he weren t running for president? zero chance. jerry nadler said it a couple years ago. we cannot trust the voters. we have to use extraneous measures to go after donald trump. that s what happened. i had the conversation with him suggesting why not walk away from this and be a king maker. don t run for office. his view is he cannot turn his back on the tens of millions of people who count on him. he s a fighter and will stand
i don t know. i cannot speak for anybody else. i have given up predicting what any other senator might do. i can say for myself that i think this is a critical moment in our history as a nation. this is the time to stand up and say we will fight for the rule of law. senator, thank you very much. trump responded to the indictment tonight on true social. this is some of what he said. statement they know they cannot stop because it is election interference at the highest level. there is never been anything like what has happened. i am an innocent man. i am an innocent person. they had the moeller oaks. this is what they do so well. if they would devote their energy to honesty and integrity it would be better for our country. they could do a lot better and do great things. i did nothing wrong. we will fight this just like we have been fighting for seven years. it s wonderful if we can devote are full-time to making america great again. that is exactly what we did.
on the other hand, they are looking at a case in which trump is leading the field by so far that they think something spectacular has to happen to cut into that lead. and frankly, some of them were thinking that perhaps an indictment might do that. on the other hand, this indictment might have the same effect that the manhattan indictment had which was increased trump s support. jason, i concur with what byron is saying. if these republicans chris christie, nikki haley and the list goes on. if they think they will ride this indictment to the white house, then i don t know what cannabis use they are participating in. but it s got to be good stuff. they are writing their own political death warrant if they think they are going to do that. donald trump is stronger than ever. this is going to make him stronger. it is infuriating to people who actually believe that this
2024 campaign. i am retiring from politics. how likely would it have been that they would have gone after him? well, i think the fervor would have dropped .5%. what does that mean? less than one. a really small percent. there is abject hatred for president trump in some of the circles at doj and fbi. he could have basically saved an orphanage from a fire and these guys would say he is lucky and still go after him. the other thing i think affects the whole equation is delaware where all investigations go to die. in delaware you have horrific family wide corruption, foreign corruption scandals involving the biden family. as well as the laptop from. they are slow walking the heck out of that. that s whatever soft deal they want to give hunter to do something against president trump. look how balanced we are.
that witness said while prosecutors in the trump case aggressively focused on his personal comments and the biden one they asked about mechanics. isn t that interesting? trump agreed they are aggressive. biden, it s just mechanics. we have to leave it there. we are out of time. thank you both. that s all the time we have left. laura is next. we will have more tomorrow night. thank you for being with us. i am laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from washington. earlier this evening the news came from the defendant himself donald trump. he told his millions of followers on true social that he would be indicted. and he is also being ordered to report to federal court in miami on tuesday by 3:00 p.m. the criminal indictment and the supporting filings against trump have yet to be officially unsealed, but we have been informed the seven counts in them include the willful retention of national defense