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it s ultimate speed for ultimate business. don t miss out on our fastest speed plans yet! switch to comcast business and get started for $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. call today! welcome back everyone to the weekend. election interference was at the heart of the new york criminal case against donald trump. in closing arguments, the prosecutor put it like this. quote, this scheme cooked up by these men at this time could very well be what got president trump elected. this was overt election fraud, act and furtherance of the conspiracy to promote mr. trump s election by unlawful means. more simply, those crimes contributed to trump being electedment. wekaty fang is with us and also partner of the alliance law group. i love the fact that you are an attorney. you don t just play one on tv. people would refer to this as hush money case. i would argue that s to differentiate it from all the other election interference. there is so many. we h
work. you didn t see him making the statements directly to stormy daniels lawyer. he used michael cohen, used david pecker. he uses people. here he uses surrogates. you see that from the weaponization in the house judiciary. you see what happens during the trial when he brings red tie brigade. he is saying what he is saying. it will hurt him. part of me is like go ahead, say it, you are digging a hole. on one hand you have this rhetorical framework that donald trump and allies are working with as you said to shift the prism of this up coming election. at the same time you have techno crats doing the work, what we saw from the supreme court allowing for racial gerrymandering, the fact that if they can t win with the current rules then they will, in tandem with this rhetoric, work on changing the rules. a couple things.
the first is those do work in tandem because what you have is donald trump saying i will do anything which is like outrageous out to here. then you have the techno crats who say we will only go this far. so he sets outer bounds of outrageousness and they set a bounds that would have been outrageous unto itself but seems quite within the bounds of normal given that they re not, you know, insurrection. on the trump sentencing i want to add one thing. i think the judge will be smart and i think he will ignore the attacks. he is not going to say because you attacked the judge, i am going to increase your sentence. i think this is where contempt citations will come back into play and attacks on the judicial system as a whole. the judge is there to uphold rule of law and see whether he is remorseful of his cop duct. he will take the things donald trump that violated gag orders,
street. but also financiers that you ve spoken with. what s interesting is that people are coming out of the park and working with financiers what do you mean? bankers working with the protesters on ideas on how to better regulate ideas. that s where the real impact is going to be. also in your article, you say governments worldwide are basically staffed with exfinanciers. you use the word government sacks or were quoting. still, at this two-monthç anniversary, what should they be doing? should they change the focus and move toward government? in europe, you have all these techno crats. at the bottom line, you need politicians running countries that have public backing and that s what s happening here. i think that s what is about.