opportunity to prepare the battlefield as they say in intelligence work, meaning he can see how many people he can turn out to protest or not, which gop leaders will back him racial, anti-semitic,lp jfsatana danger to the country. he alsoé@■ posted on truth soci ayman, a photograph of himself holding a baseball bat about to swing it right next to an image of alvin bragg, the d.a. andxd furthermore, he s mocked recently as today this call by some gop members to be peaceful and protest peacefully. he s against that. he s put that out there. we are headedok toward a potentl
play. that s not just a criminal ñi matter. we re talking about democracy at work. congressman, a finl question to you, and it s something that my colleague rachel maddowxd ha pointed out repeatedly, is we ve had a long unfortunate history of politicians who have been in this country. they happen without fanfare. they go to jail, they pay their punishment, sometimes they re acquitted. this is different with donald trump not ju former pres because of the rhetoric, the intimidation, the reaction from fellow republicans. and i just wanted to get your thoughtse1 on why this particul politician and the case surrounding him is reallyt( pushing our system to the brink. well, i think we have to emphasize it sr there are three other ongoing criminal investigations into him. we have seen from donald trump, and i saw itok up close and personal firsthand in the first impeachment, is he does not believe that thee1 law applies to him. he thinks thatxdt( he is outsid
pattern of illegality. and it was accused of juste1 beg a personal checkbook for donald trump. it was eventually as part of a civil matter in this case, it was forced to dissolve and to pay $2 million out to charities. ande1 separately, alvinçó bragg ran he s a politician andxd ran for public office that he has now.3w■ and when he was running he ran and mentioned many times that a key thing would be bringing, you know, justice to donald trump if it was deserved. but he definitely ran on that sort of platform. he even said as a point of pride at times, he mentioned even once that new york attorney geneu>&, he was in the office when the new york attorney general brought more than 100 cases against thei] trump administration. and it s everything from migrants at the border to the m5)frs travel ban. but you know, he s been very clear in saying ie1 know donald trump but i know what he s capable of and that he wanted to bring him to justice.