trump s conduct in on january 6, related to january 6 is fundamentally different to that of someone who just simply showed up to the capital engaged in violence and an obstructed the proceeding in that way, there are many pieces of evidence that they can use to tie donald trump s alleged conspiracy back to documents or to the effort to essentially delay the proceedings to obstruct them in process, all that sort of stuff. so i think there are many arguments let me made to leave those charges in, but it will require really changing the sort of evidence that they think about putting in front of the jury. so bottom line is basically a variant encouraging good day for donald trump. no question. donald trump benefits from this, from this ruling, even if it s just in the context of creating numerous issues for him to challenge the indictment, to challenge the charges before this case ever goes on in the process, delay any criminal we ll trials, which is what he s trying to do. r
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Here in new york. Day 581 of the trump administration, and just tonight a short time ago, in fact, new legal troubles potentially for the president on a new front. Well let the New York Times tell it. Quote, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two Senior Company officials in connection with Michael Cohens Hush Money Payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials of the matter. A State Investigation would settle on how the company accounted for its reimbursements to mr. Cohen for the 130,000 he paid to the actress, stephanie clifford, who has said she had an affair with President Trump, closed quote. Mostly along those same lines a big story today had to do with a long time friend of the president who has apparently turned on him. The publisher of the national
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their leadership, to say people accused of sexual assault. former president trump himself was recently found by a court to be liable for sexual assault in new york city. that s a court finding, not just an accusation like in florida, not just a police investigation like in florida. what this action by florida state republican party today shows is that they have ousted that state republican party chairman over these allegations. what this shows is that the national republican party could do the same thing. they very well would have taken seriously their own institutional responsibility, their own gatekeeping role. if the florida gop party can remove their leader and and the political career of their leader for an allegation of sexual assault, the national republican party could at least try to do the same thing for their lead, leader, who was found by a court to be liable for the same thing. und by a court to bebut the natn
resolves. in michigan, over time, presumably they ll have to sort it out somehow. you can t have two parties that both claim to be the republican party of michigan. you can t have two different people who claim to be the republican party chair in michigan with the other one illegitimate and a ewe super and part of a sinister plot. in florida at least, though, they did sort it out today, this messy gut-churning effort to throw out their party leader for being an accused rapist. it did finally finish today. they did finally throw him out. and that does at least show you that political parties, even today, are capable of policing themselves to exclude bad actors from their leadership, to exclude, say, people accused of sexual assault. former president trump himself was recently found by a court to be liable for a sexual assault in new york state. that s a court finding, not just an accusation like in florida, not just a police investigation
since one of those states is florida. and we ll see how this all resolves.e in michigan, over time, presumably they ll have to sort it out somehow. you can t have two parties that both claim to be the republican party of michigan. you can t have two different people who claim to be the republican party chair in michigan with the other one illegitimate and a usurper and part of a sinister plot. in florida at least, though, they did sort it out today, this messy gut-churning effort to throw out their party leader for being an accused rapist. it did finally finish today. they did finally throw him out. and that does at least show you that political parties, even today, are capable of policing themselves to exclude bad actors from their leadership, to exclude, say, people accused of sexual assault. former president trump himself was recently found by a court to be liable for a sexual assault in new york state. that s a court finding, not just