Agents searched the premises, prosecutors say they found more than 100 additional classified documents, including some in trump s office desk. the shameful raid and breaf oinmyom h was a travesty of justice. reporter: sources tell abc news the judge ordered trump wyla over a number of records, including handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of audio recordings related to what criminal scheme. s alleged - the judge s order doesn t mean trump is guilty or that he will be charged in that case, but rather that prosecutors have made a case that they have preliminary evidence he may have committed a crime. all of this comes amid anticipation trump will be indicted in that entirely difference case brt ghou by manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. payments made to porn star before the 2016 election. a grand jury could hand up charges as early as tomorrow. the former president has called for his supporters to protest.
And it shows people in this case people paying attention or potentially a jury, one thing that is true and doesn t mean trump is guilty. there is a process but it does show he was lying about this here is a little bit of that exchange here s why it s not a lie. it was a confidential settlement so if he acknowledged that, he would be violating the confidential settlement. is it the truth? of course it s not the truth was he supposed to tell the truth? he would be inlation of the agreement. by him doing that by him doing that it was a stormy daniels s rights. it seems like we are drawing blood here because you are having a strong reaction he lied about it and in a confidential settlement you can say no comment or i m not getting into it. he says and the reason why you look at this, he says no he did know about it. he could have said no comment i don t know anything about it which is what he did i would advise my client to do the same thing. that defense is inconsistent.
Now. maggie, how serious is the president s campaign at this point? i mean, he isn t out campaigning. i know it s early, i guess. but he s not out there doing stuff other than playing golf and being in mar-a-lago. it seems like he s holed up there. he announced a digital trading card he s selling for $99 a pop today. that was his big major announce. what is going on with that campaign? there are serious people on that campaign, i want to be clear about that. sue, chris, brian, they are serious people. he has been a serious trump adviser a long time. that doesn t mean trump himself is going to behave seriously. we have seen that over the course of almost eight years, and it continues. but his heart is just not in this, it seems, the way that it was previously. he does not seem, to your point, serious about what you have to do for a campaign. he teased this announcement yesterday, a major announcement. i was getting calls from people
But right now, he s just a guy. and the doj has investigated plenty of candidates and politicians without special counsels. take a democratic senator, bob menendez. he was indicted for bribery allegations. he beat that case in a mistrial. doj dropped it. take a very famous convicted politician, who was actually, as a footnote, pardoned by trump. democrat rod b lo ogoovec. just this year, there was a nebraska congressman convicted of lying while they were investigating illegal campaign contributions. no special counsel. now, take it from a lawyer, lawyers can debate words like extraordinary and public interest. but the history suggests you can investigate politicians, and it s not extraordinary or unusual. that s why it usually happens without special counsels. so, this appointment doesn t mean trump is more likely to be indicted at all.