hi, the nicolle. i am ari melber. we begin in a sense with how we left off last night, and how it fits with brand-new developments today. donald trump, now convicted felon, stands atop these three criminal enterprises, which we ve been reporting out for you. we made this based on legal analysis and reporting for the first time last night. the underlying facts are known, but here they are together. the leaders have been convicted of serious crimes across quite a long range of time. trump s new conviction is still sinking in across the nation, and the process will play out. he s awaiting sentencing. it completes this picture criminality that surrounds him because of the people he picked and who he often stood with and they stood by him as long as they defied police and law enforcement defended him, they stayed together, this band of quite literal convicted felons, criminals. while last week was understandably first focused on the conviction of one man, in order to see the bro
the new york times story reports people in the room, federal society members like don mcgahn, who also testified about various aspects of this. so, that s a lie. how people hear about this matters. do people, as we go from this inflection point of conviction on to a debate in a couple of weeks and trump sentencing and a lot of other stuff this is what the summer is going to be partly like. do people hear these legal facts and know trump s past efforts to abuse power, the recent documented history? or do they hear him just selling all this as the new response and, sort of, think, well, that s true or that s kind of true or they see headlines about payback in the new york times and think, here we go again, both sides? maga curious voters might want to hear it that way or minimize it. and not everyone who might ever vote red, republican, or trump, is signed on to all the conspiracy theories. a lot of people, believe it or not, are still moved by facts. that s precisely why donald tr