he knows that judge kaplan has no problem speaking back to him or to his lawyers, not that judge kaplan is one sided or the other, but he is going to ensure that there is a fair trial, that these jurors are not intimidated, that they get a chance to hear the evidence. i don t think that there is any reason to doubt that trump is concerned about that. will he show up? he might make a cameo appearance, but given that, miss carroll s trial team has already said that they need some help in controlling mr. trump, so it won t be an upper, like in the a. g. s case. my sense is that if he shows up, it will be in and out, and he s not going to get away with what he did in the a. g.case. so, let s talk about accountability though when it comes to this. donald trump continues to defame e. jean carroll, continues to claim he does not know who she is, and he says stuff like, i have absolutely no idea who this woman is, but i am going to go to it, that being the trial, and i am going to explain to
in fact, most defendants lose custody and have their bill revoked, if they act the way that donald trump has acted. what we see, i believe, we ve been so frustrated and impatient that justice whatever comfortable trump, that in the last year of this tapestry of accountability, that s been stitched together from the criminal case to the civil case, i think creates this kind of security blanket for our rule of law and for our democracy. if we can keep the faith in our rule of law and do what we have done since doctors november 2016, which is mobilize, organize and show their voting, not violence, what they would use, that we can restore justice in this country. that s how we do it.
hypocrisy of the gop is alive and well in d. c.. i don t know, how did you navigate that particular hearing, because you re a lawyer, a member of congress, so you know what facts, evidence and the law actually work? and i am a representative. the first thing i did was take a step back and think, what did the people i represent care about? it s certainly not republicans acting as donald trump s lawyer, the largest law firm in washington d. c. working for just one client. they want breathing room and their finances. they want their health care costs come down. they want their kids to be safe it in school from gun violence. and these guys, they are just an echo for donald trump. there s nothing that they do that works to benefit anyone who is in need. then i think about donald trump and listen to the grievances and what you played in the opening, it s just me, me, me. i think what president biden has to do is make it clear as we go through the next ten months into november, that this el
that he has defamed her after that verdict came in earlier. i wanted to talk about a statistic that i found, because i know you also traffic in evidence and facts as i do, as a trial lawyer. nbc news analyzed more than 40 trumpison repulsion to social and found that he often uses his platform as a megaphone to attack people and agencies involved in his numerous legal cases. you and i have practiced law for a long time, would you agree that there has been a total, complete elimination of norms when it comes to legal norms when it s come to not only how a party like donald trump can conduct himself, either in a criminal or civil case, and his lawyers ability to conduct themselves in those types of cases? well, there has been an anti-democratic tendency, and i don t mean that in terms of democrats and republicans, who are just anti-democratic. in terms of the me india being used to try and subvert democracy. so yes, i think these are
them that they are a party that rather rule than govern, or for violence rather than voting when it comes to any issue that matters like the border, or crime, or health care costs, they don t want the fix, they want the fiction. if we re a party that want to get things done, i feel good about where this is going. it s wanted to use the word, congressman, fiction, because we re talking about the alternative facts. donald trump alternative facts, the alternative facts of house republicans, things actually not doing anything good for americans at large. we are on the cusp of november 2024. it sounds like it s far away, but it s really not, as you and i both know. how does it work then, do you think, that the judicial system could actually be a stopgap to the demise of democracy before we actually look at things at the ballot box? first, we can t control the pace of the judicial system.