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long, iran s look every one of these folks think they can t speak out and they don t speak out. , but it is they re not speaking out, and they re defending of donald trump after each of the indictments, it s the reason why he is gaining in popularity. because the people of the republican base trust are standing up in front of him and saying, not only did donald trump not do anything wrong, he is being attacked by the doj and he was the greatest president ever. so why would you ever expected to pick up anybody else s votes? do you think the fact that trump is not on the debate stage, will they even defend him for that, or will it try to do what ron desantis has done in the last couple of days, which is to say trump is more or less hiding from his competitors here? i have to separate, i believe it is seven people on the debate stage, but you have to separate asa hutchinson and chris christie from the rest. isa hutchinson and chris christie are going to do what is necessary by defendi
all these powerful dictators were, but we re not talking much about it because people don t care about tucker carlson anymore. so, i don t think that this is going to be the thing that overshadows of the debate and get donald trump s special attention, or will make him feel good because tucker will continuously kiss up to him and donald trump loves that. but, what we ll do, that is the arrest on thursday. it is, no matter what we talk about on thursday, all the oxygen is going to be sucked out and we re going to be talking about donald trump s arrest on thursday, yet again, and his bail yet again and his felonies yet again and, yet again, we re going to watch a lot of these candidates for president not have the courage to tell the base the truth and then wonder why donald trump is still in the lead. i want to play for you what republican senator bill cassidy said the sunday on state of the union, listen. i think joe biden needs to be replaced but i think don t think americans will
or now two days away from the first 2024 presidential deba, the latest cnn poll shows former president donald trump holding the top spot yet again with 57% of the potential gop primary electorate, making him the first choice for the nominee. and, over the weekend, trump confirmed on his social media platform truth social that he has no plans to participate in wednesdays debate, citing his lead in recent polling. and today, florida governor and top gop candidate ron desantis called out trump, saying that he, quote, owes it to the people to debate. listen. i think he has a great opportunity to come out and do this, i think he owes it to people, i don t think our voters, even the people appreciate what he did, and i appreciated what he did to, i don t think they re gonna look kindly on somebody that doesn t have to earn it. joining me now is former
this case is all about. have you ever had 19 but you know what, i ve had big trials. and most of the time, a bunch of the guys plead out before you get there. yeah. so you re not gonna see all 19 but to see the giuliani s and the these are the characters that been in the public sphere for about two years now. they ll be walking to jail sometime soon. it s not just as of donald trump is the only bold face, name, and the group. but the one thing that we ve seen is people are complaining about their legal bills. oh, yeah. so, in addition to mark meadows, who we ve sort of wondered what he s doing, is he corroborating in some way, i wonder when these codefendants say, you know, i need help with my legal bills, is that sending a message about, you know, be careful, donald? yeah, there is going to be some separation, at some point, it seems like, between a former president and some his codefendants. and it s going to come sooner than people realize. and that may ver