there was every opportunity to be here. melania not said a word. ivanka said, i love you, dad. this is a moment for a man who was on trial for six weeks inside a lower manhattan courthouse to not be seen with his family. eric trump the only one. this would be a moment if they were to appear with him you would think they would be here. inside the courthouse as the verdict was read, eric shook hit head. when donald trump got up he was mostly stone-faced throughout this, looking straight ahead. i felt he looked deflated. he had the signature grimace you see when he is trying to look tough and serious. there was an emptiness behind it, almost an effort to continue to present that face as he has presented it. he shook hands with eric and then he walked out. i do think it s really interesting that knowing a verdict was coming down, that don junior was out of the country. it s interesting that ivanka never showed up to court. i know she s been trying to separate herself from her
president trump will speak and hold a news conference very soon. we ll carry it in its entirety. you recognize the place, trump tower in manhattan. this follows the historic guilty verdict against trump in a new york courtroom yesterday. millions of trump supporters and people who celebrated his loss yesterday will hear from a man who led the country in better times, even with a pandemic. it is a juxtaposition to current president biden s high-priced economy, the border crisis, failing foreign policies, which included the deadly withdrawal from afghanistan that cost 13 american lives and billions of dollars in military assets left on the ground in the hands of the enemy. trump s legal team says the path forward is just beginning. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. we heard from both the president, former president and his defense attorney, todd blanche, that this is far from over. i think it is just a disgrace and we ll keep fighting. we will fight unt
sentence and non-prison sentences virtually the same. and in fact, a prison sentence, maybe he gets a sentence, but they expect, they hoped that it would be stayed immediately and that it would not go into effect. and so this is all i guess short-term political strategy i still think that we should just be aware that there is also a very good possibility that he does not get a prison sentence let s hear right. just based on the facts of this particular case but the fact that so many trump allies are suggesting to me that they see present in his feature, they think that that is going to be just a shot of adrenaline into the republican base. and that s all that is on their minds at this point. look verdict has calmed down. they re going to take what they ve got and run with it and they think that this is going to be the motivating factor we heard one republican hugh hewitt a commentator, say, this is almost like the dobbs decision for democrats. i don t know if that is true int