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remains under seal but according to two sources familiar with the matter, trum is facing around 30 charges as a related to documents rob security in and around the men hat and court house who is bee beefed ever since trump bega making intimidating post o truth social directed at the manhattan district attorney office for weeks now, the twice impeached ex president has bee vigorously attacking alvin bragg online also attacking virtually the entire american justice system as the grand jury an prosecutors in manhattan get closer to indicting him. and in his first official 2024 campaign rally in waco, texas, last saturday night. his supporters held up posters that said witch hunt as he delivered a speech tha contains many baseless accusations that the prosecutors currentl investigating him ar politically motivated to tak him down given though he has been s previously occupied with the idea of being indicted, th news on thursday coming that h was actually going to be indict ....
They do this, al authoritarians do this befor it s a kind of insurancece policy and so they need to see thes narratives so the public wil be primed so they believe that something actually happens everything is coming to a head now. let s talk about what thi does, what effect it has because it sounds like the sam old noise. if you are inclined to believe that it s just trump and republican noise about the stuff, then you may no understand the distinction and i do think back to 2020, when months before any ballots were cast, donald trump wa giving interviews to people, including chris wallace. who said, will you accept th results of the election? months before a single ballo have been cast and he says, we will see how i goes he was setting the table for what was to come after the election, and ultimately ....
This one and the other cases that donald trump may face polarize and already polarized country further. how do you think about that? it is a danger. it s something i am worrie about. but that doesn t mean i can sa the legal system should stop working. and so it is incumbent o everybody who wants the lega system to continue working t defend it and explain it, an so on. so the source of polarizatio in this case isn t the legal case the source polarization is the defenders of trump, or trumpism some of whom who have surprise me actually. but the defenders who have instead of saying let s se what happens, let s see how th case plays out let s actually find out what the nature of the case is, because we don t really know yet. instead of saying that, they have attacked the law, the have attacked the prosecutor they have talked about georg soros funding elections in new york, and that is the real ....
Appearance the news of the indictment i actually given its 202 presidential campaign a bi fund raising bump to the tun of over $5 million in the firs 48 hours since the public foun out about the grand jury s decision but that may just be temporary solace for trump and his campaign, because this may b just the beginning of his lega struggles, as a multiple investigations into his conduc continue and of trump s own legal history is any indication, h will use any and all means a his disposal to try to dismiss or at least delay this cas from going forward as much a possible joining me now is nbc news national politics reporter john allen, he s also th coauthor of the book lucky, ho joe biden barely won the presidency jonathan, good to see you again, my friend. i have to ask you about th politics of this donald trump is making a lot o money. a lot of fundraising off of hi indictment but, politically, what i expected to happen since tha indictment has come down i think it is a short ter ....
In turkey, in many other place that have very stron democracies only recently. when donald trump started saying, i am your retribution. loose alina was known to say, am your avenger. donald trump said, i am your justice. he used to say, i alone can fi this so this is a part of that idea i get that you all hav grievances and beef. i am your answer people feel resentment for different reasons, they feel they didn t get what the thought they deserved in their lives, or they don t like th way america is going, or the way they think it s going. or the way they imagine it s going. and he offers an answer. i will make you feel better, you ll get revenge, i will mak up for whatever it is you ve lost and whenever you have a period of very rapid change, people d lose things. and ways of life, or thing that people used to do on th same as they used to be. ....