Into custody by the government he tried to overthrow. What weve been fighting for all along is accountability and justice. Several Trump Supporters of being here with signs and flags. There are also a lot of people whove been carrying signs that say things like lockup. Were getting Realtime Information from reporters that are in the medium. Former President Donald Trump is standing facing the judge. He says not guilty. Every bad thing they can get him convicted came out of his mouth. This is a very sad day for america. Donald trump has never respected this country. He said this country was trash and garbage. The filth and the decay. And now he wants to lead it again. None of this is normal. This is our life now. After that i think we need to start tonight with a deep breath. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Americas 45th president , Donald John Trump returned to washington, d. C. Today as a criminal defendant. Trump appeared in federal court for his third arraignment since
Him convicted came out of his mouth. This is a very sad day for america. Donald trump has never respected this country. He said this country was trash and garbage. The filth and the decay. And now he wants to lead it again. None of this is normal. This is our life now. After that i think we need to start tonight with a deep breath. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Americas 45th president , Donald John Trump returned to washington, d. C. Today as a criminal defendant. Trump appeared in federal court for his third arraignment since april, this time pleading not guilty to seeming to over the 2020 president ial election. This afternoon, trump traveled from his bedminster, new jersey home to the d. C. Courthouse just blocks from the capitals few blocks from the scene of the january 6th riot. Some protesters gathered inside but, they were over numbered by the media. Jack smith was there and seated just ten feet away from the former president. After trump pleaded not guilty, the j
they instead decided to say look, we re going to go with our nominee. you know what people say. republicans fall in line. can t complain. well republicans did what they did. they fell in line. they did a lot of things frankly that they wanted out of a trump administration. there were a number of things that no one asked for nor anticipated that also came with it. and i think that was a fundamental issue here, and so now we re in a place, collectively, where obviously republicans know that donald trump is not going to be a good general action candidate. democrats know don trump isn t going to be a good general election candidate. and everybody knows that, you know, i think we can agree as americans, insurrection is a good, thing overturning the election is not a good thing. if you lost, you lost. but people didn t do that. there should be consequences. but the problem is the people, i many of the people in the republican base, or with
trump is not going to be a good general action candidate. democrats know don trump isn t going to be a good general election candidate. and everybody knows that, you know, i think we can agree as americans, insurrection is a good, thing overturning the election is not a good thing. if you lost, you lost. but people didn t do that. there should be consequences. but the problem is the people, i many of the people in the republican base, or with president trump and now the leadership of the apparatus, they cannot turn away. they miss the opportunity. tim, for years we have been asking, when is the george bush wing of the party going to reclaim it? if they do not do it now and a guy charged with conspiring to defraud the country gets the nomination, is it fair to say your republican party ain t never coming back? i think it already is not coming back.