The Show Notes: Arrest, Indictment, and Rally
Welcome! Donald Trump will be arraigned in New York today.
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The Trump Arraignment
This is the biggest story of the day. But we need some perspective. Republicans are accusing Democrats of weaponizing the rule of law against Republicans, but the Democrats have been doing this for some time. Travis County, Texas started it. That would be Austin, TX. If you will recall, around 2005, Democrats there indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, whose conviction was thrown out on appeal. The same prosecutors indicted former Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose case was tossed. In Virginia, the same federal prosecutor now investigating Donald Trump, named Jack Smith, indicted Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, whose case was tossed by the Supreme Court.
In each of these cases, Democrats used campaign, campaign-finance, and related laws to prosecute Republicans. Each time, the cases were thrown out.
Here, now, Alvin Bragg is going where no one has been brave enough to go. He seeks to charge Trump with 34 counts of corporate paperwork crimes by tying them to a federal campaign finance violation that Trump has not been prosecuted for by anyone. In essence, Alvin Bragg has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed a crime no federal prosecutor has charged him with and must convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump paid Stormy Daniels via his corporation in violation of campaign finance laws so Christian evangelicals would not turn on the man who they already knew was on video bragging about grabbing women by their…well…you know. Trump’s defense is easy — voters already knew his character and affairs. But he had a prenup with his wife and he’d have to shell out millions more to her if Stormy Daniels came forward.
Trump should take the Jack Smith investigation and the Georgia investigation seriously. This case should never have been brought and not just fundamentally undermines the rule of law and further weaponizes prosecutions, but will set precedents from which we will not walk away. Donald Trump might be the first President or former president to be indicted. He will now most assuredly not be the last. Republican state prosecutors will be emboldened to make names for themselves in the same way Alvin Bragg has.
This is a very bad decision by a county prosecutor that will impact the course of politics and prosecutions nationally.
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