Former President Donald Trump has reacted to the Manhattan grand jury voting in
favor of indicting him in connection to the hush money payments paid to
Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 election.
He is not happy as you can imagine.
And I'm sure this is the first of many statements that he'll have in regard
to this case.
He writes that, the Democrats have lied, cheated, and
stolen in their obsession with the trying to get Trump.
But now they've done the unthinkable indicting a completely innocent person in
the act of blatant election interference.
What?
Okay, well, by the way, he's facing other criminal investigations having
to do with his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Maybe he has the investigations and the trials mixed up.
But the one that we're talking about now and the one where the grand jury voted to
indict him has to do with the hush money payments, not the 2020 election.
Never before in our nation's history, writes Trump, has this been done.
True.
He's right about that.
The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades,
including spying on my campaign but
weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent who just so
happens to be a president of the United States, and by far the leading
Republican candidate for president has never happened before, ever.
And then he has a statement in regard to the district attorney,
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, he writes, who was hand picked and
funded by George Soros is a disgrace rather than stopping the unprecedented
crime wave taking over New York City, he's doing Joe Biden's dirty work,
ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on.
This is how Bragg spends his time.
So a lot of distraction, a lot of deflection,
a lot of denial in regard to his part in the hush money payments and
the fraudulent documents that were created in order to provide cover for
those hush money payments.
>> Yeah, so, look, he's just getting started.
So he hasn't threatened violence yet, which is a bit shocking.
So he's going to build up to it, right?
>> You're right.
So Steve Bannon has already called on Trump supporters to peacefully protest.
He said that during his show immediately after the indictment news broke.
So, hopefully, look, people have the right to protest, I have no problem with that.
But the key word is, peaceful.
>> Yeah, and look, he put peaceful in there so, so far fine.
I mean, I didn't see the video and I hope he didn't go wink, right?
[LAUGH].
And I hope that people don't misinterpret that, but
there's nothing wrong with peaceful protests.
You wanna protest that Trump's getting arrested?
You think he should be above the law and he should be able to violate campaign
financials, who cares if you lie to the government, how you keep your books?
Okay, that's a questionable position.
But, okay, go ahead and protest.
Let the rich break the law.
Let the powerful break the law.
Have at it horses as long as you keep it peaceful.
>> Man. >> What happened?
>> This paints a picture.
So the New York Times keeps updating the story with reactions and
more importantly what those close to Trump are saying.
So interestingly enough over recent weeks, Trump has been at Mar-a-Lago,
keeping his typical schedule, dining with guests, playing golf.
In fact, in recent days,
it was reported that he was in an incredibly good mood because he was
under the assumption that Alvin Bragg's case against him had fallen apart.
Remember he thought he was gonna get arrested two weeks ago.
>> Yeah, I'm just gonna interject for a second.
>> Go ahead. >> Because everybody keeps saying,
I think Trump wants to get arrested because he thinks it's gonna help his
chances in the primary.
No, he doesn't.
He hates the thought of being arrested and he thinks it's a huge embarrassment.
He thinks that New York society will mock him.
He's talked about those fears openly in the past.
And so he wanted to be among the elites and stuff and he thought, well,
I'm president now, so I'm finally made it into the club, right?
And here they are and they're saying, no, you're not in the club.
We're gonna treat you like a regular schmo and
actually uphold the law against you, which they don't often do.
That's the one thing that right wingers are a little bit right about, right?
When it comes to other establishment politicians.
So, no, he was ecstatic the other day when he really thought that
the case was off and he bragged, [LAUGH], Bragg, he got scared.
Now it turns out back to defense.
>> Okay, so, his aides though those very close to him, who apparently aren't really
good friends of Trump's because they were leaking this to the New York Times
are saying that the good mood that he had been in in recent days was just a front.
It was a mask that he put on because internally he was just racked with
anxiety and fear that he would eventually be prosecuted for this.
He was also trying to tamp down his own behavior after he posted on his
social media site, a news article with an image of Bragg on one side and
an image of Trump holding a baseball bat on the other side.
So apparently after he did that, he's like, yeah,
maybe I should calm down a little bit.
But I mean, the crime was already committed home.
>> Remember that's a new crime.
That's why.
He's such a coward.
It's funny because we're the fairest show in America.
We tell you all the time.
The one upside of Trump is, well, he's got a couple of upsides.
One is he said, f you to the establishment, I enjoy that.
He then he took it in an insane direction.
I did not enjoy that.
But he also showed you how much the other Republican politicians are cowards.
He bullied them and they all were, like, yeah, do whatever you want.
And you showed how pathetic they were.
But don't forget he himself is a coward.
The idea of going broke or going to jail are his worst nightmares.
And every internal report from every Trump insider, not just on this issue
always says about how scared he is and how worried he is and how stressed he is.
>> No, I retract what I said previously in an earlier video that we
did on this story.
I lied.
This is making my life better.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Every update makes my life
incrementally better.
Let me read you this, okay?
Maggie Haberman reporting in the New York Times.
A large group of former Trump organization employees is sending texts quietly
cheering the latest developments.
A reminder of how many people have felt burned in various ways by Trump over
the years.
How many times did we talk about the day when all the people Trump
turned his back on would get together and screw him over?
Or at least celebrate something terrible happening to him.
He shift so many of his allies, so many of his friends, so many people who were so
incredibly loyal to him over his weird perceived disloyalty.
>> Yeah, and look, I know if you're in MAGA world, which is honestly
93% of the Republican Party, you think everything about Trump is a lie.
He's an angel.
He's never done anything wrong.
He sometimes says outrageous things, you'll concede, right?
But overall, he's an angel and all of his current advisers,
former advisor, current allies and
former administration officials, every single one of them is a liar.
Even though they're all huge conservatives, massive right wingers for
the last 40, 50, 60 years, but they're all liars, right?
But for any of you who hasn't lost their mind and all objectivity,
they're not all lying brothers, okay?
They're telling you, everybody who actually deals with Trump in person,
which you haven't, if you're a MAGA, you've only seen him on TV or
on tweets and posts, etc, right?
Every person that goes in a room with him and interacts with him behind the scenes
goes, whoa, that guy is crazy and dangerous and not very bright at all.
Does not know one thing from another.
Just keeps giving us nonsensical orders.
Keeps telling us to break the law and then throws us under a bus.
Everyone who's had an interaction with him is celebrating like crazy today except for
the people who think this will help him win the election.
In which case they're super scared of what he's gonna do next.
And by the way, he's run out of people.
The only people he can now bring in is maybe literal former mobsters to run
the government.
Because there's no one left loyal to him because he's not loyal to anyone else.
No matter how much you do for him,
he will try to bury you at the slightest infraction.
He has no brakes in his car.
So what's gonna happen next?
Only God knows.
But I do know today is a good day, not if you hate Trump,
but if you actually love the rule of law and believe we should be a democracy.
>> Absolutory.