>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND WELL
IN TO TUCKER CARLSON.
DONALD TRUMP WAS ARRAIGNED IN A
MANHATTAN COURT TODAY.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS BACK IN
FLORIDA AND SCHEDULED TO SPEAK
IN JUST A MOMENT FROM
MAR-A-LAGO.
THIS FEELS SIGNIFICANT SO WE
WILL TAKE YOU TO HIS REMARKS AS
THEY BEGIN.
IT’S WORTH UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT
IS WE’VE JUST SEEN.
OFTEN THE CLEAREST PERSPECTIVES
COME ON OUR COUNTRY COME FROM
OUTSIDE ITS BORDERS.
HERE IS SALVADOR’S PRESIDENT.
THINK WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT FORMER
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE REASONS
HE’S BEING INDICTED, BUT JUST
IMAGINE IF THIS HAPPENED IN ANY
OTHER COUNTRY WHERE A GOVERNMENT
ARRESTED THE MAIN OPPOSITION
CANDIDATE.
THE UNITED STATES’S ABOUT TO
USE, QUOTE, DEMOCRACY AS FOREIGN
POLICY IS GONE.
THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM NEW YORK
CITY IN THE HEART OF CENTRAL
AMERICA IT IS VERY OBVIOUS WHAT
JUST HAPPENED IN THAT MANHATTAN
COURTHOUSE.
IT’S OBVIOUS TO MANY DEMOCRATS,
TOO.
TRUMP WAS CRIMINALLY CHARGED
BECAUSE HE IS PLANNING TO
CHALLENGE JOE BIDEN IN THE
UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
IT’S REALLY THAT SIMPLE.
IF DONALD TRUMP RETIRED IN 2020,
WOULD HE HAVE BEEN ARRAIGNED
TONIGHT?
OF COURSE NOT.
MOST DEMOCRATS KNOW THAT.
SOME ADMIT IT.
POLITICO RAN A PIECE DESCRIBING
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S MOST SENIOR
ADVISERS PREDICTING TRUMP WILL
BE THE NOMINEE.
AND, NOW THAT HE HAS BEEN
CHARGED WITH CRIMES, WILL LOSE
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
THANKS TO THIS CRIMINAL CASE,
THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE BELIEVES
SWING VOTERS ARE, QUOTE, NOW
PERMANENTLY OUT OF TRUMP’S
REACH.
JUST TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT SWING
VOTERS NEVER FALL WITHIN TRUMP’S
REACH, DONALD TRUMP IS SCHEDULED
TO BE BACK IN COURT IN NEW YORK
WITH THE ACCOMPANYING MEDIA
CIRCUS JUST WEEKS BEFORE THE
FIRST REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.
THIS IS THE BOLDEST ELECTION
INTERFERENCE EVER ATTEMPTED IN
THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY.
IF YOU DOUBT THAT, IF YOU THINK
IT’S ON THE LEVEL, WE SUGGEST
YOU LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE
INDICTMENT THAT WAS UNVEILED
TODAY.
DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN CHARGED
WITH 34 SEPARATE CRIMES.
THOSE CRIMES TURN OUT, ON CLOSE
EXAMINATION, TO BE THE SAME
CRIME REPEATED 34 TIMES.
THAT CRIME IS, QUOTE, FALSIFYING
BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST
DEGREE.
THE MANHATTAN DA ALLEGES DONALD
TRUMP SENT HIS OWN MONEY FOR
PEOPLE FOR ENTIRELY LEGAL
REASONS, BUT DIDN’T ACCOUNT FOR
IT CORRECTLY IN HIS OFFICE
RECORDS.
THAT’S WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF.
AND EVEN IF WHAT ALVIN BRAGG
SAID TRUMP DID HE ACTUALLY DID
DO, TRUMP COULD NOT BE CHARGED
WITH THAT BECAUSE THE STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS HAS EXPIRED.
SO THE QUESTION IS HOW DID ALVIN
BRAGG DRAG DONALD TRUMP INTO
COURT TODAY?
HE DID IT BY CLAIMING TRUMP
FALSIFIED BUSINESS RECORDS AS A
MEANS OF VIOLATING SOME OTHER,
MUCH MORE SERIOUS LAW.
THAT’S WHAT HE’S SAYING.
HERE’S ALVIN BRAGG TODAY.
>> UNDER NEW YORK STATE LAW, IT
IS A FELONY TO FALSIFY BUSINESS
RECORDS WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD
AND INTENT TO CONCEAL ANOTHER
CRIME.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS CASE
IS ABOUT.
34 FALSE STATEMENTS MADE TO
COVER UP OTHER CRIMES.
THESE ARE FELONY CRIMES IN NEW
YORK STATE NO MATTER WHO YOU
ARE.
WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT NORMALIZE
SERIOUS CRIMINAL CONDUCT.
THE DEFENDANT REPEATEDLY MADE
FALSE STATEMENTS ON NEW YORK
BUSINESS RECORDS.
HE ALSO TOLD OTHERS TO MAKE
FALSE STATEMENTS.
>> Tucker: SO HERE’S WHAT BRAGG
JUST SAID, IN CASE YOU WEREN’T
PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LECTURE.
DONALD TRUMP COMMITTED A CRIME,
NOT BY CHANGING BUSINESS
RECORDS, BUT BY CHANGING
BUSINESS RECORDS IN ORDER TO
CONCEAL ANOTHER MORE SERIOUS
CRIME OR TO DEFRAUD SOMEBODY.
LET’S TAKE THIS IN ORDER.
WHAT IS THE MORE SERIOUS CRIME?
WE HAVE NO IDEA.
BRAGG HASN’T TOLD US.
NO SUCH MORE SERIOUS CRIME IS
LISTED IN THE INDICTMENT.
DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT BEEN
CHARGED WITH ANOTHER MORE
SERIOUS CRIME.
WHAT WE HAVE OF TONIGHT IS AN
INDICTMENT THAT DOES NOT ALLEGE SPECIFIC VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW.
SPECIFIC VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BUT ALSO FARCI
FARCSICAL.
BRAGG CLAIMS TRUMP SENT MONEY TO
STORMY DANIELS IN ORDER TORE --
HE TRIED TO DEFRAUD VOTERS.
THAT TURNS OUT TO BE AN ACTUAL
CRIME.
BRAGG IS CLAIMING DONALD TRUMP
COMMITTED A CAMPAIGN FINANCE
VIOLATION.
THE PROBLEM IS, HE DID NOT
COMMIT A CAMPAIGN FINANCE
VIOLATION.
NOBODY IS CLAIMING HE DID,
INCLUDING THE FEDERAL ELECTION
COMMISSION WHICH HAS
INVESTIGATED THIS QUESTION.
THE CASE BROUGHT TODAY, THE 34
FELONIES, MAKE NO SENSE AT ALL.
IT’S RIDICULOUS.
BUT THE POLITICAL TACT, WHICH IS
WHAT IT IS, IT’S LIKELY TO BE
EFFECTIVE.
THAT’S WHY THE MEDIA SUPPORTS
IT.
WATCH.
>> KIND OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN
DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT HAVE A
HISTORY OF BEING DISCRIMINATED
AGAINST, WHETHER JEWS OR BLACK
AMERICANS OR LBGQT WHO MIGHT
COME BACK TO PUSH BACK AGAINST
THE WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST
ASSAULT ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
>> YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT PART THIS
MAN MIGHT PLAY IN THE FUTURE OF
OUR DEMOCRACY.
>> THIS CAMPAIGN OF
DISINFORMATION IS UNDER MINING
OUR DEMOCRACY.
>> PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK HOW WE
HANDLED THIS ISSUE OF TRUMP AND
HOW IT AFFECTS THEIR DEMOCRACY.
COULD BE A MAJOR EVENT.
COULD BE A BIG TURNING POINT ONE
WAY OR THE OTHER. >> THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAID
>> THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAID
THIS IS A CRIME THAT IMPAIRILS
OUR DEMOCRACY.
>> Tucker: WE’RE GOING TO
PREVENT THE LEADING CANDIDATE
FROM THE OTHER PARTY FOR RUNNING
FOR PRESIDENT.
NOTICE THERE WAS NOT ONE WORD
ABOUT ANY CRIME HERE, MEANING A
VIOLATION OF STATUTE.
SO WHAT IS THIS REALLY ABOUT?
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD MSNBC’S GUEST
DESCRIBE IT AS A LARGER OFFENSE
TO PUSH BACK AGAINST THE WHITE
CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST ASSAULT ON
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
CASE YOU’RE WAITING TO HEAR THE
REAL MOTIVE, THERE IT IS.
LET THAT SINK IN.
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE JUSTICE OR
TRIBAL JUSTICE?
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
WE’RE WAITING FOR DONALD TRUMP
TO SPEAK ABOUT ALL THIS FROM
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA.
IN THE MEAN TIME THERE’S A LEGAL