Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump’s ‘Enemies List’ Is a Badge of Honor, Letitia James Joins Those Who Beat the Madman in Court

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O’DONNELL: “And it did not end well for the madman at the center of the plot the president with an enemies list. The big difference between disgraced Republican president, Richard Nixon and disgraced Republican president Donald Trump is Richard Nixon. Did not spend his life. Locked in a Trump in prison of stupidity, a prison from which Donald Trump has never even tried to escape Donald Trump could have at a moment in high school when he decided. You know what I should really learn something here. He could have had a moment like that in college. He could have decided to stay home one night and read a book instead of partying with Jeffrey Epstein, but he didn’t. He never did. Richard Nixon grew up poor or he inherited nothing. He worked hard in high school. He worked hard all the way through whittier college and Duke law. School worked his way through Richard Nixon was constantly trying to learn, but he never learned enough to contain his darkest criminal impulses. The destroyed him in the end forcing him to resign. The presidency and scandal one big difference between Republican Donald Trump and Republican Richard Nixon, is that Richard Nixon did not make his enemies list public. We are learning in the reporting from The Wall Street Journal. The Donald Trump intended to send a personal private text to his attorney general pam, bondi, demanding than criminal prosecution of former FBI director, James commie, New York, state attorney John politician, James and California, of Adam Schiff. But what he actually composed, instead of a text and what he actually sent was a social media post that became available to the entire world for Wall Street Journal reports. Trump believed he had sent bondi the message directly, addressing it’s a pam and was surprised to learn. It was public. According to the us officials, familiar with the matter, the misfire provided a window into how, through command and chaos, Trump has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department. Donald Trump is going to walter, reed national military medical center tomorrow for another physical. Only six months after his last physical— and he very proudly told reporters today, but he expects to do very well on another cognitive exam to detect evidence of dimension. Luckily, for Donald Trump texting is not on the cognitive function. Exam most important thing to know about the enemies list is that it was a badge of honor when the full version of the Nixon enemies list was unveiled by the Nixon White House counsel, John Dean, at the Watergate hearings. By that time, everyone was hoping they were on it.”
VIDEO: “The next, as I document dated September nine 19, seventy one from Charles colson to John Dean, in which Mr coulson has checked. In blue. Those that he would give top priority on the enemies list and a. And attach series of lives. They were prepared by Mr cosmos office of what were deemed, and opponents or political enemies.”
O’DONNELL: “In, a secret memo written by John Dean and the Nixon White House two years before the Watergate investigation. John Dean outlined quote how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. And, it didn’t work. Some people had their telephones tap, they had their taxes audited, but for just about all of the two hundred or so people in the full version of the makes, an enemies list, nothing happened. In fact they didn’t get screwed. They thrived. Gene Hackman won his first oscar. While he was secretly on the Nixon enemies lists. Gregory peck didn’t have to give back his oscar because he was on Nixon’s enemies, list, along with Paul newman and Steven queen, a New York jets quarterback Joe nemeth, who was erroneously listed as the New York giants. Quarterback. That’s, how crazy. The Nixon enemies list was dozens of members of the news media were on the list when it came out, including three from the Boston globe which the globe than lord it over other newspapers, with fewer entries on the enemies list sent of an ogre made the list to make NBC News proud. 11 senators were all on the list, including one Republican. None of them got screwed by Richard Nixon and his White House thugs. In anyway. Every black member of Congress was on the Nixon enemies list because of course, the list was also racist. In addition to being crazy, Harvard could not have been prouder of it’s most famous professor. At the time, economist John kenneth galbraith for making the Nixon enemies list Yale’s present was on the Nixon, an enemies list Harvard law. School’s Dean was on the Nixon enemies list and the most famous surgeon in America at the time. Texas, heart surgeon, Michael debakey, for some knicks only and reason was on Nixon’s enemies, list, the most famous conductor and composer and America at the time. Leonard bernstein was no one’s enemy except Richard Nixon’s, and he could not have been prouder and so the badges of honor our being awarded once again, and it will end the same way, Donald Trump’s enemies list. As the badge of honor of our era and today, New York State attorney journal. Letitia James got one of those badges when the same possibly illegally appointed acting. You us attorney, who invited friends, call me indicted attorney general James attorney general James is being indicted in a three and a half page to count indictment for one count of bank fraud and one count of false statement to financial institution, because on a mortgage, application attorney general James indicated that she would use a second home. She was buying as a second home and then at some time. After that, after she bought the home, she apparently according to the indictment of it that home quote, was not occupied, are used by James as a secondary residence and was instead used as a rental investment property, renting the property to a family of three. Now millions of people in America have done exactly that. Millions of people in America have obtained mortgages for their primary home or their secondary home and then decided at some point to rent out that house and None of them thought they had to then immediately refinance their homes because they didn’t. They were just renting out their property. The key words in this indictment that the most incompetent acting you us attorney in history. Offered, absolutely no proof of. The key words are as James van new, this indictment presence as a fact that attorney general James new, when she was filling out the application form that she would later rent out. The house and if she didn’t know that at the time that she was filling out the form or if she just hadn’t, decided at the time if she was gonna rent out the house, there is no possible crime. In this case. This is a state of mind, cry and the prosecution doesn’t know her state of crop of mine. The prosecution will never be able to prove what they claim is a fact. The indictment says James represented an affirmed in uniform residential loan applications and related documents that the property would be used as a secondary residence. This is the key part when, in truth, and fact, as James van new was the most important words her ass James, then new the property was intended and used as an investment property. So this entire case comes down to the prosecution having to prove what it claims is: a fact that a train journal James then new, and that she intended to rent out the property. This is state of mind. You have to be able to read her state of mind to do this prosecution. If you fill out your application for your home mortgage- and you say the property is for your own use and then after you on the property, if you decide to rent out their property, you have every legal right in the world to rent out their property and no one can come along and prosecute you, because your mortgage application didn’t say you were going to at some point rent out your pride. 30, we live in a place that we like to call a free country, and one of your freedoms is renting out your property and you can decide to do that at any time after you buy that property, and so imagine this prosecutor has never prosecuted case in her life. Trying to convince a trial jury that attorney general James willfully lied on the application and always knew that she was gonna rent out the property. That is a provable state of mind, and the prosecutor cannot call attorney general James as a witness to ask her what her state of mind, was, and so there’s a very strong chance that this case, if it makes it to trial, will get a directed verdict from the judge finding that the prosecution was in capable of proving what it claims in writing in the indictment is a fact, train, general James state of mind, so attorney general James. It’s probably on our way to take her place in history with former FBI director James me at the top of the Trump enemies list and as the people who beat the mad man in the White House in court, because that is what is likely to happen here. You can listen to all sorts of lawyers. Talk about this case, but it comes down to the same elements as the James call me case. First motions gonna be to disqualify this a new acting the us attorney. Those motions will very probably succeed. The other motions will be to identify this as a selective and prejudicial prosecution. Those motions will likely succeed in that would be the under the case. Attorney general James has already beaten Donald Trump in court for business fraud. Practices in the state of New York from casey said earlier. James call me and Letitia James have the best defense lawyers you can possibly have in these cases. They’re going to win Donald Trump is going to lose. Don’t why worry about them? You don’t have to worry about up. There is much to summon our outrage about in the Madness of the Trump presidency, but the people who Donald Trump has so far dragged into court could not possibly be better equipped or better financed to fight Donald Trump in court and crush him. What Donald Trump is doing to other people in court? What is doomed to immigrants in this country, who show up at federal courts for their appointments and then get thrown to the floor by masked men and beaten and dragged away from their families and shipped off to countries that they’ve never been to? They deserve the full force of your outrage, though people have no resources, they have no voice. They’ve done nothing wrong. They tried to do everything right right. They went to that federal court to do everything right and their lives are already ruined. They cannot wear their deportation. As, a badge of honor. But, the attorney general of the state of New York. Can. This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weapon is Asian of our justice system. He’s forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding all because I did my job as the New York State attorney general. These charges, a baseless and the president’s own public statements made clear that his only goal is political retribution. At any cost. The president’s actions are a grave violation of our constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties. His decision to fire, a United States attorney, who refuse to bring charges against me and replace them with someone who was blindly loyal not to the law but to the president, is antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country.
James: “This is the time for leaders on both sides of the aisle to speak out against this blatant perversion of our system of justice. I stand strongly behind. My office is litigation against the Trump organization we conducted a two year, investigation based on the facts and evidence, not politics. Judges have upheld the trial court’s finding the Donald Trump his company and his two sons liable for fraud. I’m a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith in here cannot share the same space. And so today I’m not fearful. I’m fearless. And, as my faith teaches mean no weapon formed against me, shall prosper. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights, and I will continue to do my job.”
O’DONNELL: “This blatant perversion of our justice system, that is, while Trump’s perversion. She’s right. She has nothing to fear that smile is real. She knows she’s gonna win, she knows, Donald Trump’s gonna lose and she knows she can wear her place on the Trump enemies list. As a badge of honor for the rest of her life”