Sarah Sanders whines that Democrats are 'acting childish' after AG Barr throws a fit and threatens not to testify
April 29, 2019
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During an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America," former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen cast doubt on the abilities of the two attorneys who will be deeply involved in defending the former president in a Manhattan courtroom after he was indicted on Thursday.
Focusing on attorneys Robert Costello and Joe Tacopina, Cohen, who already served time for lying to investigators about paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election at Trump's behest, claimed Trump's newest legal team is nothing less than a "clown show."
“You really do need lawyers that are competent. This clown show of counsel makes absolutely no sense to me. He doesn’t know the facts. How could you sit there and try to represent your client when you really have no idea what you’re talking about?" Cohen explained.
"It’s really just bravado, and it’s bravado to a party of one. And the party of one, of course, is always Donald Trump. It’s all about inflating his ego. You’re past the point of wanting to inflate your ego," he continued before bluntly adding, "Now, this is about a criminal indictment."
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Asked how he thinks Trump is taking the news, he predicted the former president is likely furious.
"He’s seething right now. He is beyond angry for many different reasons," he stated before elaborating, "The fact that he’s being held accountable–something that he has no desire to ever be. He’s never been held accountable. This is a man who held up the Bible, and said he’s never apologized to God because he’s never done anything wrong. He doesn’t understand accountability. And right now, Alvin Bragg has finally put that into his lap"
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Trump facing 'ultimate humiliation' by finally getting ensnared by criminal charges: Al Sharpton
March 31, 2023
Donald Trump and his allies insist his indictment will only help his 2024 election chances, but two people who've known him for years think he's humiliated to finally face criminal charges.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who knew Trump long before he entered politics, said his indictment on charges related to the hush money payoff to porn actress Stormy Daniels have already dented the former president's confidence.
"Politics aside this is something unfolding for 50 years," Scarborough said. "Donald Trump has always been one step ahead of whether it is prosecutors or bankruptcy laws or contract disputes always, always fighting, always trying to get out of the trap always somehow seeming to be above the law ... This is something that he has been skating on thin ice for many, many years now."
Sharpton agreed that Trump wouldn't like the feeling that the ice had cracked underneath him.
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"Donald Trump's heroes were Roy Cohn, a lawyer that was the defense attorney for mobsters," Sharpton said. "He loved to play the game of 'I can get away with this and that,' which is why I think people underestimate when they say that the New York case may be the weakest legal case, and we don't know that because we don't know what the legal case is yet until we see the indictment unsealed, because there could be more there than Stormy Daniels."
"We'll see, but what I think they don't know is this is the most humiliating for Donald Trump because he is going to be brought in New York where he played the outsider and... he will be hauled into court... and be arraigned, saying we told you he was nothing but a crook. He was a scam artist would rather be arraigned anywhere than Lower Manhattan and discredited forever. This is going to be the ultimate humiliation for the guy that played the rat running from the whatever all of a sudden he gets caught, and he gets caught where it is most humiliating for him."
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Republicans are already reacting to former President Donald Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury — and their first instinct is to use "white nationalist propaganda" to try to inflame tensions around it, wrote Zeeshan Aleem for MSNBC on Friday.
One of the best examples of this, he wrote, was Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).
"Shortly after news of the indictment emerged, [Vance] tweeted: 'A week ago a video circulated of a lunatic harassing a family on a New York subway. He hurled racial slurs (the family was white) and threatened them. Alvin Bragg thinks that man should walk free and Donald Trump should go to jail for a fake misdemeanor. It’s despicable,'" wrote Aleem. "The story he wants to tell is that white civilization is under attack and that a Black man is helping lead the movement. It’s unclear what video Vance is referring to or whether he’s even talking about somebody who was arrested — and presumably many of Vance’s hundreds of thousands of followers won’t know, either — but the intended message is clear: This Black prosecutor is letting people of color get away with attacking white people — and trying to take down our most important avatar, Donald Trump."
This is not unique — Trump himself has been trying to stir up racial resentment against Bragg for weeks, even calling him a "racist" and suggesting he is only going after Trump because he hates white people. He has made similar attacks on other Black officials, going after New York Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis.
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Trump's race-baiting goes back years; he infamously claimed during his 2016 presidential campaign that Gonzalo Curiel, a judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit, couldn't judge him fairly because he was "Mexican" and "I'm building a wall."
"Vance is only the latest Republican to try to frame New York’s criminal justice system as easy on criminals (who are always presumed to be people of color in this narrative) and eager to take down someone it perceives as a political opponent," wrote Aleem. "Never mind that New York doesn’t have a high crime rate by national standards, has long had a draconian criminal justice system and is being run by a tough-on-crime former cop. And never mind that Vance has no way of knowing what legal evidence is being marshaled to charge Trump with a 'fake' crime. The facts are beside the point."
Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans like Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) have also taken to calling Bragg "Soros-backed" or a "Soros D.A." — a reference to Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros, who often contributes to progressive and government-transparency causes and is the subject of frequent anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
"The right could have suggested that corruption is to blame for the Trump indictment without using racist and antisemitic subtexts to make its point," wrote Aleem. "Some on the right did. But many right-wing nationalists capitalized on it as yet another opportunity to reduce the world to a series of clashes between racial in-groups and out-groups, and provoke fears about what might happen if white America doesn’t snuff out an emerging Black and Jewish threat."
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