Good evening from new york I'm chris hayes, and we are a week out from the first criminal trial of an ex-president in american history and donald trump is doing everything in his power to prevent it from happening. Today he lost before a new york appellant court after he tried to argue that his hush money election interference case should be delayed pending his appeal of his gag order. In the same case, that's a gag order that was issued by the judge, because trump cannot stop making threatening and inflammatory statements about people involved in his legal cases, including in this case the judge's own daughter, trump, also lost a separate appeal to get the case delayed. Yesterday, a different new york judge declined to postpone the case while trump tries to get it moved out of manhattan to a more favorable jurisdiction. This all comes after he lost yet another appeal for delay last week, which was partially related to his claims of presidential immunity. Of course, the payments at hand happened before he was president, or at least they were agreed to before was president.
He bribed an adult film actress to cover up an extramarital affair they had, while his wife was at home, taking care of their four-month-old son and here's the thing donald trump is incredibly litigious. He has spent his entire career in and out of court. In fact, the only thing he seems to enjoy more than suing people is threatening to sue people. Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign total fabrication. The events never happened.
Never all of these liars will be sued after the election is over, but I've never seen anybody that lied as much as ted cruz. He doesn't even have the right to serve as president or even run as president. He was born in canada, so I will bring that lawsuit if he doesn't apologize, they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on false commercials and it's a disgrace. So what we'll do I guess, we'll sue them? Let's sue them right, let's sue them. Can you go four years without threatening to sue anybody? It's also a tactic for me. It's a business for me and I've been successful and I've. You know used litigation and sometimes I use it. Maybe when I shouldn't and sometimes I, don't in the past, I think it's fair to say, the ex president was not afraid of a protracted legal battle. He seemed to relish them and if you ask him and the people around him, they all insist right now that he is just chomping at the bit ready for a fight, this new york case, and he got into a you know a typical donald, trump posture. Where he's ready to to be combative on on something that he believes is an injustice um his knees, don't buckle, savannah, so I I think uh he's now in the posture that he's he's ready to fight this. This is an allout war, an allout war donald trump is the toughest human being I've ever met.
I'm. Sorry, here's the thing. If you actually look at donald trump's actions, he is not standing at the courthouse door, saying bring it on. He is clearly desperate to avoid going to trial. I mean he is truly throwing everything at the wall see what will stick there's one really good reason why he is trying so desperately to wriggle out of this trial. Which is that the government has a very good case against him and the reason we know the government has a very good case is because the issue at hand here the facts of the charges have already resulted in someone going to jail. Michael con was the one. The intermediary, who pulled off the scheme of structuring these very payments to stormy daniels prosecutors under the trump administration trump's justice department, said it was illegal and illegal in a way to benefit trump's campaign.
It benefited trump's campaign specifically because the payments came right after the news. The access hollywood tape broke, and, if you remember, trump was the weakest had ever been as a candidate one more scandal like say a secret affair with a porn star, while his wife was taking care of their four-month-old newborn, would have very likely ended his campaign. One of the great counterfactuals of american history, so what happened? Trump had michael con interfere in the election by paying stormy, ds to stay quiet, michael con pleaded guilty to those charges and others. He went to prison for over a year before securing home confinement during the co pandemic again, this is all just like on the record. This is all established: okay for all of trump's, uh gravity, defying imp case from accountability and believe me covered him for a while. Now there have been many legal or otherwise, you know somewhere deep down. He is just a scared, 77y old man. You know toughest guy I've ever met. Notwithstanding he's also someone that has watched a whole bunch of people in his orbit go to actual prison or jail like really doing it. Michael con paul, manord alan weiselberg he's got accountant worked with for decades, peter naro, george, papadopolis, rick, gates trump doesn't want to join those ranks. Just ask michael con. He could at the end of that line, potentially he's legally presumed innocent.
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