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Deadline: White House

“A period of reckoning”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Government, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Msnbc, Versant, The White House, Washington Dc

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ayman Mohyeldin – in for Nicolle Wallace – discusses the latest updates in the classified documents case against the ex-president after another Mar-a-Lago employee was charged last week, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s new comments on the timeline of her investigation into the 2020 election, GOP presidential candidates struggling to navigate the ex-president’s many criminal investigations while campaigning against him, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s latest interview with the Wall Street Journal, and more. Joined by: Harry Litman, Claire McCaskill, Betsy Woodruff Swan, John Brennan, Charlie Sykes, Patricia Murphy, Andrew Weissmann, Mara Gay, Paul Rieckhoff, and Mark Joseph Stern.

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0:00.0

Hey there everyone, it is 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Aiman Mahidini in today for Nicole

0:11.4

Wallace. It is not the crime. It is the cover-up. A real world lesson in that age-old expression

0:17.7

today for Donald Trump and by extension, his aides caught up in the classified documents

0:23.2

indictment. Today, Carlos Deliviera, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, newly charged in special

0:28.2

counsel Jackson's documents case, was in court. It was his first public appearance since

0:33.0

being named in last week's superseding indictment, accused of telling another Mar-a-Lago employee

0:39.2

the boss wanted surveillance footage deleted. Footage sought by the Department of Justice

0:44.4

at the time. He's also accused of lying to investigators. Again, it is not the crime folks,

0:50.3

it is the cover-up. But there is a delay. Deliviera hasn't secured local counsel to represent

0:56.6

him in Florida, so the judge asked him to return later, next Thursday, to go about the

1:02.6

arrangement. Now, if all of this sounds familiar, that's because the other Trump aide

1:07.6

indicted in the classified documents case, the valet, Wal-Tonata, twice had his not guilty

1:13.2

plea postponed for the very same reason. And perhaps you're saying to yourself, what a stroke

1:18.5

of bad fortune. Both indicted Trump associates somehow unable to find a Florida lawyer. There

1:24.9

by delaying their trials with the 2024 election fast approaching. Go figure. Now this afternoon

1:31.9

there are also significant concerns surrounding Deliviera's legal fees, specifically who

1:37.3

is going to pay for them. It's reportedly a Trump pack, and that raises a number of major

1:42.3

questions that we are going to address throughout the hour. But first, consider how this particular

1:48.2

moment in time reflects a pattern between the early 2000s and today Carlos Deliviera went

1:54.1

from parking cars and fixing stuff at Mar-a-Lago for around $10,000 a year to filing for bankruptcy

2:01.0

before rising to the position of property manager. And the New York Times takes it from

2:06.9

there. The path Deliviera followed is as familiar in the world of Trump, who often views

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