MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 08-03-2023-223706
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Around noon today, Donald Trump left his gulf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey. |
| 0:05.7 | He got on his Trump plane at Newark International Airport, and he flew back to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:12.0 | And when Trump arrived there today, he wasn't just showing up for court. |
| 0:16.0 | He was returning to the scene of the alleged crime. |
| 0:19.5 | The federal courthouse where Trump was arraigned today sits near both the ellipse, |
| 0:23.4 | which is where Trump riled up the crowds on January 6, |
| 0:26.7 | and the Capitol Plaza, where those same rioters stormed the barricades and overtook police |
| 0:32.2 | and tried to stop the peaceful transition of power. |
| 0:36.4 | The courtroom that Trump was in today is the very same room where numerous January 6 cases have |
| 0:42.0 | been heard. The judge overseeing Trump's arraignment has also overseen the cases of people |
| 0:48.0 | including Dominic Box, a QAnon activist who livestreamed the storming of the Capitol, |
| 0:53.5 | and Jared Wise, a former FBI agent who was charged with assaulting a police officer on January 6. |
| 1:00.7 | So this was all very much a trip down memory lane from Mr. Trump. |
| 1:05.4 | Now there were no courtroom cameras today, but thanks to courtroom sketch artist Bill Hennessy, |
| 1:10.3 | we know what it looked like when a former president of the United States appeared in court |
| 1:16.0 | to be formerly and federally charged for trying to subvert American democracy. |
| 1:21.7 | There were more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment, |
| 1:25.6 | including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other January 6 cases. |
| 1:31.0 | Judges who showed up today in plain clothes as spectators for Trump's arraignment. |
| 1:37.2 | The judge presiding over today's arraignment was U.S. magistrate Judge Moxila Opavia. |
| 1:42.9 | She read the charges against Trump allowed in court and Mr. Trump pleaded not guilty to all four felony |
| 1:48.4 | charges. And then the judge gave Mr. Trump a warning. Quote, if you fail to comply with any of your |
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