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What do we define woke as a question? What is going to happen with the district attorney who's worried about now apparently the weakness of the case against the former president? And does he want a perp walk for the cameras? Well, I would hope so. Welcome back to the show, glad you're here today, 855-3912-10, and on Twitter at Rich Zioly, great to have you with us today. But how do we define woke? For the answer to that question, let me turn to my buddy Dr. Wilford Riley,

who stands at Kentucky State University. What's up there, Dr. Riley? How are you today? I'm doing pretty well, just living life. Still wondering if the Trump indictment is going to drop. I mean, you just mentioned that, but other than that, not doing too much prepping a cut the bull podcast episode. What's your 30,000-foot view of the Trump indictment? I mean, I think the Trump indictment is a partisan joke. I mean, you see this from both parties.

From time to time, I mean, this is like the Roger Stone kind of stuff. I mean, what Trump is being indicted for is a technical financial violation that ties into his allegedly paying. A thought is the word that comes to mind colloquially, but a sex worker, stormy Daniels for sex. What, eight years ago is 2015, 2016. Trump offered her $130,000 above board, above the table, if she wouldn't mention their relationship.

Daniel signed the contract. I think there was some technical flaw in the contract, so she obviously has mentioned it a couple times. But Trump apparently reported this as a legal expense rather than a campaign expense or some such thing.

Calvin Bragg, who is a pretty hard to the left Manhattan DA. He's mentioned before he'd like to get Trump. He'd like to get some of these quote-unquote crooked businessmen in Manhattan.

He is convened a six-month-long grand jury to look into this capital letters, very serious case. And he has come out with one misdemeanor b violation that he is charging the big guy with.

So the question is, are they going to go down to Florida and try to bring him back? Or for a misdemeanor, will he simply zoom into court and say, not guilty? And then you'll have a taste that lasts two years.

We'll see. But I mean, I will say that this is the kind of charge you almost never see. I've worked in the sales and trading floor world, and the idea that you might mislabel an expense quote-unquote accidentally when you're adding up the expense accounts for the year,

where you're looking at the sales versus the marketing budget. This is, we're not talking about in-run. We're talking about something at this level.

So this is kind of like the second Trump impeachment, or the first Bill Clinton impeachment, where the legendary Chris Rock line is, they're charging him with stuff I didn't know was crimes.

It's completely political. There's no way you couldn't do this to anyone who has a non-disclosure agreement, but that is the basis of the charges.

And this guy, this this this this is an attorney, too. I think I heard somewhere 52% of the time he dropped felonies down to misdemeanors. And in this case, this is a misdemeanor. He would be jacking up to a felony, right?

Well, I don't I don't see how you could take this kind of technical violation up to a felony. I mean, it's going to be an a misdemeanor charge. It's a non bail charge in New York. And this is this is actually speaking in my legal role.

I mean, I don't not that I'm a practicing talkie lawyer, but I don't I don't really see this. The impact of this in terms of what Trump could get. I mean, it would be a three-month suspended sentence or something. It's not very serious.

The impact, of course, is political. It's partisan. So you get to have this circus where on New York TV, which is which transmits directly to the national network.

The former president is being charged with paying off a porn star or a prostitute or however you want to look at that. You know, he's being he might be in the orange rikers jumpsuit for an hour. And if he is, you know, that picture is going to leak.

So I mean, that that's the point of it. I don't I don't even think you'll get a felony claim out of this.

But the I think the first part of what you said is actually more important like Alvin Bragg is literally one of these without getting conspiratorial one of these sorrows funded DNA.

He's a guy who I think you said in 52% of cases when a felony case was originally brought. He allowed his prosecutors to reduce that to a misdemeanor.

So I mean, in New York last I looked at this for a paper with Bob Maranto, but the New York murder rate had spiked 58% between 2020 and today.

You have a hundred more murders in New York per year than you used to and that's devastating black Puerto Rican, you know, ethnic white communities.

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