The Ramifications of Trump’s Hand-Picked Lawyers
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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is Sunday, December 7th, and we begin this hour with yet another campaign |
| 0:10.5 | promise that Donald Trump is working hard but struggling to fulfill. |
| 0:13.9 | Here he was in 2023. |
| 0:17.2 | I am your warrior. |
| 0:18.9 | I am your justice. |
| 0:20.7 | And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, |
| 0:24.4 | I am your retribution. I am your retribution. |
| 0:28.4 | A second term of retribution was promised. But retribution is technically punishment for some |
| 0:35.0 | wrongdoing. What Trump is serving up is actually spite and his |
| 0:39.6 | perceived enemies, particularly those who spearheaded criminal and civil investigations into Trump's |
| 0:44.7 | own alleged misconduct, have been targeted with lawsuits and indictments. Trump has demanded |
| 0:49.3 | Attorney General Pam Bondi essentially seek revenge on his behalf. People have suffered as a result of this |
| 0:55.1 | agenda of spite, but it's also hit some serious snags. Career prosecutors who were reported to have |
| 1:00.9 | refused to pursue cases against Trump's perceived enemies based on lack of evidence were removed |
| 1:06.5 | or sidelined. The lawyers who've taken their place, many of them personal attorneys for Trump |
| 1:10.8 | and other close allies, have treated Trump's wishes with more zeal, but with considerably less |
| 1:16.3 | skill. This week, a grand jury declined to indict to indictment. Tish James for allegations of |
| 1:21.2 | mortgage fraud. Grand juries are known to typically follow a prosecutor's lead and issue indictment, |
| 1:26.9 | so much so that a New York judge |
| 1:28.1 | once said that a grand jury would, quote, indict a ham sandwich. And yet on Thursday, the grand |
| 1:33.5 | jury chose not to indict James. A source told MS now, quote, there should be no premature celebrations |
| 1:39.9 | by James, but this marked the second time that the Justice Department's case against her |
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