The Retribution Presidency Is Here
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It is Saturday, October the 11th. Mark this as the week when Donald Trump's |
| 0:13.0 | campaign of retribution ramped up. The week when one of his perceived political enemies was |
| 0:17.7 | arraigned in court. Another was formally indicted, and a third is expected to face |
| 0:21.9 | criminal charges in the coming days. It's all happening out in the open as the retribution presidency |
| 0:26.4 | that Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail arrives. Last night, MSNBC broke the news |
| 0:31.8 | that criminal charges are expected to be filed soon against Donald Trump's former national security |
| 0:36.6 | advisor, John Bolton. |
| 0:38.5 | Bolton has a long history of budding heads with the president. |
| 0:41.5 | He's remained a vocal Trump critic ever since he was fired from the first Trump administration. |
| 0:46.8 | In August, federal agents executed a search warrant of Bolton's home looking for suspected classified records. |
| 0:53.7 | Possible charges against him, which could come as |
| 0:55.8 | early as next week, appeared likely to invoke his handling of classified information. |
| 1:00.4 | Now, that news dropped just 24 hours after a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted |
| 1:06.0 | New York's Attorney General Letitia James. She's been charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making |
| 1:12.3 | false statements. James forcefully denies the charges against her, and in a statement, she called her |
| 1:17.3 | prosecution, quote, the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system, end quote. |
| 1:23.4 | James was the one you'll remember who brought a civil fraud suit against the Trump organization, a case that she initially won. |
| 1:30.0 | It resulted in a half a billion dollar penalty, but that penalty was recently voided by an appeals court. |
| 1:36.2 | But the saga's not over yet. James says she's planning to appeal that decision. |
| 1:40.3 | That lawsuit damaged Trump's reputation and image as a successful businessman, which is perhaps why James appears to be the near-the-top of Trump's enemies list, the second of his perceived foes to be indicted. |
| 1:52.2 | The first was the former Attorney General, James Comey. Last month, he was charged with one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstructing |
| 2:01.4 | a congressional proceeding. This week, Comey was arraigned in federal court. He pleaded not guilty. His |
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