‘These are strong cases on the evidence’: Trump using court messaging on campaign trail

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Donald Trump kicks off 2024 with multiple legal battles less than two weeks from the Iowa caucuses. The former president appealed Maine’s secretary of state’s decision to bar him from the state’s primary ballot. Meanwhile, Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned from her role after controversy over her congressional testimony on campus and allegations of plagiarism. And republican presidential candidates are hitting the campaign trail less than two weeks from the Iowa caucuses. Garrett Haake, Katie Benner, Glenn Kirschner, Jason Johnson, Pablo Torre, Brianne Pfannenstiel, Tim Miller, and Robert Gibbs join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, Donald Trump starting off 2024 by pushing back on Maine's ballot ban, a clash of legal
0:07.8	challenges and campaign events with just two weeks to go until the Iowa Caucasus.
0:13.4	Then Harvard University's president stepping down
0:16.7	after backlash over her congressional testimony
0:19.4	and allegations of plagiarism.
0:21.7	And Congress has a lot to get done in an election year. How this
0:25.8	could all play out with Republicans' narrow majority in the House as the 11th hour
0:30.7	gets underway on this Tuesday night.
0:33.4	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule happy to be back at MS NBC
0:44.8	headquarters here in New York City and we are kicking off our first show of the
0:49.3	new year with the reality of defendant Donald Trump on the 2024 campaign trail.
0:55.3	We are less than two weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, three weeks from the New Hampshire
1:00.1	primary, and right now his challengers for the GOP nomination have yet to touch him
1:05.9	in the polls. But Donald Trump is likely facing multiple trials this year as he
1:11.2	makes his pitch to voters to put him back in the White House.
1:14.4	Even if some date slide, get your head around this, prosecutors and Trump lawyers will be
1:19.2	filing motions and appeals all as primaries are underway. And Trump himself is and
1:24.0	Trump himself is starting this year with a legal fight to stay on primary ballots.
1:29.0	Today he appealed the main Secretary of State's decision to yank him off that state's ballot, she says
1:35.2	she has now received escalating threats since then, and she has also been the target of a
1:40.6	swatting call to her personal home address.
1:46.0	Neither political considerations nor personal considerations for my safety could enter into that decision.
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