Trump showed up for his third arraigment basically alone
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a very sad day for America, this was never supposed to happen in America. |
| 0:18.7 | We are literally trying to imprison political opponents, we're better than this. |
| 0:23.4 | She should be in prison, let me tell you. |
| 0:28.2 | She should be in prison. |
| 0:30.4 | Threatening me with 400 years in prison for possessing my own presidential papers. |
| 0:36.8 | It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge |
| 0:41.9 | of the law in our country. |
| 0:44.1 | Because you'd be in jail. |
| 0:46.8 | After all those years of lock her up, Trump and his rapidly shrinking inner circle don't |
| 0:53.4 | see the hypocrisy of whining about the possibility of Trump going to prison. |
| 0:59.6 | As his lawyers test out long shot defenses for the serious charges he faces. |
| 1:05.0 | And vindication is complete in Tennessee, the two expelled state reps win special elections |
| 1:10.8 | to keep their seats. |
| 1:12.2 | One of them, Justin J. Pearson, joins me tonight. |
| 1:16.6 | But we begin tonight with one of the most striking aspects of Donald Trump's third |
| 1:22.3 | arrangement yesterday, besides the fact that former president of the United States has |
| 1:25.8 | been arraigned for crimes three times. |
| 1:29.9 | And it is that all of his frenzied truth social posts and for all of his Republican |
| 1:35.8 | speechifying and about political prosecution, the man who showed up in a Washington courtroom |
| 1:42.1 | on Thursday was basically alone. |
| 1:44.7 | None of his family came to support him, no Malania, no Ivanka, no Jared, Don Jr. or Eric. |
| 1:50.3 | They can't even blame the location because it didn't show up for his Florida or New |
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