Hey, good morning. It's Sunday, February the 18th. I'm Ali Velshi. It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times. That pretty much sums up Donald Trump's 2024 so far.

He began the year on a high note with a huge and historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, then the New Hampshire

primary, cementing his frontrunner status and offering further proof that he is untouchable

within the Republican Party. In addition to that, recent polling trends have shown him

pulling ahead of President Biden in hypothetical head-to-head matchups. We'll talk about those later in the show.

But for a presidential candidate, you really can't start an election year in a better position.

However, Trump's not a normal candidate.

We're only 49 days into the new year, and the twice impeached,

multiply indicted ex-president has already been found liable for defamation and fraud in addition to being held

liable for sexual abuse last year. And as a result of those cases, he's been fined about half a billion

dollars in civil penalties and interest. You'd think that it can't get any worse. But for Donald

Trump, it actually just might. In the same

week that Judge Arthur and Goran penalized him $355 million plus interest in the civil fraud case,

another judge in New York confirmed that Trump's first criminal trial can proceed as planned

beginning March 25th. With the federal election interference case in D.C.

Still indefinitely postponed,

that means that the Manhattan District Attorney,

Alvin Bragg, this man, the first prosecutor in history

to indict a former president,

will likely become the first prosecutor in history

to try a former president in a court of law.

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