In case you missed it, scandal-ridden and newly-indicted former President Donald Trump sat for an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson this week on the heels of his historical arraignment on a whopping 34 felony criminal charges last week.
Following several teaser clips, that interview finally aired in full last night, and it was chock full of all of the insane Trump nonsense you’ve come to know and expect from this guy over the years — including his particularly outlandish claim that employees and officers of the Manhattan courthouse where he faced his technical arrest and arraignment process were literally crying and apologizing on his behalf as they booked and processed him in.
“When I went to the courthouse, which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in and I’ll tell you people were crying – people that work there, professionally work there, that have no problems putting in murderers and they see everybody,” Trump told the Fox host in the hilariously unhinged interview. “It’s tough, tough place, and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said ‘I’m sorry.'”
Honestly, we’re all pretty much already aware that Donald’s story is a load of bull if we’ve ever heard one. But one legal expert is speaking out on the heels of the interview and making sure that everyone knows the former president is absolutely full of it.
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Last night, in the aftermath of Trump’s obnoxious Tucker Carlson interview, MSNBC convened a panel to discuss Donald’s dramatics, including the ridiculous crying court cop claims.
MSNBC commentator Tristan Snell was the first to note that, in the footage we did see of Trump as he headed into the Manhattan courthouse on the day of his arraignment, there didn’t appear to be a wet eye in sight. While MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out that, in fact, one of the court officers very noticeably didn’t even hold the door open for the disgraced former president.
But former FBI general counsel and NYU Law professor Andrew Weissmann was the one to specifically pour cold water on Trump’s claims that Manhattan court officers were literally crying on his behalf.
“That it is not common,” Weissmann said. “The people who are crying in court are, you know, at times the defendant, certainly the defendant’s family, for understandable reasons. Court officers and police officers are trained — they just keep that all inside, whatever they are thinking. I can’t say that I think that they have a ton of sympathy for people who are charged. They know that the people who are charged are — the vast, vast majority — are guilty. And they are just doing the job to make sure that due process is upheld. But we are, as you note, going to listen to Donald Trump saying this over and over again. And it is going to be in circumstances where it can’t be checked. No surprise there. It’s also pathetic.”
O’Donnell turned his attention to Trump’s recent vows that, even if criminally convicted of the variety of charges against him, he refuses to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
“It will be interesting because as you note, he could end up being charged in four separate cases two federal and two state,” Weissmann weighed in. “I do think that there is an issue about timing, whether any of those cases will actually come to fruition before the election. The D.A. — D.A. [Alvin] Bragg is trying very hard to have the trial in January. So, he is seeking that. And I have to say that D.A. Bragg is showing a real fearlessness in terms of how he is handling this, and I think strategically. And I think strategically, as Dan pointed out, he is doing the exact right thing, which is getting into court.”
See the MSNBC segment here:
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