The Trump Verdict and What it Means for the November Election

Today, Matt and Brett are going to do their best to walk through the Trump verdict and make sense of what this means for the election in November—and, most importantly, what it means for our country. While most observers on both sides of the partisan spectrum expected hostility for Trump in a New York trial, the outcome has still shocked the world, leading one commentator to describe it as “America’s first-ever Stalinist trial.” In a remarkable twisting of law and legal standards, the New York state judicial system pieced together fragments of law to make a case against Trump—even though multiple authorities with jurisdiction over the matter, especially on questions of campaign finance, had already passed on bringing any allegation of wrongdoing. It’s important to understand how weak the case was—and to push back on this abuse of the justice system. Tune in at 4pm today!