Maggie Haberman

The retribution is taking forms that people didn't expect it would. Trump, in whatever it was, March 2023, right before he was indicted for the first time, told his supporters at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, I am your retribution. And so far, he is acting that way.

The retribution is taking forms that people didn't expect it would. Trump, in whatever it was, March 2023, right before he was indicted for the first time, told his supporters at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, I am your retribution. And so far, he is acting that way.

Thank you, Michael.

Thank you, Michael.

Sure. So President-elect Trump's lawyers filed a request for the Supreme Court to stop Trump's scheduled sentencing on felony falsifying business records that related to a payment to a porn star who said she'd had an affair with Trump. Right. We think of this as the hush money case. The hush money case. And the sentencing was scheduled by New York Justice Juan Merchan for January 10th.

Sure. So President-elect Trump's lawyers filed a request for the Supreme Court to stop Trump's scheduled sentencing on felony falsifying business records that related to a payment to a porn star who said she'd had an affair with Trump. Right. We think of this as the hush money case. The hush money case. And the sentencing was scheduled by New York Justice Juan Merchan for January 10th.

When this runs, Friday morning. Right. Now, it's worth bearing in mind, Michael, that part of why this sentencing has not happened yet is because Trump's legal team has repeatedly requested delays over and over and over again. And Merchan's feeling is it needs to happen at a certain point for closure and respect for the jury verdict and so forth and so on.

When this runs, Friday morning. Right. Now, it's worth bearing in mind, Michael, that part of why this sentencing has not happened yet is because Trump's legal team has repeatedly requested delays over and over and over again. And Merchan's feeling is it needs to happen at a certain point for closure and respect for the jury verdict and so forth and so on.

He has refused their request to dismiss the case outright. The Trump team is not surprisingly using every avenue they can to try to delay it.

He has refused their request to dismiss the case outright. The Trump team is not surprisingly using every avenue they can to try to delay it.

Legally, it's the presidential immunity argument, and it's going to be up to the justices to decide whether in their previous ruling about how presidents have pretty broad immunity for acts committed while in office, whether this would technically apply. There is the question, and I do think that some of the justices may feel this pull of,

Legally, it's the presidential immunity argument, and it's going to be up to the justices to decide whether in their previous ruling about how presidents have pretty broad immunity for acts committed while in office, whether this would technically apply. There is the question, and I do think that some of the justices may feel this pull of,

whether an incoming president should be facing a hearing where even though the judge in the case has signaled that he's going to give Trump an unconditional discharge, meaning no penalties, no jail times, no anything, no home confinement, it is onerous to go into office that way. And that's not really a legal argument. It's more a respect for the presidency argument.

whether an incoming president should be facing a hearing where even though the judge in the case has signaled that he's going to give Trump an unconditional discharge, meaning no penalties, no jail times, no anything, no home confinement, it is onerous to go into office that way. And that's not really a legal argument. It's more a respect for the presidency argument.

I can't speak to what a military effort would look like that isn't an invasion. In terms of economic pressure, tariffs are Trump's tool of choice and have been over and over again. And I was talking to a former Biden administration official about this today who was saying that folks in Greenland are alarmed about the tariff threats.

I can't speak to what a military effort would look like that isn't an invasion. In terms of economic pressure, tariffs are Trump's tool of choice and have been over and over again. And I was talking to a former Biden administration official about this today who was saying that folks in Greenland are alarmed about the tariff threats.

And there's a sense in Greenland that, as David said, this is different than the discussion in 2019, which was this would be great for us strategically. That's a little different than I want this and I'm going to take it. And I've been reminding some people in the last couple of days that Trump in the early 1980s

And there's a sense in Greenland that, as David said, this is different than the discussion in 2019, which was this would be great for us strategically. That's a little different than I want this and I'm going to take it. And I've been reminding some people in the last couple of days that Trump in the early 1980s

when he was making his name as a developer, did things like threaten to move homeless people into a building he had bought to try to get certain tenants out. He did things like paint the homes of people who lived near one of his casinos in Atlantic City because he just didn't like the way they looked without asking their permission. Just went and painted their houses.

when he was making his name as a developer, did things like threaten to move homeless people into a building he had bought to try to get certain tenants out. He did things like paint the homes of people who lived near one of his casinos in Atlantic City because he just didn't like the way they looked without asking their permission. Just went and painted their houses.