Biographer: Trump will try to 'stir up people' with racist lies to muddy the charges

Former President Donald Trump has responded to his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury by going after the prosecutor, who is Black, with a torrent of racist abuse.

This is to be expected, said Trump biographer David Cay Johnston to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday.

"You know ... he's called D.A. Bragg an 'animal,'" said Reid. "He's done the anti-Semitic trope of calling on the name of George Soros and pretending he's a puppet of the Jewish financier, much like the 1950s racists used to do with civil rights workers.