A Tale of Two Cases: The Good News and the Bad News

Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

New York State court judge Juan Merchan seems fed up with the incessant attempts by Trump and his legal team to delay his criminal trial for interfering in the 2016 election by making hush money payments and falsifying business records to cover them up. Judge Merchan ruled that Trump's NY prosecution will begin with jury selection on April 15.

In another legal development, a New York appeals court inexplicably reduced the amount of the bond Trump must put up to appeal the massive money judgement entered against him in his business fraud trial. The bond amount was suppose to be $464 million. Yet without any explanation, analysis, or citation to legal authority, the appeals court ordered the bond reduced to $175 million. This is an especially curious development as it comes just days after Trump boasted on social media that he had close to a half-billion dollars of cash on hand.

One thing seems pretty clear: many of our institutions of government - particularly the federal government - seem to have concluded that the rules, the laws, and the Constitution apply differently to Trump than to everyone else.

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0:00.0	It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Donald Trump's hush money trial is now set for April 15th and a New York
0:20.6	appeals court has reduced the amount of bond
0:23.0	Trump must post to stop his properties from being seized.
0:26.7	Here's Glenn to unpack the good news and the bad.
0:31.1	So friends, we've got to start with the good news today because at least at the moment
0:38.4	Donald Trump's first criminal case, his first prosecution is scheduled to begin on April 15th.
0:46.5	That's the case in New York being prosecuted by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
0:52.3	That's the case in which Donald Trump interface. by district attorney Alvin Bragg.
0:52.8	That's the case in which Donald Trump
0:54.6	interfered in the 2016 presidential election
0:58.4	by making hush money payments to playmates and porn stars and then falsifying business records
1:05.6	criminally to try to cover up the true nature of those payments. Why? Well,
1:12.1	because he wanted to bury that deeply damaging
1:14.9	information from the American voters. He wanted to rob us of the full value of
1:19.9	our vote. That's what those crimes were all about and that trial at long last is
1:26.5	scheduled to begin on April 15th at least for the moment. But then we got some inexplicably bad news. A New York
1:37.1	Appeals Court did an enormous favor for Donald Trump in his business fraud case.
1:43.9	That's the case in which he was ordered to pay or
1:47.5	discord about a half a billion dollars for his long-term systemic business fraud in New York.
1:56.5	The reason I call it inexplicably bad news is because the appeals court didn't offer one word
2:01.7	of explanation about why they did this enormous
2:06.2	favor for Donald Trump and you probably heard the nature of the favor they
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