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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to political beat down. I'm Ben Mycellus joined by Michael Cohen who is no longer a |
0:10.7 | protected person under the gag order in the Manhattan criminal case |
0:15.9 | where Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts. |
0:20.0 | Moments ago Justice Mershahn made a ruling, |
0:24.4 | lifting the gag order partially as it relates to witnesses |
0:30.5 | and as it relates to the jury. |
0:32.1 | Now, the protective order as it relates to the jury. Now the protective order as it relates to specific jurors' identities |
0:38.1 | and keeping the jury anonymous from the public, |
0:41.6 | that remains in effect, but Donald Trump is now permitted to comment on the jury, and he's permitted to comment on witnesses like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. |
0:52.6 | Justice Mershahn said that he was making this order reluctantly, |
0:58.0 | but that now that the trial proceedings are over, |
1:01.8 | he thought that based on New York law, the appellate division and ultimately the |
1:06.4 | Court of Appeals would view that there is a change in circumstances on the integrity of the proceeding justification for the gag order. |
1:16.3 | The proceedings themselves is still taking place because of sentencing on July 11th, but since the trial is over and Trump was convicted |
1:26.7 | and witnesses are not going to be called in that specific trial, nor is the jury impaneled anymore. |
1:34.4 | They've been discharged from their duties. |
1:36.8 | Justice Mershon felt he had no other decision |
1:40.6 | to make other than this. |
1:41.8 | And, you know, like say what you want but |
1:44.1 | justice mershana has not been making all these orders against Donald Trump he was |
1:48.4 | actually fairly even in the amount of orders that were pro-Trump |
1:52.5 | or pro-prosecution during the trial, |
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