Judge Merchan Calls Out Trump's Gag Order Lie
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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Summary
It's not often that a presiding judge publicly calls out a defendant for lying outside the courtroom. Yet, that is precisely what New York State court judge Juan Merchan found himself having to do when Donald Trump claimed that a gag order prohibited him from testifying in his own defense at trial.
As reported by The Hill, the "Judge in Trump's hush money (election interference) case clarifies gag order doesn't prevent ex-president from testifying."
And perhaps the worst part - at least for the legal profession - is that, as Trump lied to the American people, his defense attorney stood by his side smiling and nodding.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Judge Juan Mershahn has called out one of Donald Trump's lies. |
| 0:19.4 | Here's Gwen with details. |
| 0:22.1 | So friends, it's not every day that a judge finds himself or herself in a |
| 0:28.7 | position to expose a defendant, a defendant who was in trial before that very judge, |
| 0:37.0 | expose that defendant as a liar. |
| 0:41.0 | But that's precisely what New York State court judge Juan Mershahn just did had to do to |
| 0:48.1 | Donald Trump. |
| 0:50.0 | So let's start here. |
| 0:51.6 | In one of Donald Trump's recent hallway lies sessions, that's what I call them, when Donald |
| 0:58.2 | Trump leaves the courtroom at the end of the day, steps out into the hallway and begins spouting his lies into the public |
| 1:07.0 | square. |
| 1:08.0 | In one of Trump's recent hallway lies sessions, here's what Donald Trump said and friends I'm going to |
| 1:14.8 | spare you having to listen to his voice. I'm just going to read what he said. |
| 1:20.8 | When a reporter asked him if he was going to testify, he said, quote, well, I'm not allowed to testify. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm under a gag order, I guess. I can't even testify. Really, Donald? Well, here's the new reporting about that. This |
| 1:39.8 | from the Hill headline, Judge in Trump's hush money case clarifies gag order |
| 1:46.6 | doesn't prevent ex-president from testifying and that article begins the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money trial has clarified that the gag order pertaining to the former president doesn't prohibit him from testifying on his own behalf. |
| 2:05.0 | Judge Juan Mershahn started the trial day Friday by making that clarification, |
| 2:11.0 | apparently responding to comments the Republican former president made |
| 2:16.4 | after court the day before. |
| 2:19.5 | And here's what Politico reported about exactly what Judge Mershahn said to Donald Trump after Trump made |
| 2:26.5 | that absurd claim, that the gag order means he can't testify in his own defense at his own trial. |
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