Judge Merchan Finds Donald Trump in Criminal Contempt of Court
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has many "firsts" to his credit: first former president criminally indicted by a state; first former president criminally indicted by the feds; first former president tried for his crimes; and now, first former president held in criminal contempt. Glenn reviews Judge Juan Merchan's order, finding - beyond a reasonable doubt - that Donald Trump violated New York law nine times by committing the crime of contempt of court. Glenn also discusses the implications of this finding in the four criminal cases in which Trump is on pretrial release.
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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 has now been charged with contempt of court for violating his gag order in his 2016 election interference trial. Glenn says he predicted this would happen. |
| 0:27.3 | So friends, there are so many firsts that we can attribute to Donald Trump. Let's see. The first former president |
| 0:36.0 | ever criminally indicted in federal court. The first former president ever |
| 0:40.6 | criminally indicted in state court. |
| 0:44.0 | The first former president tried for his crimes and now the first former president held in criminal contempt. So many firsts. As always, let's start with the |
| 0:58.0 | new reporting and then we're going to have a look at the court order that was just entered by Judge Juan Mersharn, the New York |
| 1:06.7 | state court judge presiding over Donald Trump's election interference trial in New York, and we'll see what he had to say. |
| 1:16.0 | But first, this from NBC News headline, Judge in Hush Money Trial threatens Trump with jail after holding him in contempt for violating gag order |
| 1:28.8 | And that article begins |
| 1:30.6 | The judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money case on Tuesday held the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on truth social that he said violated a gag order barring any attacks on jurors |
| 1:46.7 | and witnesses and warn Trump that he could be jailed for further violations. |
| 1:54.0 | Judge Juan Mershahn ruled Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order |
| 2:00.0 | with a fine of $1,000 for each instance. |
| 2:04.6 | He warned in the decision that he would not tolerate further violations of the order |
| 2:09.8 | and said, if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances he would impose an |
| 2:16.7 | incarceratory punishment on the former president. |
| 2:21.4 | Let me translate that. That's Judge Juan Mershahn saying he will put Donald |
| 2:26.6 | Trump's great big orange butt in jail if he keeps it up. |
| 2:33.0 | My editorial addition there. |
| 2:35.0 | The article continues. |
| 2:37.0 | Mershahn said that while he would prefer to impose commensurately larger fines, he instead had to consider whether in some |
| 2:46.1 | instances jail may be a necessary punishment. The gag order prohibits the |
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