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Judge Merchan: I Have Nothing BUT Contempt for This Trump

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Politics, Legal, Liberal, Supremecourt, Harvard, News, Atheist, Opinion, Law

4.33.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

OA1029: Trump Trial, Week 2, Part 1!

Lordy, there are tapes! Our special coverage of People v. Trump continues, now with readings from Juilliard-trained, Tony-winning actors Thomas and Lydia Smith! (none of that is true except possibly our names.)

Donald Trump is now the first U.S. President ever to be held in contempt of court. Exactly how criminal is "criminal contempt" in New York, and what does this mean for the rest of the trial? Also, Matt takes us on a fascinating mini-dive on the National Enquirer. It has a very interesting history you might not be familiar with. Then start getting into the trial fireworks. Much more to come! Probably at least 3 parts.

1) People v. Trump Transcripts

2) Justice Merchan's contempt order

3) AMI non-prosecution agreement

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0:00.0

I hate the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.

0:23.0

This is not a First Amendment thing.

0:26.0

I printed out a sign especially for him using his favorite font, Garamand.

0:30.0

Who has a favorite font? I read on the internet that it's not against the law for me to go to the bathroom while the

0:37.0

Fest and seatbelt sign is on, so...

0:39.0

Seatbelt sign is on.

0:40.0

But is it against the law though? All right, so you may have noticed that this episode is late being the

0:48.0

planned Trump trial slash T3B midweek episode.

0:51.0

And I have to say I'm kind of going to throw Matt under the bus

0:54.5

slightly here with all the love in the world the plan was for Matt to go through the

1:00.0

transcript and grab parts of it for us to read and then also do analysis.

1:06.0

And I think that Matt is maybe such a fast reader, this is incredibly fast reader, I think he

1:11.8

maybe doesn't understand how long that takes because

1:15.4

just now keep in mind this is for one episode just the transcript readings let alone

1:21.7

any analysis like just the readings, two hours, two hours long, of just readings, like literally just doing transcripts.

1:32.0

So you can imagine that the turnaround for these is like hours.

1:35.3

The turnaround to try to get the trial episode done with T3B

1:39.2

is literally, I don't know, six hours maybe,

1:41.9

and that includes like recording it and so I don't think you

1:46.4

need to be an advanced math whiz to know that that does not work and so first I thought

1:52.0

just delaying it a day would let me get it done

1:54.4

but it's such a monstrosity if you can imagine editing to make all that work and

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