Judge Merchan prepares for possibility of Trump testifying
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. Well he's got to listen to his attorneys. It's not as much |
| 0:08.6 | what he wants to do. We know he wants to testify. He is willing. It's pretty |
| 0:12.4 | quick and it would be a pretty short testimony as far as the questions |
| 0:16.1 | that would need to be asked because he had no part in this. |
| 0:19.1 | We all know that Trump's promise to testify was just dishonest bravado and now that the |
| 0:24.2 | defense has begun its case it's becoming increasingly clear that Trump will not be |
| 0:29.7 | called. Plus a whole lot of things happen while I was on vacation including the news |
| 0:35.1 | that an upside-down distress flag flew over Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito's home. |
| 0:40.3 | Tonight I'll explain why Alito and others with the mega grievance mentality |
| 0:45.0 | are in such distress that they think they need a Trump dictatorship |
| 0:50.0 | to solve their problems. But we begin tonight with these five words from the prosecution and Donald Trump's |
| 1:01.1 | hush money election interference trial. |
| 1:04.0 | Your Honor, the people rest. |
| 1:06.8 | After 15 days and 21 witnesses, the prosecution handed over the reins |
| 1:10.9 | to the defense who began making their case this afternoon |
| 1:14.4 | beginning with testimony from Robert Costello a criminal lawyer with ties to |
| 1:19.8 | Rudy Giuliani. Costello was in talks to represent Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen in 2018, |
| 1:26.2 | as Cohen faced federal indictment for taking out the very helock loan at issue in this case, |
| 1:32.0 | the one he used to pay off Stormy Daniels for the |
| 1:34.1 | benefit of the Trump presidential campaign, which the Trump campaign then lied |
| 1:38.1 | about in their business records. Within 15 minutes of being on the stand, |
| 1:41.6 | Judge Juan Marshon lost his patience with |
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