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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Judge will impose jail time “if necessary” for Donald Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Judge Merchan reprimands Trump over 10 gag order violations. Plus, Jen Psaki joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss working in the White House post-Trump. Adam Klasfeld, Andrew Weissmann, and Neal Katyal also join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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They wrote it down. The conspiracy was written out on paper.

0:06.0

That is rare in criminal prosecutions.

0:10.0

Prosecutors are usually left explaining to juries that, you know, criminal conspirators don't

0:16.2

write it all down, but that is what they did in the Trump office on Fifth Avenue and in the White House. Today,

0:25.8

Donald Trump's jury was shown the handwritten conspiracy to pay back

0:31.8

Michael Cohen for paying $130,000 to

0:34.6

porn star Stormy Daniels to purchase her silence

0:38.9

before the presidential election about what she has since described as one very quick sexual encounter with

0:45.8

Donald Trump. Donald Trump's financial mastermind convicted felon

0:50.2

Alan Weisleburg put the conspiracy in his handwriting on Michael Cohen's

0:57.5

bank statement and then another financial officer in the Trump shop put the whole thing in his handwriting on Trump company

1:05.9

stationary. That handwritten description of the conspiracy called for Michael Cohen

1:11.4

to be paid $35,000 a month as reimbursement for his payments to Stormy Daniels.

1:17.0

And the final handwriting in the conspiracy presented to the jury today were Donald Trump's signatures on those $35,000 checks to Michael Colin.

1:28.8

It didn't really matter much what today's witness Jeffrey McConney told the jury because the handwriting

1:36.6

told the story but Jeffrey McConney did confirm that that is Alan Weisilberg's

1:41.3

handwriting on Michael Cohen's bank statement?

1:44.0

Question, do you recognize this document?

1:46.0

Answer, yes.

1:47.0

Question, what is it?

1:48.0

Answer, this is the bank statement that Alan gave me to put in the files.

1:52.0

Question, is there handwriting on this document?

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