Morning Joe 5/31/24
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes |
| 0:15.8 | to the courtroom doors by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor. Many voices out there, the only voice that |
| 0:28.4 | matters is the voice of the |
| 0:35.0 | voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. |
| 0:34.0 | Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, |
| 0:36.0 | speaking yesterday following the historic conviction |
| 0:40.0 | of former President Donald Trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trial. |
| 0:47.4 | Trump becomes the first former U.S. President in American history to be convicted of a crime. The verdict was read just |
| 0:54.4 | around 5 p.m. in a New York City courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for |
| 1:00.0 | roughly 9.5 hours over two days. |
| 1:03.0 | Each of the 34 felony counts is associated with a falsified business record pertaining |
| 1:09.0 | to Trump's reimbursement of his former attorney and |
| 1:13.3 | fixer Michael Cohen for a hush money payment |
| 1:16.3 | to adult film actress Stormy Daniels |
| 1:19.1 | during the 2016 presidential campaign |
| 1:22.2 | to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter |
| 1:25.2 | She says she had with Trump back in 2006. |
| 1:28.7 | Trump has denied her claim. |
| 1:31.0 | Sentencing is set for July 11th, just four days before the Republican National Convention |
| 1:36.8 | begins in Milwaukee. The maximum sentence for falsification of business records is four years in prison, but incarceration |
| 1:46.5 | is not a mandatory sentence, it will be Judge Juan Mershahn, who ultimately decides the punishment. |
| 1:54.8 | Along with Joe, Willie, and Me, |
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