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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 04-16-2024-222129

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone you know with Donald Trump's

0:01.7

how's money case now in jury selection what is normally a difficult

0:05.4

and painstaking process on its own has some extra external pressures on it.

0:10.0

Case in point.

0:12.0

My plea is to the people of Manhattan that may sit on his trial.

0:18.6

Please do the right thing for this country.

0:21.3

Everybody's allowed to have their political viewpoints, but the law is

0:24.3

supposed to be blind and no respect to of persons. This is a trash case. There is no

0:30.0

crime here and if there is any potential for a verdict they should vote not guilty.

0:35.5

That was Republican congressman and Trump Trump vice presidential shortlister

0:39.9

Byron Donald just yesterday. Despite having no involvement in the case, Donald was

0:44.0

using his platform to try to influence the jury from outside the courtroom.

0:47.8

Conservative media personality, Clay Travis, did something similar.

0:51.6

I want a step further, right into his followers on social media

0:54.7

that, quote, if you're a Trump supporter in New York City

0:57.5

who is a part of the jury pool,

0:59.2

do everything you can to get seated on the jury

1:01.8

and then refuse to convict as a matter of principle,

1:04.8

dooming the case via hung jury.

1:07.0

It's the most patriotic thing you could possibly do.

1:10.7

The patriotism is questionable, the illegality is not.

1:15.0

This case is not about politics.

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