New York Prosecutors Ask Judge Merchan to Hold Trump in Criminal Contempt.
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has violated the gag order imposed by Judge Merchan in his New York criminal prosecution. Trump has repeatedly violated the gag order - talking about and endangering the witnesses in the case.
Now NY District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors have filed a motion formally asking Judge Merchan to hold Trump in criminal contempt and fine him. However, they are also asking the judge to put Trump on notice that any future violations will land him in jail for up to 30 days, the maximum allowed for each act of contempt.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. It looks like Donald Trump will be the first American president to be held in criminal contempt of court. |
| 0:22.0 | Here's Glenn with new details. |
| 0:25.0 | So friends, Donald Trump is breaking all kinds of new ground for former presidents. |
| 0:30.0 | He's the first former president who was criminally indicted in state court. |
| 0:36.0 | First former president who was criminally indicted in federal court. |
| 0:40.0 | First former president who was held in civil contempt twice by Judge |
| 0:47.1 | N. Goron in his New York civil fraud case, and now Donald Trump is about to become the first former |
| 0:55.2 | president ever held in criminal contempt. You know friends I would say Donald |
| 1:01.1 | Trump behaves like a petulan child, but that would be an insult to |
| 1:05.0 | petulant children. |
| 1:07.8 | Let's start with the new reporting and then let's have a look at New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg's new court filing asking |
| 1:16.2 | the presiding Judge Juan Mershahn to hold Donald Trump in criminal contempt. First the reporting, this from the Guardian, headline |
| 1:26.9 | Trump faces contempt motion after social media post about New York trial. |
| 1:32.3 | And that article begins media post about New York trial. |
| 1:33.2 | And that article begins, about an hour after day one of Donald Trump's criminal trial |
| 1:38.8 | in Manhattan closed, the former president published the first of what would be a series of posts on Truth |
| 1:46.8 | Social about his disdain for the trial, specifically his required attendance. |
| 1:54.8 | The Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a motion in papers made public on Tuesday |
| 2:00.8 | to hold Trump in contempt of court for violating a partial gag order in the case. |
| 2:07.0 | Prosecutor said that Trump had already violated his gag order three times, posting about the witnesses Michael Cohen and |
| 2:15.8 | Stormy Daniels on social media. They asked the judge to find Trump 3,000 dollars |
| 2:22.1 | for the violations. |
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