Opening Statements in Trump's First Criminal Case

Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Donald Trump's first criminal trial (of four criminal trials) started in earnest on Monday with opening statements and it turned out to be something of a lopsided affair. Glenn reviews some of the points made by the prosecution and some of the . . . curious arguments offered by Donald Trump's defense attorney.

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0:00.0	It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Juries in Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York got a glimpse of what's ahead
0:20.6	in the case with some revealing opening statements.
0:23.4	Here's Gwen with details.
0:25.4	So friends, Donald Trump's first criminal trial opened with both a bang and a whimper and we're going to talk about both. We're going to
0:36.8	look at some of the prosecution's opening statement and then we're going to have a
0:42.1	look at some of what the defense attorney said in
0:45.5	his opening statement. But as always let's start with the new reporting. This from
0:52.1	the guardian headline,
0:54.6	Trump's Hush Money Trial, key takeaways
0:57.6	from opening statements.
0:59.8	And that article begins,
1:01.7	Donald Trump was confronted on Monday with the unsavory details of his
1:06.8	alleged attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election by covering up hush money payments to the adult film star
1:16.0	Stormy Daniels as the first criminal trial for a former US president got
1:21.5	underway in New York.
1:24.0	Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records,
1:29.2	where the hush money payments were recorded as legal expenses to cover up the affair just weeks before the election.
1:37.0	Here's some key takeaways.
1:39.0	One, prosecutors immediately focused on the 2016 election.
1:45.0	The Manhattan District Attorney's Office sketched out from the start of their opening statements
1:50.0	that Trump committed one crime, the falsification of records,
1:53.8	in furtherance of a second crime, to violate campaign finance laws.
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