Put Up or Shut Up: Gag Order Expanded as Trump Posts Bond

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Guest host Michael Steele sits in for Jen this week, addressing Trump's vitriolic rhetoric targeting Judge Juan Merchan, who just expanded an existing gag order on Trump to protect family members of the court in the hush money case in New York. Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Mary McCord, and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner join Steele to discuss the breaking development and later, former assistant attorney general for New York, Tristan Snell, gives his analysis on Trump’s $175M bond, which he posted late in the evening. Former Obama campaign manager, David Plouffe, joins to talk about how Republicans critical of Trump could benefit the Biden campaign. Florida State Rep. Anna Eskamani of talks about State's Supreme Court's dual rulings, putting abortion on the ballot in November while upholding a draconian abortion ban.

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0:00.0	Good evening from Washington.
0:09.8	I'm Michael Steele and from my friend Jen Saki.
0:12.7	Jen is wrapping up a well-deserved vacation, and we'll be back with you next week.
0:17.8	We have a lot to cover tonight, so just settle in, right? But I do want to begin with a
0:23.6	headline. Trump employs images of violence as political fuel for re-election fight. Now, you
0:29.9	might be thinking, yeah, I saw this over the weekend. After all, Donald Trump posted a video
0:35.5	on his social media site depicting President Biden with his hands and feet tied up in the back of a pickup truck.
0:43.0	And at the same time, on that same site, Trump not only lashed out at the judge presiding over his New York criminal trial, but also at the judge's daughter.
0:52.8	So, yeah, I'd say he's employing images of violence in his reelection fight right now.
0:58.8	Folks, that headline is not from over the weekend.
1:02.6	It is from September of 2020, almost four full years ago.
1:07.9	And the fact that it very well could have been published today should serve as a stark
1:12.8	reminder that Donald Trump has always been this guy. He's always been the guy who glorifies
1:20.5	political violence, who embraces it to rev up his base. He's always been the guy who
1:27.0	operates outside the typical norms in politics,
1:29.9	and business and law, who stresses, bends, and twists those systems into pretzels any chance he gets.
1:38.2	And he's always been the guy who breaches protocol more times than he's abided by it.
1:44.6	But just because he's done all these things before doesn't mean we should normalize it or even be
1:51.6	numb to it.
1:53.2	And Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg sure isn't, becoming numb to it.
1:57.7	No, he's not.
1:59.1	Because late today, District Attorney Bragg once again urged the court
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