The GOP’s Courtroom Convention
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 15th. You can't bring a courtroom to a campaign, but you can bring a campaign to a courtroom. |
| 0:06.0 | We start here. |
| 0:08.0 | As Michael Cohen testifies, some of the nation's most notable Republicans show up in court |
| 0:14.4 | with Donald Trump and at one point they actually taped a little fundraising |
| 0:19.0 | appeal inside the courthouse but is the price of becoming VP that you now have to question the criminal justice the leave. We feel helpless despite all the skills that we brought. |
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| 0:51.3 | From ABC News, this is start here. I'm Brad Milky. |
| 0:55.0 | In most trials you got the defendant sitting with their lawyers right at the table behind them might be family maybe some close friends |
| 1:08.6 | They usually aren't though a ton of people looking to align themselves with someone accused of a felony. |
| 1:14.2 | And yet yesterday in Manhattan, as former President Donald Trump prepared to face day two of |
| 1:18.8 | testimony from his one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, Trump had a ton of allies in the room, not even just people |
| 1:26.0 | from his personal life. We're talking about lawmakers, rivals in the primaries, even the top-ranking |
| 1:31.4 | Republican in the country right now, the Speaker of the House. |
| 1:34.8 | All of it served to highlight something we have never seen before in this country, a former |
| 1:38.6 | president not only on trial, but using his own trial as a political rallying point inside the courthouse. |
| 1:45.9 | ABC's Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Carl was in the courtroom for all this. |
| 1:49.3 | John, first off, the Michael Cohen testimony, what did we hear from Cohen? |
| 1:53.4 | Well, you had the cross-examination, the first part of it anyway, of Cohen, which really |
| 1:59.2 | presented the possibility for real fireworks, because of course Cohen is the central witness in this case |
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