The Trump Trial Is On, and Lordy There Are Transcripts!
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1026
The transcript is in! The first official written record from the first trial of a former President in U.S. history was just released hours before recording, and we dig in for a first look from the first full day of proceedings (Monday April 23rd) to find out which of the 45th president's many misdeeds the court ruled that prosecutors will be allowed to bring up during cross-examination. We also indulge in some dramatic readings of each party's opening statements, and discuss what we can learn from them about the Manhattan DA's case and Trump's defense to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Much more to come!
We then check back on last week's round of Thomas Takes the Bar Exam to see how Thomas did on questions about a thieving magician and a lying philanthropist before turning to this week's challenge: an arsonist who doesn't understand how fire works.
1. People's Sandoval Notice filed 4/17/24
2. Transcript of proceedings in People v. Trump on 4/23/24
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, no associate this firm has ever failed the bar exam. |
| 0:04.4 | No kidding. |
| 0:05.4 | I just know that you were going to kick that bar's butt out of here you know |
| 0:13.4 | you know You come in here with a skull full of mush, you leave thinking like a lawyer. |
| 0:27.0 | My staff has flunked the bar exam six times. |
| 0:34.0 | You graduated from law school six years ago. |
| 0:39.0 | What have you been doing since? |
| 0:40.0 | Studying for the ball. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to opening arguments. The podcast where a comedian takes lawyers to court. Don't take ethics advised from Alan Dershowitz. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 1:00.0 | This is episode 1,00026. Don't touch that dial because this is normally you'd be listening to |
| 1:06.7 | Plant World, but instead it is a numbered episode is episode 1,26 and we'll tell you all about why. |
| 1:15.3 | First off, I'm Thomas Smith. |
| 1:16.5 | That over there is a real life attorney, Matt Cameron, how you doing? |
| 1:19.9 | Thomas, I've never been more excited to read a transcript. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm going to tell you. I'm in a good mood. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, so this whole Trump trial thing, let's let you all in on a few things. |
| 1:28.0 | First off, if you didn't see, there was like a big announcement that they were going to make the trial transcripts available, which is amazing because they're not filming this thing, which, Matt, how do you feel about that? |
| 1:39.7 | Actually, first question. Before the commercial break even, how do you feel about that? |
| 1:43.8 | I mean, okay, I think there should absolutely be cameras in the Supreme Court, but I am a little |
| 1:48.0 | torn about this when jurors could get on camera. If there's a way to protect the jurors, |
| 1:51.5 | I guess I would prefer to have this on camera. |
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