Trump Fined & Weinstein Overturned (with Joyce Vance)

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In an excerpt from a new episode of the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss a Manhattan judge’s decision to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt and to fine him $9,000 for violating a gag order in his criminal trial. They also discuss the testimony by the prosecution’s first trial witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who detailed the “catch-and-kill” scheme used to suppress salacious stories about Trump during the 2016 election. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce further discuss Trump’s Manhattan trial, including the testimony by Trump’s former assistant Rhona Graff, and a financial executive who worked for Michael Cohen, Gary Farro. They also break down the decision by New York’s highest court to overturn disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 sex crimes conviction on the basis that some evidence was improperly allowed to be presented at trial, and the Supreme Court oral arguments on Trump’s immunity defense in the election subversion case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. To become a member of CAFE Insider head to cafe.com/insider. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Joyce Vance here.
0:03.6	The first full week of Trump's Manhattan Criminal Trial is complete.
0:08.0	The first witness, former National Inquirer publisher David Pekker, testified about the catch and kill scheme used to
0:14.9	suppress salacious stories about Trump. Meanwhile the judge held Trump in
0:19.4	contempt and fined him $9,000 for violating a gag order.
0:24.0	In other news, New York's highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein's 20-20 sex crimes
0:29.2	conviction.
0:30.6	They ruled that testimony of prior bad acts witnesses should not have been allowed at trial.
0:36.0	And the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Trump's immunity defense in the election
0:40.4	subversion case brought by Jack Smith. A majority of the justices
0:45.1	signaled that they might endorse some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution
0:49.7	for Trump. Preet Barra and I discuss all that and more on the Cafe Insider podcast.
0:55.8	If you're a member of Cafe Insider, head over to the Insider feed or click the link in the show
1:00.6	notes of this podcast.
1:02.4	Stay tuned
1:02.8	listeners. Keep listening here for in our discussion. And to become a
1:06.6	member of Cafe Insider, head to cafe.com slash insider. You can try the
1:12.3	membership for just one dollar for one month.
1:15.0	That's Cathay.com slash insider.
1:18.5	Now on to the show.
1:20.0	Since the dawn of the Twitter era people have written the following thing in their
1:29.5	bio I don't know if they write it all the time now, but I've seen it a lot and it is the
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