Trump's 1st Criminal Trial Presents Real Challenges for Trump's Attorneys
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Glenn discusses the three goals of a prosecution's opening statement and the three goals of a defense opening statement. There are always lots of tactical challenges for both the prosecutors and the defense attorneys. But there is one challenge in particular that Trump's attorney's will face, and it's a choice that may end up alienating the jurors,
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. The Trump election interference trial is now underway. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's Glenn with details. |
| 0:21.0 | So friends, after lo these many years of living through |
| 0:26.8 | Donald Trump crimeing through the 2016 presidential campaign. Donald Trump, |
| 0:33.2 | Donald Trump, through four years of his presidency |
| 0:36.7 | and Donald Trump even crime in his post-presidency years. We are about to see his first criminal trial kick off with |
| 0:47.5 | opening statements in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday morning. |
| 0:52.7 | So as we usually do, let's start with the new reporting and then I want to take some time |
| 0:58.0 | talking about opening statements. |
| 1:00.8 | Some of the challenges that prosecutors encounter in opening statements and one |
| 1:06.3 | challenge in particular that they will encounter in this Trump prosecution. |
| 1:12.0 | Some of the challenges that defense attorneys have in opening statements. |
| 1:16.0 | And there is one that I want to focus on after we get through the new reporting that I think involves some real tactical peril for |
| 1:26.4 | Donald Trump's defense attorneys. But let's start with the new reporting. |
| 1:31.2 | This from the Washington Post. |
| 1:34.3 | Headline, opening statements set for Monday |
| 1:37.0 | in Trump's New York Hush Money trial. |
| 1:40.0 | I wish they would stop calling it that. |
| 1:42.5 | It's an election interference trial. |
| 1:45.8 | It's falsifying business records, 34 felony counts. |
| 1:51.4 | Yes, to cover up, hush money payments. Why? To gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential |
| 1:58.9 | election. This is an election interference case and that is how I believe Alvin Bragg's prosecutors |
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