It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Donald Trump has contradicted himself in public and online for decades.

Glenn says that might come back to haunt him in court.

So friends, as we head into week two of the testimony in Donald Trump's first criminal trial,

his first of four criminal trials. Let's talk about the three ways that Donald

Trump's own words will not just be used against him, but how they will sink him. And let's start with a few

observations made in a just published New York Times piece. Headline, Trump's trial could bring a rarity, consequences for his words.

The former president has spent decades spewing thousands and thousands of words, sometimes contradicting himself.

That tendency is now working against him in his Manhattan criminal case.

And that article begins, so that's not true.

That's not true.

The judge in control of Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial had just cut off the former president's lawyer, Todd Blanch.

Mr. Blanch had been in the midst of defending a social media post in which his client, Donald Trump,

wrote that a statement that had been public for years was just found. Mr. Blanch had already acknowledged during the Tuesday

hearing that Mr. Trump's post was false. In other words, Donald Trump was lying his ass off, but the Judge Juan

Rashan wasn't satisfied. Quote, I need to understand, Justice Mershahn said, glaring down at the lawyer from the bench, what I am dealing with.

The question of what is true, or at least what can be proven, is at the heart of any trial.

But this particular defendant,

accused by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal to gain unfair advantage in a presidential

election.

Yes, that is again, my editorial addition, but that is what is at the heart of these criminal

charges, Donald Trump cheating in an election, or what he would call election interference, the article

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