'What have we done?': Lawrence examines shocking Trump evidence revealed in trial
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Before the jury filed into the courtroom today to hear testimony in the case of the people of the state of New York versus Donald J Trump, |
| 0:08.0 | Judge Juan Mershahn issued his ruling to the lawyers of what would actually happen to Donald Trump if he were to |
| 0:16.6 | testify in his own defense in this trial. Now of course before the judge issued his |
| 0:22.2 | ruling about what evidence the prosecution would be allowed to use to attack Donald Trump's credibility as a witness, |
| 0:29.0 | there was absolutely no reason to believe Donald Trump was going to actually testify in his own defense. |
| 0:35.6 | Donald Trump is incapable of telling the truth and that would become quickly obvious |
| 0:41.0 | to the jury who would probably find themselves watching Donald Trump commit perjury and probably concluding that they were watching him committing perjury. |
| 0:51.0 | So there really was no chance that Donald Trump was going to testify. But here is what the judge |
| 0:57.9 | ruled the prosecution could bring up if Donald Trump were to take the witness down. |
| 1:04.7 | The judge said that the prosecution could bring up the fact that, quote, |
| 1:10.3 | the defendant was found to have violated executive laws section 63 by |
| 1:15.0 | fraudulently misstating the value of his assets for an economic benefit. |
| 1:19.9 | That's the attorney general's case in New York. And that quote the defendant violated a court order by failing to remove an untrue |
| 1:28.6 | disparaging and personally identifying post about the court's principal law clerk from the |
| 1:36.4 | website Donald J Trump.com. The court fined a defendant $5,000 and the |
| 1:41.8 | prosecution would be allowed to use the fact that, quote, the defendant was found |
| 1:46.3 | to have intentionally violated a court order by making public attacks on the judge's |
| 1:52.4 | law clerk, despite two prior court orders, not to do so, the |
| 1:58.6 | court find the defendant $10,000. |
| 2:02.4 | The judge also ruled that prosecutors would be able to bring up the fact that, quote, |
| 2:07.8 | the defendant was found to have defamed E. Jean Carroll in public statements in 2019 by making false statements with actual |
| 2:17.0 | malice. And that quote, the defendant was found to have defamed E. Jean Carroll in |
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