And we understand that the prosecutor has wrapped their Opening Statement . Reporter the prosecution after 45 minutes and 30 seconds has wrapped up their Opening Statements to this jury here, making it clear, quote, Donald Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying Business Records in the first degree. The prosecutor telling the jury, tune out the noise, focus on the facts. Focus on the logical inference that follows from those facts. Focus on the evidence, listen to that testimony. At that point, Todd Blanche, Donald Trumps lead attorney then stood up and has now just begun to make the Opening Statements. I want to read you the beginning here. Good morning, your honor, President Trump did not commit any crimes. The manhattan d. A. s office should have never brought this case. He is just beginning these Opening Statements so i want to make sense of them here before we go further. We should make it clear here that Todd Blanche indicated he was prepared to deliver about 20 minutes of Ope
Scheme. We think its illegal. Its not. The national enquirer, thats their business model. Theyve been doing catch and kill for a long time. The issue here again is how the Trump Campaign or trump himself and the organization went about documenting it and whether or not the issue is going to be was this really a Campaign Contribution . How old it have been . Should the mon any have been reimbursed to Michael Cohen through Trump Campaign funds. If you follow the logic of the case, thats essentially what the d. A. Is saying. Temidayo, weve been told that the prosecution throughout the course of this trial will present a lot of detail that hasnt been made public. Weve gotten a lot of the details from Michael Cohen himself related to these payments. In fact, Michael Cohen went to jail for his role in the payments. How much of his legal history related to that federal case in
Harris at this moment, former president trumps criminal trial, the defense has wrapped up its opening statements to the jury. The nations 45th president , his Lead Attorney told jurors the former president is innocent. He claims trump committed no crimes and Alvin Bragg should never have brought this trial. On the other side, prosecutors called this Election Fraud and fullblown election conspiracy. These are all biden products. Everybody knows it. Im here instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania And Georgia and lots of other places campaigning. Its very unprepared. This is a witch hunt. It comes out of washington in coordination with washington, everything including the d. A. s office. Its in coordination with washington. I want people to understand that. This is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the
The case that these charges should never have even been brought against Donald Trump in the first place. Again, one other time note is that weve got just a little over an Hour Left of the trial here today. Trial will conclude at 12 30 p. M. Eastern time. This has been an intense already hour out of the gate here, and now the defense is beginning to open with their statements to the jury. 45 minutes, 30 seconds for the prosecution and the defense has indicated theyll have about 20 minutes in their opening statement, and again, let me read that first line from Donald Trumps lawyer. Good morning, your honor. President trump did not commit any crimes. The manhattan d. A. s office should never have brought this case. Barbara first question to you about just wrapping the prosecutions opening statements. 45 minutes 30 seconds. Your take on the amount of time they spent laying out their case in this very consequential and historic trial . Yeah, i always thought shorter is better because the lo
Mika, this is about money and how much of it e. Jean carroll is going to walk away with. Both to compensate her for the loss of her reputation, but even perhaps more importantly, to former President Trump, to punish former President Trump for continuing to say those same things about her. Theres so much going on. We have a judge ordering former President Trump to pay the New York Times and a couple of journalists legal fees. Also, Fulton County D. A. Fani willis over the weekend defended her choice to pick special Prosecutor Nathan wade to be part of the Election Interference Case against Donald Trump and others. Last week, one of former trumps codefendants filed a motion alleging an improper relationship between the district attorney anwade. Speaking in atlanta yesterday, willis never mentioned the allegations directly and questioned the racial motivation aimed at her in the attacks. I appointed three special counsel, as is my right to do,