republicans and right-wing media are raging over trump s verdict, vowing vengeance and lyrical retribution, and another state department official resigns in protest of president biden s gaza policy. stacy gilbert joins us. let s do this. donald trump s guilty verdict on all 34 felony carts of falsifying business records comes five months and four days before the most divisive presidential election of our time, and as a jampacked calendar in the final stretch to november. starting with the debate between trump and biden, set for this month, june 27th. two weeks after that on july 11, trump will be back in court for sentencing in his hush money case, trump s charge of falsifying business records, a felony, is punishable by up to four years in prison but legal expert say there s no guarantee that he will get present time, given that this is his first criminal conviction. and for a nonviolent crime. the republican national convention will convene in milwaukee to formally don
this makes him the first us president with a criminal conviction and the first major party candidate to run for office with a felony. mr trump was convicted of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal involving the former porn star, stormy daniels. the verdict handed down just a few hours ago comes after two days of delebrations. the former us president could face up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each count. the trial officially began on april 15th after a lengthy jury selection process. then, over the course of more than six weeks, testimony from mr trump s former business partners, including long time lawyer michael cohen and his accuser stormy daniels, were heard. 12 new yorkjurors deliberated for two days to reach thursday s verdict in which they found him guilty on all 3a felony charges. mr trump will return to the manhattan courtroom onjuly 11th to be sentenced. here s what he said outside the court right after the verdict. our whole coun
system and unprecedented ways. after temporarily freezing a gag order against them, judge tanya chutkan just reinstated, ruling that the order should stay in effect while his lawyers pursue an appeal. while you may ask, even in the very short window when it was on hold donald trump continue to attack people involved in the case. he took to truth social to stand with prosecutors called a threatening message about his former chief of staff, mark meadows. i met so that judge chutkan wrote in her decision with quote almost certainty would violate the order. to be clear, the gag order isn t prohibiting trump from talking about the case, the judge is simply saying that he can t lash out against witnesses and prosecutors. it doesn t sound that unreasonable to me. but trump can t seem to help himself, case in point, minutes after the gag order was reinstated trump attacked another likely witness in the case. his former attorney general, bill barr, trump called him among any other thi
the judge is simply saying that he can t lash out against witnesses and prosecutors. it doesn t sound that unreasonable to me. but trump can t seem to help himself, case in point, minutes after the gag order was reinstated trump attacked another likely witness in the case. his former attorney general, bill barr, trump called him among any other things, lazy, and a loser. trump was upset with barr again a witness in the case, that s what s important here because of some critical comments barr made about am in a recent interview. he s already saying it s about retribution, he s a very petty man, it s all about him, and he s a very, has a fragile ego, something happened to me as a kid and i m not gonna psycho analyze it. every encounter he needs to come out showing the other guy that he s better, it s all about the assertion of his ego. and i think he ll be self indulgent in a new administration, he won t be as effective as i could otherwise be and probably thinks will start m
educators also killed in that mass shooting as they are witnessing a bitter milestone tonight of course, our congratulations to the graduates. and also may the memories of those not on that stage tonight be a blessing. thank you so much for joining me this hour. laura coates live starts right now so another attorney general, another vote to hold him in contempt. but is it symbolic or actually sincere, or is that rhetorical? that s all tonight on this special to our addition of lara coats live well, good. i think everyone i m laura codes, abby phillip has the night off now, remember that saying you can t have it both ways. well, it s applicable tonight for some members of congress who have two very different approaches to whether congressional subpoenas or subpoenas in general are sacred and, whether they re a party in control may have a whole lot to do with their viewpoints the republican controlled house voted today to hold biden s attorney general, merrick garland in cont