Boston the fog of Todays Supreme Court news is the hard fact that donald trump is still scheduled to go to trial In Manhattan On March 25th to Face Criminal Charges in his first Criminal Trial, charges that he tried to effect the results of the 2016 president ial election i by making Hush Money Payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who will likely become one of the star witnesses against donald trump in that trial, a witness who even Donald Trumps followers will have no problem understanding what she describes donald trump did with her alone in a hotel room while his wife was pregnant. And when she describes how donald trump delivered his Hush Money Payments to her. And i think r. That the Supreme Court did today is helping donald trump get out of the crushing weight of half A Billion Dollars of civil judgments he is now facing in new york. Today, donald trump said cihe i not rich enough to pay those judgments, after previously testifying under oath that he is rich enough to pay those
hi everyone. happy friday. it has been building all week long, you can feel it, the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today the new york times is naming names. new york times today reveals the workers who removed boxes caring white house documents ahead of a meeting between don trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet and that they, quote, moved the boxes into the room before a search of a storage room that same day when evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump, who was in discussions with mr. brat of the fbi. he set up a meeting the next. day prosecutors have been trying to determine whether trump had documents moved around mar-a-lago or sought to conceal some of them after the subpoena. part of their interest is in trying to determine whether documents removed before corker
long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith s evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, the new york times is naming names. the new york times reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet, and that they moved the boxes into the room before search of the storage room that sam day by evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump. for trump. this brand new reporting, which we should mention, has not been independently verified by nbc news, raises a whole host of questions when viewed in terms of whether it helps to answer essential questions in the case. did donald trump clearly and flagrantly commit obstruction of justice? as jack smith barrels to an indictment of the president, we h
lawyer has receipts, and that special counsel jack smith has them too. the guardian reporting trump s lawyer evan corcoran warned trump about retaining classified documents, which could be significant in the probe. corcoran memorialized the warning in nearly 50 pages of note described to the guardian with three people with knowledge of their contents. the notes being produced to a federal grand jury after an appeals court allowed the attorney/client and work product privileges between corcoran and trump to be pierced because judges believed trump might have used corcoran s legal advice in furtherance of a crime. prosecutors have fixated on trump s valet, walt nalta after he told the d.a. trump told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena. that does not look good for trump. meanwhile, trump s legal team is thinning out. one of his top lawyers, tim parlatoe resigning, and siting problems with lawyer boris epshteyn. epstein is particularly close t
thanks for sticking around. it s friday. we have a lot going on a major show the d.a. who made history by indicting donald trump is under a lot of scrutiny. he has a very interesting record, a record that includes beating trump in court previously did you know that? we have been working on one of our special reports around here, and we are going to air it for you live tonight on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. that s coming up we begin on the federal side of thing where is the criminal probe of trump continues he is a criminal defendant in new york but the federal case involves a star witness who was also targeted for harm or assassination by then sitting president donald trump when i say those words out loud here, it almost sounds like extreme or hard to remember, but that is really what happened you might think if you were defending yourself in the case where you re accused of causing harm to your own vice president, you d want him to testify and say on your be