Explained: The most misunderstood twist in the charges against Donald Trump
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- The jury in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial in New York have to ask themselves a series of questions on their way to arriving at a verdict in the case, with the final step being less prescribed than many people are accustomed to seeing, and consequently a lot of people are misunderstanding how it works. MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin and former prosecutor Duncan Levin explain why it's simpler than it sounds.
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#Trump #jury #hushmoney
Thank you. Your explanation of the charges and the deliberation process is best I’ve seen so far. 💎
trump isn't arguing he's innocent, he's arguing he has the right to be a criminal
Obviously, Donald has a limited vocabulary to argue with 😂
Well he's been at it for decades, so....
He argues both.
That TDS fever has given you hallucinations.
Nobody cares. America wants Trump. Say NO to Sloppy joe.
20 years ago, that's the last time a Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote.
They steal supreme court seats too. Then their stolen court says they can steal Congress too.
joes 40 year high inflation will change that.
Yeah, without the EC the Republicans would have a hard time winning.
@@kelperdude👈
Takes his Kool-aid intravenously.
@@sassysaint3096 And probably pays Von Schitzinpants for the honor. 🤣🤣
It Does NOT matter that trump WAS A FORMER PRESIDENT IF THE UNITED STATES!!! trump IS "DEFENDANT" trump in this trial!!!
This is the proof under a conspiracy that he scammed his way into the white House or he woulda never been a president and we never woulda had the Trump or maga years infecting our government.
He is CITIZEN now.
Agree! if he's a John Doe its a slam dunk!!....if they give the ex president deference, the law could fail!!
@@peterwainwright5994*sigh
Be careful what you wish for...
How does section 17-152 NOT affect Biden???
It doesnt........... yet.
Political Persecution is a thing.
I find violating the tax law to be a no-brainer. Deductions of business expense need to be business expenses. Nothing deducted on the taxes was a legitimate cost of doing business. Fraud.
Just as easy to determine was violating the $2700 campaign finance contribution.
@@heemlo649The deduction was in Donald Trump’s company’s NY and Federal tax returns.
Yeah, I was surprised that commentators were talking about the tax fraud as if it was weak because Cohen was paying more tax than necessary (repayment disguised as income requires income and other taxes be paid) but legal services for a business can often be tax deductible and I would be shocked if Trump didn't claim the fees as deductible.
@@heemlo649 oh ffs, if it's claimed as an expense (which legal fees are) it's deducted. That's accounting 101 stuff.
@@heemlo649 Different crime Donald Trump has already been found guilty of (two months ago). The falsified ledgers were part of the Trump Organisation’s tax filings.
GUILTY & PRISON.
Not guilty and no prison.
@@jonathandnicholson 😂 good comeback MAGA cult member. How much of your pay check are your sending to pay for Trump’s legal fees? 😂
@sophiaestella5611 Tell me is the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust an enterprise?
I hope you never try to run a business in New York....
By the way, Trump will still win the Presidency.... even from a cell.
Thank you for this clarity!
This just made me leave the democratic party. I am now republican
No great loss be prepared for frumpy loss in November
@@WayneRoberts-x7lTell me who lost again? 😂😂😂🖕🏾
@@WayneRoberts-x7lhow you feeling now?
ALL BOGUS CHARGES!!! 😡😡😡😡😡
Corruption at its best
I am again and again amazed how bad the US justice system is.
The jury does not have a written copy of ALL instructions and ALL evidence presented but they must remember all by memory!?
Are you joking!
You should be more amazed by how uninformed you are. Nobody said they have to "do it all by memory". That was your stupidity showing.
They can, and did, ask for a repeat for some or all the directions. It might be better that they have someone familiar with legalese read the directions to them, rather than their arguing during their deliberations about what some segment of the directions (and potentially wasting a lot of time).
@@karenferrell-white5387 that's just it. The law in New York is so any questions regarding instructions go to the judge, the person who wrote them. Versus jorurs with no legal knowledge making their own interpretation and debating amongst themselves.
People that pretend not to understand this are just making excuses and spreading lies.
@@jacobbaran Exactly.
You have been watching the wrong trials or blatantly missing the jury requests.
Great show, as always, and really good guests. Thanks for explaining the Choose Your Own Adventure, and why they didn't get a copy of the instructions.
It’s ridiculous that they don’t get the instructions. They always get them where I live in Texas.
While you're all doing this you forgot to charge him with a crime!!! 🤦🏾♂️
Joined Jul 22, 2023 Isn’t a crime, but IS an indicator on the Obvious🐿Chipmunk Checklist.
So it's like pick a crime any crime?
Let’s hope that “Bone Spurs” don’t stop him from going to jail
Doubtful but his age might earn him some sympathy by the courts. I'd hope not. breaking laws is breaking laws no matter what the law breakers station in life is. Justice matters.
if i were chosen for jury duty, put on a jury, went through the entire trial, and then told in deliberation i would have to just remember 53 pages of instructions in order to make a decision about someone’s freedom, i would freak out! i’m not capable of retaining that kind of information, and the whole thing just seems insane to me. how is that a thing?
poor baby.
@@davidcleveland-yv6my What a strange response. You sound like a person who is very young.
@@Sarcasticron at heart
Those instructions seems like the jurors are righting doctorate exams😂
It definitely fits with the rest of the trial shenanigans
Well, Senior gave that story about Ted Cruz's dad to prevent ted cruz from becoming potus potential
Well explained. Looking forward to Trump losing, again
Donald Trump has already won the election 😊
I'm shocked the guy who cheated on Eric's mom with Tiffany's mom and then cheated on her mom with the woman he cheated on in this case wasn't more warm and fuzzy.
This is the core of the guy's beliefs - he does whatever he wants without any consequence to him.
Seems like the perfect candidate for Putler. Trump is the Antichrist.
If 17-152 is being brought into play….why isn’t the ENTIRE democrats party up in the dock…..???😂 ah double standards…love em. Trump will still win
"Conspiracy to prevent election" you say..... ??? What is happening to Trump in this moment right now?
Exactly! The only thing that makes pain, stormy and falsifying the business records a crime is if he did it to cover up another crime. But then the jury instructions say that they don’t have to agree on what that second crime is. That is completely an absolutely absurd. That’s never going to, hold up in appeal. This is obvious that they had to literally tie themselves in a pretzel and do some major gymnastics to create this into a crime. Otherwise, it was an expired misdemeanor end of story. That’s exactly what they’re doing right now. Exactly what they’re accusing him of is what they’re doing Marxist 101 communism 101. Do what you’re accusing the other guy of doing
We don't know wat was unlawful it just has to be unlawful in their head?
Why in the world wouldn’t the jury have those instructions in the deliberation room???
We had them for a state superior court case here in Cali… our decision was based on the EXACT wording of the instruction.
Weird quirk of NY law.
@jennaxoxox4821 some of us are auditory learners and some are visual. Time for NY to change this rule.
must be to prevent one juror coloring or parsing down evidence? maybe?
Those instructions seems like the jurors are righting doctorate exams😂
@@ROCKY-w5r nah...probly wronging em....huh huh...get it huh?
And this is what America has become!!
Soo what was he convicted of?
Apparently, they didn’t have to agree on what he was guilty of. Because it can only be a crime if he falsified business records in attempt to hide another crime. But they say the jury doesn’t have to agree on what the second crime was. None of that makes sense. Like he gave the example of murder. The jury in a murder trial saying he’s guilty of murder but we don’t agree on the weapon used. Now, how would that work? That makes absolutely zero sense. Every trial, you have to agree on both that a crime was committed, what the crime was & the means of the crime. They can’t say it was three different crimes that he tried to cover up. It has to be unanimous. Especially because this whole case is contingent on, it can only be a crime if he was covering up a second crime. This judge gave incorrect jury instruction because they knew there would not be a unanimous verdict. To me this just shows the corruption that’s involved in this case.
I served on the jury of a civil damages case and volunteered to be foreperson because I had a lot of experience facilitating meetings and finding consensus solutions to problems. My guess is that in this case one of the two lawyers on the jury was elected foreperson and will be able to lead the jury to a consensus agreement on verdicts on the 34 counts.
Sounds like “Guilty!” To moi.
Dear Lisa Rubin, I wish you could draw us the diagram of the crime! 🙋♀️😁❤
she could put it into pictures for you if that would help. emojis perhaps?
No one can figure out what the supposed "crime" is.
Hey all. Just found a fly in the ointment. ALL of the underlying "crimes" in the trial were ALSO OUTSIDE OF THEIR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. So legally they cannot be used to elevate the alleged misdemeanors to felonies. And the misdemeanors are time barred SO the WHOLE CASE IS MOOT!
Liberal crazies will cry in November.
Nice try, Traitor! Is your name Vladimir?
@@RodgerHammond-z6l Hold your horses its not yet November! MAGA TRUMP 2024 A woman is an adult female lol
Lisa rubin really working overtime
The biggest twist is how they took a misdemeanor that the statute of limitations has run out on and morphed it into a federal crime.
Cope harder, incel
Orange narcissist with 🐷 👀
Still better than BUYden!
@@dianepanfil7297 In what way is trump good for anybody other than Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the filthy-rich far right movers and shakers running (or rather, preventing the running) of the US?
@@dianepanfil7297 Yer mother wasn't better than Biden....
Get rid of slow bad- en
🇺🇸 TRUMP 🇺🇸
🎉 ❤ 🎉
Better than Biden only if you’re brainwashed by Qanon Russian propaganda/Fox news. Putler helped him in 2016 because he’s a Russian asset. The antichrist.
This really does not do a good job explaining it...
Meanwhile, at compensation- for- mushroom-stump-tower, Waltine Nauta is changing the diapers again!!! Toooo much McDonald's!!! Stinky don!! Sleepy don. Nap time
Diapers Don, biggest looser !!
They're expected to memorize 55 pages of instructions? Why don't they get a copy, that makes no sense.
Guilty...
If trump is found guilty he should be held in jail until he can post bail for an appeal ... bail set at 500 million after all he is a billionaire
I am sure New Yorkers would appreciate the violent criminals and all the thieves running around the city without bail....oh wait. They vote for that type of corruption. This is why New York is finished unless TRUMP wins in November. Then even though they may not deserve it...he will fix the sh*$ show New York has become.
Y’all really hate this man so much you’re willing to forgo the constitution 😂
What I'm getting out of this is it would be very difficult to argue that Trump was innocent.
That’s the same thing I’m getting out of this. And the jury instructions are bogus anyways, because they have to be unanimous in the charge & the reason. They can’t just be unanimous in the fact that it was a crime they have to be unanimous on the reason for the crime. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense you can’t say he was guilty but say you don’t agree on what crime was committed. That would never get through an appeal. Just like the example he was giving what weapon was used in a murder. So the jury says they agree he committed a murder, but they disagree on the weapon used that would never fly in a criminal conviction. Never. So he’s proving how ridiculous this is in his own example.
What on earth did he do to get skin like that?! For someone who claims to be teetotal he sure looks like a heavy drinker!
Pig eyes.
Bronzer they say
A lifetime of fast food and zero physical exertion. He thinks riding in a golf cart is exercise.
Trump apparently has some pretty wacky ideas about how the human body works. For example, that everyone has a finite store of "energy" as if we're all some kind of walking battery.
Decades of drug use, will do that to you.
Remember him and Ronnie Jackson turned the WH into a pill mill. Some amphetamines were dispensed by the thousands along with opioids and pain killers.
This is my only criticism of Judge Merchan. I believe he could allow a copy of the jury instructions in the deliberating room.
I believe he's just following a pre-existing law.
Omg...he can't break the law , it could cause a mistrial!!!!!
If the jury has a question about the instructions, it's better for them to ask the judge for clarification rather than try to puzzle it out themselves in a 55 page document.
@@Sarcasticron You are correct. I have discovered since the reason for his decision.
@@jend.1069 You are wicked.🤣
"Sitting for 5 weeks" 😂 was actually just 17 days and less than 8 hours a day.
One has to ask, (but knows the answer), if Trump wasn't running for President, would any of this be happening? The answer is no.
I would certainly hope so. What he engaged in was illegal activity, so whether he's running to be president or not, he should be judged by a jury of his peers.
No, it wouldn’t because it’s not an actual crime. They literally had to twist a pretzel up to figure out how to make this into a crime. The only way this could be a crime is if he was falsifying business records to cover up another crime. But in the jury instructions, they’re saying they don’t have to agree on what that crime was. Will you would think if the whole case is contingent on him having to commit that second crime they would definitely need to agree on what the crime that he committed. In a case, it has to be unanimous that a crime was committed & the type of crime. There’s no way this will not win in appeals. The jury said they don’t agree on what crime he committed which makes the whole case invalid. It’s bad jury instructions and it was intentional. If anything, the judge is committing the crime because the judge knows better.
"O our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless against this great multitude which is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on You.”
(So you'd know Who is actually in control).
Good explanation
RICO...IRS...
In my state, juries always get a copy of the instructions to take to the room during deliberations. Crazy to think people absorb unfamiliar things after just one reading of the content of the instructions.
That's what you get with 'states rights', just the same as it is when it comes to women's healthcare in pregnancy.
This is what it must have been like trying to convict capone or gotti
Isn't the New York (city) legal system guilty itself of breaking the same law (NYEL, Section 17-152) that they accused the Mighty T of breaking?
Obviously the New York legal system needs to make some sensible changes such as allowing copies of the jury instructions be provided to the jury.
As much as I want to see Trump held accountable, it seems this case is really threading a needle. I will be surprised if he's found guilty.
Concern troll is obvious.
All this “first time an American President…”, I haven’t thought once during this trial that he was a president bc he is so unpresidential.
Not Guilty.
Effing banana republic.
JUST GIVE THEM A COPY, it’s 2024 & that’s the most ridiculous WASTE OF TIME EVER.
and wait for 18? people to read 55 pages. that will go quick.
When they are confused about something in the instructions, do you want them to try and figure it out themselves from the document or just ask the judge? People can disagree on which way is better but it isn't an obvious choice.
I'm still really confused on what he did. He settled with Stormy out of court and what? Embezzled? What was the lie? I'm not being funny
Crickets….nobody knows.
@@jzbman Yeah no one knows what he did.
I'm just as confused as when I got here
He compared this to a murder case.. that is insane
🤔 so is trumps lawyers arguing the 152 ?
😆
that thumbnail of him trying to smile is horrifying and hilarious at the same time
Thanks for explaining about the menu of possible crimes. That makes the juries job much less of a wide open decision than one might conclude based on earlier reporting. Nice job.
Making sure Trump doesn’t get reelected will also make sure he finally faces the rest of his criminal trials! Vote for justice. VOTE BLUE
Word! 👏
Maybe a good night of no sleep will help Donald make sense 🖥🍿🤣
joe fell asleep at the memorial day ceremony.
Trump slept through his entire trial. They’re both older men. DT is 77? Biden 81.
It's indicative of how joe feels about vets.
@@kelperdude; Donald fell asleep again in the court room today ! AGAIN, DONSHITZINPANTS HAS TO HAVE AID from his buddy Valty !
@@kelperdudeCompletely false...
A non disclosure agreement is not illegal, nor is paying your lawyer for handling it.
Hey, Americans - YOU guys voted him into the oval office, so now prove to the World that you're truly repentant for causing all of this UTTER CRAP as a result of your decision - and LOCK HIM UP.
RESEARCH &: EDUCATE YOURSELF ❗
Get some mental gymnastics alone that the Democrats had to use just to bring these charges with no one actually knowing actually what he's actually being charged with it's just pathetic and if you don't think the people see it you're blind..... What happens if he's convicted..... I'll tell you what happens .... Straight to the White House
too easy.....big house.
@@davidcleveland-yv6my the White House if you think Trump does 30 seconds in a jail cell you need to get some help with your TDS that'll never happen
@@davidcleveland-yv6myWRONG AGAIN! 😂🇺🇸🖕🏾
Guilty as charged, lock him up.
Trump is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under any circumstances and for any cause.
That’s pretty big words/thinking for MAGA to comprehend. . 😆. Bravo 👏
Bull💩
@@FieldBlaser Trump loves money, TV, pretty boys, his hairdresser, and one of his kids.
Lock up Drumph up now.
It's even simpler than it seems. Pretend for a moment that this was about hiring a hitman. Falsifying the document is you wanting to hide that you solicited a murder (whether or not the murder ever ended up happening.) Whether your solicited that murder because your hated the victim or to cash in on an insurance policy or to get an inheritance isn't something the jury needs to unanimously agree on as long as they unanimously agree that you falsified documents to cover up that you solicited murder for any of those three reasons. One guy thinks you hated the victim, 2 think you wanted that life insurance policy, 9 think you were gunning for an early inheritance--12 jurors think you are guilty and that's that.
But what does hush money have to do with any of this
The reason that that’s not the same in your example is because the only way the first part of it can be a crime is is the second part of it. It was a crime. So it’s not disagreeing on why the crime was committed like your example is showing. The second part has to be a crime that they’re covering up. I.e. tax fraud. So they would need to unanimously agree on what that second crime was in order to make that one a crime. Otherwise they have three people saying he committed three different crimes to make that first one qualify as the crime.
Who is confused ?
They basically had to twister pretzel to get some kind of conviction to work. Let’s give the example of the murder trial. In a murder trial, you have to agree that the crime occurred, what the crime was, and what type of weapon was used in the crime. They are saying in Trump’s case the only way that falsifying business records could be a crime in this case Would be is if he was falsifying those business records to cover up another crime. But they are saying you don’t have to unanimously agree on what the second crime was. That is completely ridiculous. That would be like saying in a murder that you agree that they committed murder but you don’t agree on the weapon used. That would never be acceptable and a criminal trial ever. It will definitely be appealed but honestly, I don’t believe they care if it is appealed they just wanted to have it interfere with his ability to campaign during the election. Drain his money and be able to call him a fell in during the election. And this just proves it more than ever.
Everything leads to a guilty verdict. How can it be any other way. He admitted his guilt in so many different ways publicly. Every tactics to prevent this case from happening shows his guilt. He cant prove his Innocence hes definitely not Mother Teresa....shameful he even uses her name
Seriously so dumb to make a big deal of this
It's so easy to be guilty these days
They should have had cameras. I would have liked to see the trial
Glad to see TLev up there. He's my ideal of a Music Man player. ❤️
The idea of decision matrix is not new with me. I have seen these used by a couple of public utility commissions. It is very helpful for complex cases.
I heard nothing but projection. Great reporting 😃👍
@@learnsteelguitarinretirement 1:30 their interfering in this election with the lawfare
@@CavemanVanDweller So, you think it’s perfectly acceptable to lie to the government on your bookkeeping? And you would say this if a democrat did it?
Sure, “Gus.”
@@jrrarglblarg9241 the gubmint lied to you and is extorting money constantly 🤷🏽♂️
The most misunderstood twist in Donald
Just how hard has Melania Renegotiated..!
After. He was, "speaking in tongues"
trump Testimony is during morning break at 9am and lunch at 12pm, listen to the words coming out of his BIG MOUTH$.
Trump the GLOAT, master projector...
biggest liar of all time.....bloat.
Sociopath!
Why do you assume we're morons? And why do you assume these jurors are morons? Life is complicated. These laws aren't.
you tell 'em ronny !!
True...and why all the shouting?
The jury did have a lot of info thrown at them over the course of the last few weeks. Yet, they only now are getting to know what laws are at play here. I am gad that the jury has two lawyers/attorneys as members because it may allow the jury to have more independence and encourage them all to come to the right just verdict.
irrelevant that he’s an ex-president-he’s a citizen.
Those instructions seems like the jurors are righting doctorate exams😂
Very complicated jury instructions.
It seems to have been missed that a guilty verdict in this case doesn't demand a jail sentence. The Judge said it himself when admonishing Todd Whatisname.
Not a wise analogy used by Duncan Levin. The murder weapon is the means of a murder.
The Judge will be getting Jury Instructions everyday. 55 pages wont be allowed in the Jury Room. Whats up with that. I heard it takes over 1 hr just to read them.
Weird quirk of NY law. Something about not overly burdening the jury.
@@jennaxoxox4821 One of those rules that probably made good sense for whatever reason it was created, but then we come to a case like this and it seems totally counterproductive. I agree with the original poster, they're probably going to need it read to them repeatedly, and there will probably still be disagreements among the jurors each time over what they just heard. Human nature is inescapable! 😃
they will probably only want to revue certain portions not the whole thing.
ALWAYS A TWIST !! TUMP 2024
Another stable genius was heard from. Who's Tump?
@@thepaulusmaximus AND WHATS GREAT UNDER JOE .. WAITING ..
55 pages of jury instruction which I take to contain decision points and they read them to the jurists??? They should give them a decision matrix and access to the transcripts and evidence so they can set up a process. It seems od that the press can get copies of the transcripts but the jurists can't???
Yeah, I find that really odd. Took me a while to track down the written jury instructions, I'd find it far more sensible to have a copy in the jury room.
The jury has a laptop.
If you can find a copy of the instructions, so can they....
@@alfredgeorge3186 Presumably the laptop is customized to jury use. No internet access, and just the tools and information they need to review the allowed testimony and evidence. Oh, and Minesweeper. Gotta have that.
it is a new york law. i doubt they can access it on line.
@@alfredgeorge3186 their laptop is loaded up with trial documents/exhibits and isn't connected to the Internet.
Typical Trumpian: confusing so much that everybody gives up.
So , whats hard about that ? The people listen to the the trial , look at the evidence etc. Why are yall trying to make it Harder than what it is ! Please !
I just luv Ur smiling faces...😅😊New Chump NFTS [ Ending scene ♥️ of The Untouchables *** with : Mr Kevin Costner and Mr Robert Dinero ♥️...Capone dragged away...kicking and Screaming 😱 ♥️ ❤️ 💖 💙 Aaaaah
This court case is a joke. At least the jury are taking it seriously which means probably won't be found guilty.
wouldn't that lead to dystopia?
@@davidcleveland-yv6my nope. People seem to think Trump will end the world. These people are just insane.
😂 you’ve been on your knees for Trump too much. Chapped lips?
Trump loves money, TV, pretty boys, his hairdresser, and one of his kids.
...and big macs c'mon.
What's up with the Orange tie (worn ever since the Red Tie Brigade showed up)? "Better to match my Orange skin, my dear." (With apologies to the wolf in Red Riding Hood).
🐷 👀
He only needs one MAGA person on that jury.😂😂😂😂
❤🎉TRUMP 🎉❤
🇺🇸 TRUMP 🇺🇸
❤
d'ooooh