'All those things are completely untrue': MSNBC quickly cuts off Trump's courthouse rant
Former President Donald Trump's attempt to air a laundry list of complaints outside his criminal hush money trial courtroom Friday was swiftly cut off Friday by an MSNBC host who issued a sweeping fact check.
The former president began railing against Justice Juan Merchan's gag order, which he claimed prevented him from "saying anything about anybody," and was insisting legal experts widely agree Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case is a "scam" when MSNBC's Chris Jansing cut the feed.
"This is a frequent complaint of Donald Trump, that the trial is a scam," Jansing said. "He blames it on people that -- all of those things are completely untrue."
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Trump's statement arrived amid an ongoing trial on charges that he falsified business records to disguise hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Trump has pleaded not guilty, denied the affair and contends he is the victim of a political witch hunt.
Jansing noted she caught one true fact Friday afternoon as Trump addressed the media.
"Having said that, what he did say at the beginning does speak to what happened in court right before he came out," Jansing said. "The whole issue of Michael Cohen, who is expected to take the stand, as we said, on Monday, and the whole idea of the gag order."
Jansing explained Cohen's commentary on TikTok was the subject of a reprimand from Trump's attorney Todd Blanche.
"We request that he be prohibited from talking the same way Mr. Trump is, not only stop extrajudicial statements from lawyers but witnesses, as well," Blanche told the court. "We request Cohen be prohibited, again, from talking the way Trump is now, and there's a week left in this trial."
Jansing concluded, "This gets to the heart of what has frustrated Donald Trump...about the fact that he feels for a long time Stormy Daniels could say what she wanted, Michael Cohen could say what he wanted and make money off of it, but Donald Trump under the gag order is not able to respond."
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