Trump Attacks On Juror Shows Lack Of Understanding Of US System | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel, talks with Rachel Maddow about the threat Donald Trump's abuse of the judge and lead juror in the Roger Stone trial poses to the integrity of the U.S. jury system, and how the attacks reveal Trump's lack of understanding of the principals of the jury system. Aired on 02/26/20.
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Trump Attacks On Juror Shows Lack Of Understanding Of US System | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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    1. @15k DOW 2022 <<--- you guys are arguing with a known Russian troll. He's not Republican or Democrat, ... he's Russian. One of many Putin trolls here spewing divisive nonsense. #seriously #DivideAmericans

    2. Thank God! Through out the liberals. 2 decades in DOC. If you don’t have that kind of knowledge keep the thumbs off the key board. If you pay for a lawyer you don’t plead out.

    3. @Dave Schultz <<--- Stfu comrade. No one cares what russians think. Worry about your own country. #RussiansSuk #AfternoonShift

  1. “Common sense will tell us, that
    the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
    “Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

  2. I love how Weissmann flipped it around with the t’rump supporter who was on the jury for the Manafort case.
    Sadly, the lesson in hypocrisy here won’t fit on a hat, so republicans are not likely to understand it. 🤔😄😆

    1. Yeah, the understanding of “Duty” and related concepts seems foreign to the current crop of the tRumpian Party. Obligation and Oaths? How does one spell those words? What do they mean? Oh, no!

      Oh, forget it. tRumpians and our Senators (R) seem immune to shame. 2020, 2022, and 2024 will I hope, give future Senators (R) pause.

    2. @15k DOW 2022 Please stop getting spelling help from tRump. He really is not very good at it. Says one who has a brain.

    1. 15k DOW 2022 – you do know that Hillary Clinton got 3million more votes, and therefore the polls were right ?

  3. HE IS destroying our WORLD. SMOG IS back WITH A vengeance THIS summer. IT WILL be BAD FOR EVERYONE. IN THE WORLD. HE IS.

    1. James Armijo I’m near Philly and smog is no issue. If you’re in LA smog has never not been an issue. Overall, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell about 2 percent in 2019

  4. Trump understands the Justice system perfectly, like all other arms of government that seek to check his dark agenda. The point is these systems are in his way, he is a gangster, a predator, he attacks them in any way he can, because they restrain him in some way.

  5. This is a Mafia mobster presidency and administration and the GOP. Barr is part of it. Shame on all of them…hope they lose everything and karma comes back around to them!

    1. Barbie , Trump has been investigated by 6 different teams of investigators in the past 4 yrs . FBI , CIA , IRS , and special Counsel Mueller included . Mueller had 19 Federal Prosecutors (lawyers) all Democratic party supporters and they investigated Trump for 2 years . NONE OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS SAID TRUMP HAD MAFIA CONNECTIONS OR RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS . Can you wrap that little tiny pea brain of yours around that ?

  6. Pure Mafia Practices. The WH Psychopath has established a Dictatorship and this should be spoken out in clear, lay language as to be taken into voters consideration wether they chose to live in a dictatorship or not.

  7. The US PRESIDENT is tasked with protecting the citizens of America.
    He attacks them.
    He doesnt care about the citizens of the United States of America.
    America is under a dictatorship .

    1. @Jim666 yes, he is,,maybe what we need to wake this country up and lose some of the apathy thats been going on for way too long,,may be a blessing in disguise,,,

    2. @kevin cronan When you look at what he has done to the Republican party, that apathy will soon turn into blind fear and panic.

    3. @88Gibson LesPaul With his sort of psychopathy he will see it as normal and orderly everyone else will be seen as chaotic.

  8. “This happens in mob cases.” And as any informed person knows, Trump has connections to the Mafia, which is where he likely learned these alarming and corrupt habits.

    1. @15k DOW 2022 and yours must be so ashamed of you! Trumptroll are just festering pimples on the face of the US!

    2. 15k DOW 2022 – I thought it was a good comment. Please explain the bit about parents. Not really getting that. I think if he made a good comment his parents should be proud.

  9. I don’t question Trump’s understanding, I question his sanity. He’s an American Nero. He chewed on to many window sills as a child in the 40s and 50s. Teh nam is drain bamaged reyond yepair.

    1. @Craig Crawford Nero was a populist showman, an actor thrust into power by his mother.
      I suggest the historian Mary Beard’s videos on the two men. Available here on YouTube.

    2. @Bill Fletcher I’ve watched them and read biographies on them and then some, I see Trump having more in common with Caligula…

  10. Trump’s issue isn’t a lack of understanding of the justice system, it’s really a contempt for the justice system. Trump deep down despises real Americans and considers them unworthy of good government. He only knows how to tear down and doesn’t know how to build.
    He’s surrounded by people like Bill Barr placating the toddler impulses and pumping up a false sense of invincibility. Trump is supported by the power mad like #moscowmitch. He’s got Ginni Thomas telling him SCOTUS will do whatever he wants. He has the grifter like Mnuchin, the servile like Mulvaney, the venal like Wilbur Ross, the opportunists like Pence and Pompeo, idiots like Chuck Wolf and Devos and the pathological zealotry of Stephen Miller. This entire team feeds the delusional mindset of a criminal president who knows he’s unqualified for every aspect of the presidency. He can’t lead. He can barely speak and think coherently.

    1. And takes his orders from the Federalist society to insure federal Judges are all conservative idealougs. Excuse my spelling
      Idealogs.

  11. If you don’t side with trump you’re the enemy. His side is the only side. trump understands nothing about everything. All he knows how to do is antagonize, divide, denounce and create chaos….and then blame others for it.

  12. I don’t believe he doesn’t understand, he understands perfectly well he just believes he’s the supreme ruler of America and the GOP just keeps reinforcing that.

    1. @15k DOW 2022
      Your guns determine freedom? You are wrong about free speech, just look at his attacks on the first amendment, which comes before the second amendment.

    2. Conchetta Harris he stopped the press briefings because the press like Jim Acosta were acting like vain barnyard animals and disrespecting the platform as well as the office. The beatings will continue until morale improves!

  13. Mob Boss, the criminal unindicted co-conspirator of Cohen and Stone, Liar-In-Chief Trump, raving with the support of the GOP.

    1. Actually, the Chief Law Officer of the United States and the Republicans in the Senate that didn’t remove him from office are the ones letting him do it.

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