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
That’s like saying the Mob don’t understand the law. They do.
Trump is not trying to understand the US system, he wants to takeover. Period.
He HAS taken over – USA is in reality a dictatorship now
@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
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.
First thing Dictators do is take away your guns. That ain’t happening with TRUMP.
@Dave Schultz <<--- Stfu comrade. No one cares what russians think. Worry about your own country. #RussiansSuk #AfternoonShift
“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
Neither of those quotes are very comforting, but I still up-voted them. Not a nice world right now.
mob, american president… What is the difference?
Difference is color of skin, way Obama could of some this much evil.
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. 🤔😄😆
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.
Gyrene_asea your brain is leaking out your earhole… and it’s green with envy- not the normal gray
@15k DOW 2022 Please stop getting spelling help from tRump. He really is not very good at it. Says one who has a brain.
Gyrene_asea mea culpa, I think I have dyslexia 🤷♂️
You actually believed his story ? You’re one of the “walking brainwashed” crowd .
He lacks understanding of EVERYTHING!!
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Jeremy Backup Well, he’s a genius you know? He speaks at a 5th grade level with only a pre-school education.
15k DOW 2022 – please identify the place and time when trump stated a fact.
15k DOW 2022 – you do know that Hillary Clinton got 3million more votes, and therefore the polls were right ?
HE IS destroying our WORLD. SMOG IS back WITH A vengeance THIS summer. IT WILL be BAD FOR EVERYONE. IN THE WORLD. HE IS.
It will be the worse summer in HISTORY.
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
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.
He’s counter-punching .
That’s what MEN DO .
more like shaddow boxing,,,,
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!
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 ?
don,t listen to that guy,,pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,,the iron curtain!!
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.
Justice I do not think that word means what you think it means. A dictionary is a terrible thing to waste
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 .
@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,,,
@Jim666 Yes, Trump has turned the country into what his own inner, psychological life is like: chaos.
@kevin cronan When you look at what he has done to the Republican party, that apathy will soon turn into blind fear and panic.
@88Gibson LesPaul With his sort of psychopathy he will see it as normal and orderly everyone else will be seen as chaotic.
@Jim666 panic at the disco,,,hmmm
“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.
@15k DOW 2022 and yours must be so ashamed of you! Trumptroll are just festering pimples on the face of the US!
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Ya Think???
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.
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.
@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.
@Bill Fletcher I’ve watched them and read biographies on them and then some, I see Trump having more in common with Caligula…
He is a 73 year old baby and someone need to change his dipper.
@Thomas Fletcher that,s why he has 21 likes, silly,,
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.
Enjay py, devastating analysis of Trump*’s enablers. Couldn’t agree more with you.
THANK YOU! I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Indubidably
And takes his orders from the Federalist society to insure federal Judges are all conservative idealougs. Excuse my spelling
Idealogs.
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.
Exactly! One big over gown (both ways) child.
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.
@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.
@15k DOW 2022
He has shut them down that’s why there is no more press briefings.
@15k DOW 2022 <-- Keep the bubble going.
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!
Conchetta Harris you are just mad that Trump pushes back when you fcuks try to shut down his free speech
Mob Boss, the criminal unindicted co-conspirator of Cohen and Stone, Liar-In-Chief Trump, raving with the support of the GOP.
What have Cohen and Stone done to harm your life ? Be specific .
He’s said he’s the chief law officer in USA. USA is standing aside and letting him do what he wants.
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.
Sukhbir Sekhon Goose stepping up and down the National Mall and Republicans don’t care
@Richie Tattersall
And big business. And Republican voters. It goes down deep.
That is the problem.
Trump bribes with threats, lies and empty promises. He truly believes he’s above the law.
Once again Trump proves how unfit he is for any office, but especially the presidency.