(20 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
POOL
New York – 20 May 2024
1. Former U.S. President Donald Trump approaches reporters UPSOUND of reporters: “Mr. Trump are you willing to testify?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stanford, California – 20 May 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Alan Sklansky, Law Professor, Stanford University:
“I would not put Trump on the stand if I were his lawyer, and I don’t believe that he’s going to testify. It would be disastrous for him. And I think that his lawyers know that. I think he knows it.“
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POOL
New York – 20 May 2024
3. Various of Trump talking in hallway
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stanford, California – 20 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Alan Sklansky, Law Professor, Stanford University:
“I suppose in theory, some upside to testifying because, he can tell his side of the story, and, he, I think for Trump, what’s the way that the trial is perceived outside of the courtroom may be more important than the way he’s perceived inside the courtroom.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) David Alan Sklansky, Law Professor, Stanford University:
“The problem is, that if he testifies, he can be, he can and will be cross-examined. And, the test- that the cross-examination can include, any, parts of his past record that suggests that maybe the jury should believe him.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Alan Sklansky, Law Professor, Stanford University:
“Appearing on the witness stand is the worst possible venue for a person like Donald Trump, who prefers to be speaking in front of an adoring crowd where he can talk for as long as he wants about whatever he wants. That’s the opposite of testifying as a criminal defendant in a courtroom.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wildwood, New Jersey – 11 May 2024
7. Various STILLS of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and crowd at campaign rally
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 16 April 2024
8. Wide of court exterior, police cars driving by
STORYLINE:
Prosecutors rested their hush money case against Donald Trump on Monday, turning it over to the former president’s lawyers for a chance to call witnesses.
The prosecution’s final witness, at least for now, was also their most important: Trump attorney-turned-adversary Michael Cohen, who the defense over several hours of cross-examination sought to paint as a serial fabulist who is on a revenge campaign aimed taking down Trump.
The defense’s first witness is a paralegal who works in defense attorney Blanche’s law office. Trump’s team also plans to call as a witness Robert Costello, a lawyer who advised Cohen several years ago before the two had a falling out. Costello testified last year before the grand jury that indicted Trump after asserting that he had information that undermined Cohen’s credibility.
Stanford University law professor David Alan Sklansky says that Costello’s testimony is “a classic way you impeach any witnesses by calling somebody who knows him will testify, I know that guy, I wouldn’t believe him.”
Sklansky spoke in depth on the likeliness defense attorneys calling Trump to the witness stand.
“I would not put Trump on the stand if I were his lawyer, and I don’t believe that he’s going to testify. It would be disastrous for him. And I think that his lawyers know that. I think he knows it."
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