All posts tagged "Oj Simpson"

Former United States Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) during an appearance on MSNBC's The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart argued that ex-President Donald Trump's criminal trials should be televised so that the American people can follow his prosecution in real-time.

Trump has already been indicted on dozens of counts in New York (Stormy Daniels hush money payoff) and Florida (classified documents), and more are expected to drop soon in Georgia (trying to overturn the 2020 election) and in Washington DC (January 6th).

"This is a guy who lies like other people brush their teeth and he has convinced a calcified group of Americans that somehow he's a victim and a martyr," McCaskill said of Trump. "That's why this whole discussion about transparency of these trials is important. You know, we all remember that too in the Nineties, more than two decades ago, America watched a trial of OJ Simpson. We all know that it mattered that America saw that trial. For many, it meant that there was an injustice done. For others, it was about time that somebody held police accountable for sloppy procedures. But the bottom line is everyone saw the evidence."...

Former president Donald Trump losing the civil case in which he is being accused of rape and defamation would have "a similar effect" as when O.J. Simpson famously lost a civil trial following the finding of "not guilty" in his criminal case, a New York Times Magazine legal writer said on Wednesday.

Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, was a guest on The Beat with Ari Melber on Wednesday when the host asked her about the importance of the ongoing trial in which Trump has said he won't be mounting a formal defense.

Melber presented what he says is a "dumb" question about the potential outcome in that case. ...