All posts tagged "Recording"

Donald Trump perked up when he heard his own voice played aloud in court.

"That was the voice we heard first," said legal analyst Terri Austin during an appearance on CNN's "Out Front." "We were all surprised. I thought we were gonna hear [Michael] Cohen or [Keith] Davidson or someone else — but we heard Trump and I think everybody looked up including Donald Trump because he heard his own voice."

The startling moment came on another day in the Lower Manhattan court where former President Donald Trump is defending himself against 34 charges of fudging business records to hide six-figure payments to an alleged mistress in order to keep sexual tales quiet and manipulate the 2016 election. ...

Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case in D.C. should be televised, and if the court won't do it, Congress perhaps could, a legal expert argued on Friday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, who earlier in the day sounded the alarm about one "particularly disturbing" part of Trump's recent court filing, decided to ditch the current popular news stories and talk about court transparency.

"There’s a lot of legal news brewing right now. All of it is important, and all of it matters. We will get to it over the next few days," Vance wrote. "But tonight, I want to switch gears and ask an important question about what Congress has the ability to do. If you like my idea, perhaps you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to ask/demand that your elected representatives on the Hill follow suit."...

Donald Trump was slapped with a second indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case this week, with special counsel Jack Smith alleging a conspiracy between the former president and two of his staffers to destroy security surveillance footage that showed them moving around boxes of documents at the Florida country club.

But it's even worse for the former president, noted longtime federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman on MSNBC Friday evening, because the new indictment also revealed Smith is in possession of the highly classified Iran war plan document Trump was allegedly waving around and boasting about at his New Jersey golf club — which limits his options of a defense severely.

"I wanted to ask you, proving this up if you're Jack Smith, just the sheer existence of the document combined with the tape in and of itself, assuming it's authenticated and entered into evidence, because it includes an admission by Donald Trump as a defendant in this case — do you need more than that?" asked anchor Katie Phang. "Do you need the actual people in the room to cooperate to be able to testify on behalf of the government to be able to prove this connection between Count 32 and this secret military plan?"...

NEW YORK (AFP) – The legendary US musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron, known as the "Godfather of Rap," has died in New York at the age of 62, his recording company announced.

A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased the damages to be paid to movie and music firms.

New Hayworth ad uses McCain's own voice admitting to lying during 2000 campaign.