Trump clashing with his lawyer? What Joy Reid saw inside Trump's criminal trial

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Joy Reid explains what it was like to be inside the courtroom of former President Trump's hush money trial today in New York City.
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@kimberlyherring7072 Месяц назад

I think his lawyer is sick of him.

@bradlucas3154 26 дней назад

You don't know crap. You're just typing meaningless words about a topic you know nothing about. Get a life.

@cassandrarobinson2048 24 дня назад

I know I am.

@barrrylincoln 17 дней назад

@kimberlyherring7072 How do you get your hair like that?

@PureAmericanUgly Месяц назад

Thank God I’m a Patriotic American and not a Republican.

@davemathews7890 Месяц назад

And not an insurrectionist or Putin supporter.

@debmye6959 Месяц назад

@PureAmericanUgly. Thank you for being a friend.💙

@davidhall6934 Месяц назад

U and Joy are idiots 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@tabs9183 29 дней назад

We need more people to forget parties and become more American Patriots-I love this! If we can do what is right by people and this country and not just follow political affiliation. This country would move forward faster. God Bless America!

@elisabethvalade9866 29 дней назад

Thank God we still have a choice ‼️

@dlwa256 Месяц назад

Thank you for calling him the former president. Most forget he’s former.

@jefferybrackley6025 Месяц назад

It's impossible representing a toddler in court.

@virginiaporter9244 Месяц назад

😅😅😅😂😂

@tracyjohns8265 Месяц назад

Glad you got to move into the main courtroom, Joy! You deserve a top seat in this historic trial.

@charlesfadeley826 27 дней назад

That way she can stump off stage when Trump is granted presidential immunity, cant wait to see the clips on fox news

@cassandra2100 15 дней назад

Yeah. 'Top Seat' - maybe the air is more rarefied up there and might make her more truthful in her reporting. In any event, the nearer the top, the higher the drop. Vote Trump in 2024 & kick corruption out the door. Vote Trump & SAVE AMERICA.

@charlesfadeley826 15 дней назад

I totally agree with you MEGA.@@cassandra2100

@billwalsh388 Месяц назад

It must be hard being a lawyer for someone who acts like a spoiled toddler.

@margaretjones7954 24 дня назад

Thats funny. You libs act like Jr highkids with all the bashing and name calling

@Castion-1 Месяц назад

Joy Reid is so professional.

@tone2106 Месяц назад

🤣🤣🤣

@Jonobos Месяц назад

Lol, more lawyers ruining their lives for trump.

@Tintintanabulation 26 дней назад

Make Attorneys Get Attorneys 😂

@edge918 Месяц назад

Joy! So good to see you at this trial!

@marlabrown8022 Месяц назад

He said in an interview that “even the people that don’t like me are going to vote for me” 🤦🏼‍♀️ His face will be forever in the new dictionaries next to the word “delusional”.

@wnose Месяц назад

Republicans have assembled 100,000 "election observers" so that could be a possibility. However low you think the bar is, republicans can surprise you.

@errolhobson1653 Месяц назад

Delusional now stands for T'Rump in the Oxford dictionary. It has been renamed😅😊

@bradlucas3154 26 дней назад

He is actually correct. I don't like the man but I do support his ideas and vision for the country and will be voting for him. I'm not voting for a friend or because I like the guy. I'm voting for the BEST candidate to get the country back on track......that would be Trump. Biden and the democrats are destroying the country as fast as they can. One honest look at the border will show you that.

@lisal9829 Месяц назад

Imagine how triggered Trump must have been to see Joy in court today, and Rachael Maddow yesterday.

@mariyamwaniki Месяц назад

😄😄😄

@davidrhinehart7764 Месяц назад

Why?

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

Those two hacks are in no position to intimidate anyone.

@marshwetland3808 Месяц назад

@@maryhalverson5713 Hacks - lol. They don't have to do anything for him to feel something. He will feel what he feels. Frankly, I doubt he pays attention to MSNBC. Too painful and above his ability to comprehend.

@bookgirlny8511 Месяц назад

Ikr?! 😂😂😂

@FraudVonSchitzypants Месяц назад

He complains they don't allow him to speak...and yet he is not taking the stand..

@kimhawkins5575 Месяц назад

He lies to much for stand

@annemurphy8074 Месяц назад

And he never shuts up even with a gag order.

@mac888spectral7 Месяц назад

Whichever end it comes out of, it's the same sound anyway.

@mac888spectral7 Месяц назад

@@mathewdo4121 🐏 Maaaaaggaa 🐑

@user-gz9ty9md4v Месяц назад

No legal arguments from djt, only piles and piles of BS

@user-yr7uk4te3k Месяц назад

Not one family member present...Trump taught his family well... Never support a Loser.

@wnose Месяц назад

They sent thoughts and prayers

@Gmalisaz Месяц назад

@@wnoseha ha trumps don’t have thoughts and they sure as heck don’t pray.

@deadcarz4926 Месяц назад

@@wnose ...Cash on delivery.

@NoYouTubeCensoring Месяц назад

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit have already cursed your futile efforts Trump haters. Your satanically inspired lies against President Trump cannot ever work, but you'll just have to find that out for yourselves. "Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot WHAT IS VAIN?" "The Lord LAUGHS AT the wicked, for He sees his day is coming!"

@bloopgoesdonald6045 Месяц назад

Daddy wasn't there. To take me to the fair to protect me from a bear to tell someone else was there daddy wasn't there. Not even their graduations?

@dc9748 Месяц назад

A 13 and 14 year old getting in line early to get a seat to this historic case, just gives me hope for the future generations.

@debmye6959 Месяц назад

@dc9747. And, why this child is not in school. More so, where are their parents?

@BoobarellaNippleton Месяц назад

@@debmye6959 Perhaps they are homeschooled and this is their civics lesson.

@debmye6959 Месяц назад

@@BoobarellaNippleton Wow, civics.👏👏👏👏

@fred5399 Месяц назад

@@debmye6959 the whole country needs to see this.

@debmye6959 Месяц назад

@@fred5399 Agreed.

@yapdog Месяц назад

I have no tears for a lawyer who chooses to represent Trump. They saw that bloated orange Mack truck lumbering down the avenue and they willingly jumped right in front of it. FA/FO

@wiljanhopeable Месяц назад

Omg! Your comment literally made me laugh out loud!

@rude1527 Месяц назад

Then you are a dictator. You yell and scream for justice but not him. Hypocrite you are..

@Trollzarefunny Месяц назад

@@rude1527 Bot 🤖

@yapdog Месяц назад

@@rude1527 Wrong comment, Vladbot

@dennisbrooks8566 Месяц назад

@@rude1527 Anything you say CAN and WILL be used against you in a court of law .

@Thechosen1798 Месяц назад

He knows that he is TOAST! and like McDonald's im lovin it . 🍔 🍟

@JB-ek7ji Месяц назад

Way to be on-site Joy for the people, .you bring us the joy of truth.

@margaretjones7954 Месяц назад

JB you are so funny. Like Joy does her job cause she loves the viewers. Uou need yo understand something, she foesnt give a rip about you or anyone not Rachrl Maddow. Their goal is to tell the drms what they want to hear and lie and tell fake news. They laugh at you fools all the way to the bank!

@markantrobus8782 Месяц назад

Joy is great!

@zimladyj84 Месяц назад

Nothing sadder than an almost 80 year old man on trial and no one in his family shows up. Even if I was guilty my family would be there, money can’t buy everything.

@anonymouslee8287 29 дней назад

They guilty grifers too!!!..

@user-rm2rq8fq1l 29 дней назад

After the way DJT has treated his family for decades , I don’t blame them as they know that he is GUILTY AS SIN!!!!!!!!!!!😈👿👹👺💩

@itsjustme7487 25 дней назад

The cameras might be used to photograph the family rather than orange man. Mr T wouldn't like that

@merriebrown4089 Месяц назад

Hmmm? I would think that ANY lawyer choosing to represent defendant Trump automatically begins to lose credibility.

@echarts1946 Месяц назад

I’d be shocked if Trump’s lawyers last the whole trial.

@drekelley2352 Месяц назад

I'll be shocked if the jury makes it trough this trial

@kathyrama4570 Месяц назад

Even Tacky Tacky Pino jumped ship. I heard a Lawyer years ago say, Trump DOES NOT LISTEN AND DOES NOT PAY HIS BILLS.

@boardrfolif3 Месяц назад

It'd unfortunately another move he could do to probably delay things.

@mistiecantey1 Месяц назад

I don’t think his lawyers would be allowed to quit at this point.

@cortestando Месяц назад

please, no! that means postponement

@_Ben4810 Месяц назад

I do like Joy...👌👌👌 She is looking fantastic here also ❤️❤️❤️

@helanna9843 Месяц назад

From videos I've seen of trump, the only emotion that he seems capable of experiencing is anger.

@bubbawilliams Месяц назад

I've seen a smile on his face when he's verbally assaulting someone. Especially when they can't fight back

@ReisterJP Месяц назад

@@bubbawilliams is that why you are obsessed with the orange man

@bubbawilliams Месяц назад

@@ReisterJP is that why you love your cult leader?

@aussiemouth747 Месяц назад

This is what happens when you don't allow yourself the option of having a beer in the evening! 😆🦘

@ReisterJP Месяц назад

@@bubbawilliams so people who decent your opinion must be in a cult? Very progressive white liberal

@DabsDad Месяц назад

Imagine being Trumps lawyer and knowing your going to lose bigly and not get paid on top of it.

@alanluong1278 Месяц назад

They don't care, they just being loyal to drump that all, knowing that they could lose the case and not getting paid 😄

@TheMangoMussolini Месяц назад

They're paid up front from the Save America PAC.

@davidcisneros1429 Месяц назад

Keep hollering into your echo chamber. Nobody's listening here! Hahaha

@TheMangoMussolini Месяц назад

@@davidcisneros1429 Apparently YOU are. But then, you're an expert on echo chambers, traitor.

@kathyrama4570 Месяц назад

The Lawyer could have said Not no, he'll no.

@MAgaSUXX Месяц назад

Joy Reid is a treasure🙏💰

@NappyChile Месяц назад

❤ Joy ❤

@Dont.Call.Me.Tall. Месяц назад

It's funny that Blanche believed he could fix DJT. 😂

@deadcarz4926 Месяц назад

You can't polish a turd.

@CharlieFlask Месяц назад

Blanche has by now figured out that he cannot cure Assholism.

@hushpuckena126 Месяц назад

'Saviours' always believe they can succeed where others have failed.

@LaurenBies Месяц назад

Love Joy!

@Lance-ef6mg Месяц назад

Me too! Cannot figure out why Trump is wearing her hair though.

@tone2106 Месяц назад

@@Lance-ef6mgIt's the other way around, Trump's hair is natural, why is Joyless Reid wearing a blonde wig 🤔

@CalebTrask Месяц назад

@@tone2106 Trump’s hair is natural? 😂😂😂 Have you ever seen him in a strong wind?

@tone2106 Месяц назад

@@CalebTrask So you make fun of Trump's hair which is naturally blonde but see no problem with Reid a black woman wearing a blonde wig 🤔. Liberal logic at work.

@CalebTrask Месяц назад

@@tone2106 So, you're saying Trump’s blond wig is natural?

@tinahickman6300 Месяц назад

"Your honor I'm sorry I can't help it that my client is a narcissistic gas bag that can't keep his mouth shut." That's all he had to say. I would have made the legal argument that obviously my client has problems understanding the letter of the law and that at his age he's beginning to mentally Decline and showing signs of dementia so at times he forgets that he's under a gag order

@Bigdaddie420 Месяц назад

Joy looks so happy 😂

@DisaffectedLiberal Месяц назад

She got herself a new Trump wig.

@user-gz9ty9md4v Месяц назад

Metoo

@Trollzarefunny Месяц назад

@@DisaffectedLiberal Awe skabeevazzzz keep whining orcboi 😂

@stephendupuis6062 Месяц назад

I thought trump owed money to his past lawyers. Why would a decent lawyer want to represent this man-child?

@bubbawilliams 26 дней назад

Cash up front

@genevabecker8441 Месяц назад

And after all of this grief, Trump is STILL not going to pay his lawyers...

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

Lawyers should never be paid unless they win their client's case. And retainer fees should be abolished altogether.

@marthaarmstrong966 Месяц назад

His lawyers have really done as good a job as they could. insane to gag an attorney IN COURT.

@TheMangoMussolini Месяц назад

They're paid up front from the Save America PAC.

@ariaflame-au Месяц назад

@@maryhalverson5713 So you want people who are down on their luck, who need a good lawyer to not get one because lawyers will only do work for cases they think they can win easily.

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

@@ariaflame-au-- People who are down on their luck can't get a lawyer because they can't afford the retainer.

@steveng8251 Месяц назад

I love Joy's take and glad that she was there. Hopefully she had a sniff sack for the reek of the room and space.

@skycloud7637 Месяц назад

HORRIBLE TRUMP!!! GO AWAY!!!

@irisradinger1632 Месяц назад

I second your wish! 👍

@user-vn5vj3pc8n Месяц назад

I THIRD IT. !!!

@marthaarmstrong966 Месяц назад

why is he horrible........his business sense works for us all and has provided a lot of jobs in NY city. you will miss all those taxes and taxpaying citizens when they are out of a job.

@EdTex7643 Месяц назад

@@marthaarmstrong966 NY was fine before Trump and Will be fine after he's long gone. Guess you forgot about the 6 bankruptcies.

@ReisterJP Месяц назад

Public education failed you.

@user-98k5lm Месяц назад

I wouldn't wish Trump on any lawyer and I don't like lawyers.😅

@pickledragonrebel Месяц назад

Hos lawyers made their own bed. Let them sleep in it. ! They brought this on themselves and its not like there wasn't plenty of proof who they'd be representing

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

@@pickledragonrebel ---"Mama's, don't let your babies grow up to be shysters"

@bookgirlny8511 Месяц назад

Exactly

@irvinnicely5475 Месяц назад

@@maryhalverson5713 and don’t let them become con artists

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

@@irvinnicely5475 One and the same.

@christianmichael1970 Месяц назад

No nodding off or sleeping today? Bummer! I heard the my pillow guy was on standby with rations...

@CherDavis-pk5sn Месяц назад

😁😁😁

@johannorman3067 Месяц назад

Great job as always Joy. I am glad you got to witness the trial today in person.

@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-Night Месяц назад

It warms my heart to see Joy’s ear to ear smile! We’ve been waiting for consequences too long to not feel some peace and happiness in this moment!

@michaellogicadministration1814 Месяц назад

Hayye, Joy Reid I was looking forward to your time/observation of this historical courtroom … ex-president on trial. I listen to you and Rachel Maddow.

@judyw393 Месяц назад

hey joy good job

@susanbecker5678 Месяц назад

Oh boy I bet Joy was in her glory 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤😂🎉🎉😊😊😊

@Rumb1epit Месяц назад

I'm guessing it smelled like desperation and depends.

@mariagoode5903 Месяц назад

😂😂😂❤

@lisal9829 Месяц назад

Gassolini at it again, I bet!

@TTownTim Месяц назад

Ironically... that is the name of his new Men's Cologne for maga Losers!.>>> "Desperation & Depends" ~ get some for the maga loser in your life

@budman4224 Месяц назад

Trump has the right to remain silent....but deadly

@shwicksdad Месяц назад

Desperation and Lysol...

@user-db7ee8nl3q Месяц назад

So is Trump going to try to fire his lawyer as incompetent to try to stall the trial?

@TheMangoMussolini Месяц назад

Can't do it without extremely good cause (as in "error resulting in appealable misconduct"), and it requires court approval, which is as rare as hen's teeth. He is free to dismiss one of the lawyers provided it doesn't cause any delay at trial.

@CharlieFlask Месяц назад

Very complicated and almost impossible considering the fact that he most likely can't afford another one and who would be gullible enough to take this on after the way Trump is presenting himself now.

@TheMangoMussolini Месяц назад

@@CharlieFlask His Save America PAC, which is paying the legal bills, has $120M dollars. I think he can afford another one. A whole slew of them actually. But who's he gonna get? When you get down to the Alina the Hobbits and Christina Bobtails, you're scraping the barrel already. The ONLY decent, self respecting lawyer he's got is Ms. Necheles.

@dianep6791 28 дней назад

Can't. 😂😂😂😂

@joerogain5025 Месяц назад

Hush Money Payments has such a sleazy and seedy connotation to it but then I guess its befitting defendant tRUMP.

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

Just imagine the vile things Joe and Hunter must've done for Ukraine to make such exorbitant blackmail demands. And who's paying for it? WE are!

@CarbonKevin Месяц назад

These sudden, jarring ads with Ali yelling at the end of every video are awful. Do better.

@prasannasurange Месяц назад

It's Ali not Ari

@stormbroke Месяц назад

It’s Ali Velshi telling us all how to use an App Store. I feel sorry for him having to explain such trivial information.

@victoriamccullough6464 Месяц назад

enough with THE APP..... we get it ...... please STOP

@geraldinegrice8506 Месяц назад

❤ MSNBC is bringing the news and FACTS! Thank you 😊

@pretty5793 Месяц назад

How does Trump look? I am happy Jon Stewart pointed out how ridiculous that question is

@lifeoverdoseent7150 Месяц назад

Exactly

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

Lately Jon Stewart's looked like he's been threatened with something substantial to keep him in line. The same haunted expression as Bernie Sanders and Mike Johnson. Hmmm.

@bubbawilliams Месяц назад

@@maryhalverson5713only in your fevered dreams

@maryhalverson5713 Месяц назад

@@bubbawilliams - C'mon, Bubba. There's no denying they all look like beaten dogs.

@tonyfraser8580 Месяц назад

Trying to Defend the indefensible. 😂

@v66catta84 Месяц назад

Well that was a Joy! 😂

@SandraPalmer-rb3mm Месяц назад

Please, please, please stop putting that ad for the MSNBC app on the end of every video. I like your content, but the ad for the app is bombastic and irritating, especially when seen over and over. Enough with the add for the app, already!!!

@tonycollazorappo Месяц назад

FDJT! 🌊🌊💙💙Vote "BLUE" in 2024! Vote "Biden/Harris" in 2024. Save our democracy!💙💙🌊🌊

@Megan-kk7nn Месяц назад

Never. You guys are so corrupt and evil..

@jacobgonzalez2002 Месяц назад

@@Megan-kk7nnTrump is 10x worse Joe Biden may be old but he is way more mature and professional than Donald Trump 😂

@selftaopath Месяц назад

@@jacobgonzalez2002 He's only a couple of years older than stinky.

@kaydewinter9163 Месяц назад

What democracy they don't have one

@abiathararba7361 Месяц назад

YEAH BIDEN CAN'T TALK AND HARRIS JUSTS PERFORMS ACTS ON OBAMA...

@StuartMiles74 Месяц назад

I believe the judge told Blanche he was making a fool of himself.

@joehovanec1985 Месяц назад

Trumps lawyer is going to think to himself, I've done some stupid things in my life, but representing Trump is one of the stupidest things I've done.

@treblelatrice926 Месяц назад

Yaaay Joy! Good coverage! ❤❤❤

@debragarrett7653 Месяц назад

There is no argument you can give when you have a noncompliant defendant.

@holyngrace7806 Месяц назад

Wouldn't it be interesting if all the lawyers got fed up with him, and he ended up self-representing!?! lol. Bet that would not make Judge Merchan!

@traildoggy Месяц назад

Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all. -- Jimmy Reed

@nathanbutler3547 Месяц назад

If the orange mango mussolini wants to talk TELL HIM TO TAKE THE STAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁😁😁

@lisal9829 Месяц назад

Gassolini!

@bubbawilliams Месяц назад

@@lisal9829I get it. Gassolini the gaslighting goon. Try Orange Foolious once in a while, I bet it will make you smile. My favorite is still Mango Mussolini or The Tangerine Tyrant. ✌️ 🖖

@thespaceram2879 Месяц назад

Naranja Mangolini. Haha!

@topogigio7031 Месяц назад

Give Trump the Mussolini sentence

@billplaney2585 Месяц назад

Or the Ceaucescu one.

@sergeant_salty Месяц назад

Trump is getting the Navalny treatment in the name of democracy💙💙💙

@andrewstevenson118 Месяц назад

Historical and harsh.

@kevinlindsey6862 Месяц назад

D.k. 💋

@CharlieFlask Месяц назад

Blanche should cut his loss and ask for a Plea deal..

@AloneInTheVoid Месяц назад

It's pretty bad when your own attorney knows you're guilty and has a hard time putting words together to try to pretend you're not.

@Sweetmag1 Месяц назад

How could he be prepared representing a person who intentionally breaking the law?

@bellagirlgirl8827 Месяц назад

Blanche should have had a chat with Cohen before he signed on with Team Trump.

@njrealness16 Месяц назад

I love that everyone is going to court to experience the odor in the court! Field trip!😂😂🎉

@CherDavis-pk5sn Месяц назад

@btamp925 Месяц назад

He had an alina habba moment …..totally unprepared…..VOTE people VOTE…..

@j.clark2381 Месяц назад

PLEASE STOP BURNING ALI WITH THE APP PROMO!!!

@lindaross783 Месяц назад

So yes, Joy it was a smackdown from the judge.

@brian7233 Месяц назад

Just a thought. I wouldn't be surprised it Todd Blanche said "Don't do this... " to Trump and he did. Now Todd's mad and feels immediately undermined.. and goes in to trial purposely unprepared.

@wayneperry7413 Месяц назад

Nah, don’t buy that, he is going to have clients after Donald Trump, why completely ruin your reputation and standing within the legal community, severely diminishes your future career

@brian7233 Месяц назад

@@wayneperry7413 I never said Todd was going to make people aware of that fact so in turn he would lose clients only that it might of occurred? I just don't see a strong reason why a seasoned attorney would be so unprepared.

@bobikdylan Месяц назад

I'd be taller than you'd expect if I had three-inch lifts in my shoes.

@user-it5si7vb5k Месяц назад

You bring me JOY 😉😎

@stuartwoods4200 24 дня назад

Joy Reid! Thank you for such a thoughtful critique of today’s trial results! Keep us in the loop!

@elliotthaskins5923 Месяц назад

How much he has to payed his lawyers before the Republicans cut him off for good

@kpepperl319 Месяц назад

Cult followers don't know when to quit

@lewiserwin2686 Месяц назад

It puzzles me to understand how this qualifies as news. Unfortunately many people are in court everyday, no one is on television telling us what their facial expressions were

@henryroman5415 Месяц назад

@MagisterLudi-io5uj Reid is no reporter.

@lewiserwin2686 Месяц назад

If I did, it would have value, and substance to the reporting. There are things that require our attention much more than this nonsense

@LeahcimKennel Месяц назад

@@henryroman5415 do you hate Joy because you are racist or because you are in the MAGA cult or both?

@CherDavis-pk5sn Месяц назад

That's true.

@LeahcimKennel Месяц назад

@@henryroman5415 clearly that is false, here she is being a reported. The real question is why do you dislike her. Are you racist or a member of the MAGA cult? Neither of those realities make you look good.