Closing arguments begin in Donald Trump civil rape trial | Dan Abrams Live — Transcript

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1. 0:00she's accusing me of rape of raping her
2. 0:05the worst thing you can do the worst
3. 0:07charge
4. 0:09and and you know it's you know it's not
5. 0:11true too you're a political operative
6. 0:13also you're just your disgrace but she's
7. 0:17accusing me and so are you of rape and
8. 0:20it never took place and I will tell you
9. 0:23I made that statement and I said well
10. 0:24it's Politically Incorrect she's not my
11. 0:27type and that's a hundred percent true
12. 0:29she's not my type
13. 0:31and then he went on to tell the lawyer
14. 0:33that she isn't his type either that was
15. 0:35during the depositions which were played
16. 0:37in court even though Donald Trump did
17. 0:40not present a defense in the case the
18. 0:42evidence is now in closing arguments
19. 0:44have wrapped up Manhattan jury will
20. 0:46begin to deliberate tomorrow
21. 0:48the case of Eugene Carroll says the
22. 0:50former president raped her department
23. 0:52store in the 1990s let's go inside the
24. 0:55courtroom bring in Adam classfeld law
25. 0:57and crimes managing editor all right
26. 1:00Adam are we expecting the jury to get
27. 1:02the case first thing tomorrow morning
28. 1:04yes we are Dan first the judge of course
29. 1:08is going to instruct the jury and then
30. 1:10they'll consider the case for the first
31. 1:11time and there are nine jurors and you
32. 1:14were the one who had to confirm for me
33. 1:17this has to be a unanimous jury even
34. 1:19though that's not the case in all civil
35. 1:21trials that's absolutely correct because
36. 1:23it's a federal case happening under
37. 1:25Federal jurisdiction the jury must be
38. 1:27unanimous
39. 1:29reading of the jury nine people in
40. 1:35it seems that they've been attentive
41. 1:36throughout the trial they've been
42. 1:38listening to the evidence and they heard
43. 1:40closing arguments today we have a panel
44. 1:43of six men and three women that's a
45. 1:46composition apparently a very diverse
46. 1:48jury and they are going to they've
47. 1:51obviously heard a lot of evidence from
48. 1:53Eugene carrollside 11 Witnesses a lot of
49. 1:56stuff to process and they have heard
50. 1:58again and again from Eugene Carroll's
51. 2:01attorneys that uh Trump did not present
52. 2:04a defense case because they did not
53. 2:06Adam thank uh let's stick around if you
54. 2:09can because I want to bring back in
55. 2:10Diana Florence a former prosecutor and
56. 2:12Sarah Azari
57. 2:14um so the
58. 2:16um the requirement of being unanimous
59. 2:18here
60. 2:19that could lead to a hung jury right I
61. 2:22mean that could create a situation where
62. 2:24you have seven or eight who say yeah
63. 2:26yeah and it's a Manhattan jury too which
64. 2:28I think that that helps Eugene Carroll a
65. 2:31lot right I think it does yeah I mean
66. 2:33it's not the jury that Donald Trump
67. 2:34wants no definitely not Manhattan juries
68. 2:37are very sophisticated and they're also
69. 2:39liberal yeah yeah I'm just saying like
70. 2:41they're both right but like but but in
71. 2:43terms of a jury that Donald Trump wants
72. 2:46this is not the jury that he wants I
73. 2:48don't think unless no no yeah okay I
74. 2:51agree all right um let me play let me
75. 2:53play uh another piece of sound uh this
76. 2:55is from more of the deposition which is
77. 2:57just fascinating uh fascinating stuff
78. 3:00this was an interesting interchange
79. 3:02where Trump's lawyer was trying to show
80. 3:05sort of his hypocrisy and then made it
81. 3:07kind of a political debate about mail-in
82. 3:10ballots Etc uh this is number 12. let's
83. 3:13listen
84. 3:16this ridiculous situation that we're
85. 3:19doing right it's a big fat hook she's a
86. 3:21liar and she's a sick person in my
87. 3:23opinion really sick something wrong with
88. 3:26her okay
89. 3:27um in addition
90. 3:29to the Russia Russia Russia hoax the
91. 3:32Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax
92. 3:34the Mueller the Mueller or Mueller hoax
93. 3:37the line to fisa hoax the line to
94. 3:39Congress
95. 3:41hoax and the spying on your campaign
96. 3:43hoax
97. 3:45isn't it true that you also referred
98. 3:47to the use of mail-in ballots
99. 3:50as a hoax yeah I do sure I do
100. 3:54I need to be very dishonest mail-in
101. 3:57ballots very dishonest
102. 3:59and isn't it true that you yourself have
103. 4:00voted by mail I do I do sometimes I do
104. 4:03but I don't know what happens to it once
105. 4:05uh once you give it I have no idea
106. 4:09didn't seem to me like this was a
107. 4:10particularly effective line of
108. 4:12questioning I mean she's trying to show
109. 4:13that he's a hypocrite right right but
110. 4:17but I actually think it helps the
111. 4:19defense and the defense didn't really
112. 4:20argue it is what I would argue is
113. 4:23um this is just opinion you know when he
114. 4:25calls all these different things hoaxes
115. 4:27it's just the guy doesn't like to be
116. 4:29investigated for anything and he's just
117. 4:31calling it a hoax it's not that he's
118. 4:33stating a fact and saying it's in fact a
119. 4:35hoax calling her a liar which then would
120. 4:38be uh how much is politics going to come
121. 4:40into into the deliberation process I
122. 4:42mean the defense has made this very much
123. 4:44about politics saying that Lisa bernbach
124. 4:46was one of the uh corroborating
125. 4:48Witnesses uh was you know a Democrat
126. 4:51that Eugene Carroll is a Democrat how
127. 4:54much you think politics is going to come
128. 4:55into the deliberative process well I
129. 4:56think that they were voisiered very
130. 4:58clearly about politics and they're
131. 5:01supposed to put their politics aside and
132. 5:04their biases they're supposed to base
133. 5:06their verdict on the evidence so I don't
134. 5:09think that it's going to be you know
135. 5:11Republicans on this side Democrats on
136. 5:13the other such that there are in
137. 5:14Manhattan or even I think that this jury
138. 5:17I do have faith in the jury system
139. 5:19they're going to look at the evidence
140. 5:21and they are going to hold them to their
141. 5:24burden unfortunately for Mr Trump I
142. 5:26think that they've met it thank you for
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