Trump’s Legal Storm: Judge Warns Citizen Trump He Could Be In Trouble | The Beat With Ari Melber

citizen donald trump facing an onslaught of legal trouble in new york the d.a closing in on his money and here's his new defense lawyers arguing that because he's not president his tax returns should be off limits a new york state law known as the trust act allows the release of his tax returns to congressional committees the irony here invoking the fact that he's no longer president donald trump spent four years though acting that basically like being president should shield him from any legal oversight now he's saying well he's just a citizen so the taxes should not be got this way by investigators or by the congress meanwhile trump's former lawyer michael cohen expected to meet with the new york prosecution team for a ninth time that is a lot of meetings the d.a also looking into claims cohen made that trump manipulated the value of his real estate assets in order to benefit himself the da's office has seized we know this boxes and boxes of evidence financial records and a laptop from someone named jennifer weisselberg she is the daughter-in-law of trump's cfo alan weisselberg and here is what cohen told me the district attorney's office has millions of pages of documents without the documents provided by jen weiselberg without the additional documents that i am providing and have provided the truth will always come out to which case it doesn't matter who your lawyer is doesn't matter who your lawyer is in this instance the lawyer is criminal defense attorney ronald fascetti who is representing the trump organization that's another sign that this is serious business you can't just talk or tweet your way out of something when you have to hire lawyers to deal with a real open criminal probe in new york now we've been pulling on all these threads then there's the updates out of georgia where there's a separate criminal probe into the insurrection and an interesting comment from a federal judge who was presiding over the case of one of the accused capital writers the judge warning donald trump that he may soon be facing legal consequences for his own actions on january 6th we're going to keep covering all of this the fact is that donald trump had one of the most unusual most polarizing and at times yes most violent eras of a presidency in our history in terms of things that happened as a direct or foreseeable consequence of the president's actions now we're seeing from his private life and his money all the way down to those final desperate days in office when he was trying to cling onto power when he was saying out loud to the country find me the votes let's end this democracy all of this may catch up with him in a courtroom near you hey i'm arie melbourne from msnbc you can see more of our videos right here or better yet subscribe to our youtube channel below you could have been anywhere in the world but you're here with us and we appreciate that

Channel: MSNBC

Views: 1,755,763

Rating: 4.6950569 out of 5

Keywords: MSNBC, politics, msnbc news, breaking news, NBC News, us news, world news, current events, top stories, pop culture, business, health, liberal, progressive, The Beat with Ari Melber, Ari Melber, ari melber msnbc, msnbc live, ari melber live, Citizen Donald Trump, Trumps former personal attorney, attorney Michael Cohen, investigators, Trumps legal issues, digital exclusive, Trumps Legal Storm, Citizen Trump, trump news, trump news 2021, trump news latest, trump news latest today

Id: Nkd3kNqhFxM

Length: 2min 47sec (167 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 16 2021