NBC News Article RatingWhat you missed: 5 key moments from Trump's Monday in court for hush money case
Mar 25, 2024 View Original Article
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Exiting the courtroom at the end of the hearing, Trump mouthed 'thank you' twice to a group of five women seated in a back row." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Trump watched the arguments closely, whispering to the attorneys around him after the back-and-forth grew heated, and Blanche, his attorney, returned to the table." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "But Trump had appeared to recognize the group locking eyes with them as he left for the day." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In the courtroom, Trump didn't hide how he feels about the case." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Exiting the courtroom at the start of a 45-minute recess, Trump scowled and furrowed his brow." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Seated behind prosecutors in the courtroom was the top prosecutor who brought the case against Trump, District Attorney Alvin Bragg." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Wearing a navy suit and red tie, Trump sat between his attorneys, his eyes bloodshot." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In a separate court on Monday, Trump earned a major reprieve for the bond he was supposed to deliver as part of the civil case he lost." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump at New York Criminal Court on Monday." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "But Trump didn't have to be here to watch Merchan as the judge cited parts of the defense brief and prosecutors' submissions before pressing his attorneys about the timing of their decision to raise their discovery concerns." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "At one point, Trump seemed to pass a message to Blanche, before his attorney stood to press the issue further with the judge, citing the Mueller probe, the Access Hollywood tape, and more." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "As Merchan spoke, Trump leaned back from the defense table and narrowed his gaze." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "From the defense table, Trump shook his head." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Trump scored a victory outside Merchan's courtroom when a state appeals court ruled that he and his co-defendants in a New York civil fraud case could post a lower bond, slashing the judgment from $464 million to $175 million and delaying any possible move by Attorney General Letitia James to seize his assets." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "The case relates to a $130,000 payment from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump, to allegedly buy her silence during the 2016 presidential campaign." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Exiting the courtroom at the end of the hearing, Trump mouthed 'thank you' twice to a group of five women seated in a back row." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Trump watched the arguments closely, whispering to the attorneys around him after the back-and-forth grew heated, and Blanche, his attorney, returned to the table." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "There was little to ease Trump's mood inside the courtroom where the defense pleaded for time to parse the 170,000 pages of documents in the case handed over to them more than a week earlier." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But Trump had appeared to recognize the group locking eyes with them as he left for the day." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The DA alleges Trump falsified business records to obscure the money used to repay Cohen for those payments." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Here's what happened on Monday in Trump's legal cases:Merchan set April 15 for jury selection to begin, three weeks away, setting in motion the start of a trial that Trump's attorneys had hoped to delay further." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "In the courtroom, Trump didn't hide how he feels about the case." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Exiting the courtroom at the start of a 45-minute recess, Trump scowled and furrowed his brow." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In a series of rapid-fire exchanges, Merchan pressed Blanche over the defense's claims over the number of documents they needed to review, and prosecutors for Bragg disputed that they were actively suppressing discovery, as Trump's team has alleged." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Trump's lead attorney turned in circles as the judge pressed him to answer the question of exactly how many documents relevant to the case the defense needed to review." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Justin Lane / Pool via APDonald Trump's defense team failed to persuade Judge Juan Merchan to add more time to the clock before the start of the trial in Trump's New York hush money case, the former president shaking his head in apparent frustration during Monday's hearing as the judge set a date next month for the start of jury selection." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Bragg's office had urged the judge not to delay the trial, arguing that just 300 of the 170,000 documents turned over by federal prosecutors are relevant to Trump's defense." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Wearing a navy suit and red tie, Trump sat between his attorneys, his eyes bloodshot." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "In a separate court on Monday, Trump earned a major reprieve for the bond he was supposed to deliver as part of the civil case he lost." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump at New York Criminal Court on Monday." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But Trump didn't have to be here to watch Merchan as the judge cited parts of the defense brief and prosecutors' submissions before pressing his attorneys about the timing of their decision to raise their discovery concerns." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Merchan said the charge by Trump's lawyer was not convincing." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "At one point, Trump seemed to pass a message to Blanche, before his attorney stood to press the issue further with the judge, citing the Mueller probe, the Access Hollywood tape, and more." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "As Merchan spoke, Trump leaned back from the defense table and narrowed his gaze." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "From the defense table, Trump shook his head." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Trump scored a victory outside Merchan's courtroom when a state appeals court ruled that he and his co-defendants in a New York civil fraud case could post a lower bond, slashing the judgment from $464 million to $175 million and delaying any possible move by Attorney General Letitia James to seize his assets." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The case relates to a $130,000 payment from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump, to allegedly buy her silence during the 2016 presidential campaign." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
65% : Exiting the courtroom at the end of the hearing, Trump mouthed 'thank you' twice to a group of five women seated in a back row.53% : Trump watched the arguments closely, whispering to the attorneys around him after the back-and-forth grew heated, and Blanche, his attorney, returned to the table.
47% : But Trump had appeared to recognize the group locking eyes with them as he left for the day.
42% : In the courtroom, Trump didn't hide how he feels about the case.
40% : Exiting the courtroom at the start of a 45-minute recess, Trump scowled and furrowed his brow.
37% : Seated behind prosecutors in the courtroom was the top prosecutor who brought the case against Trump, District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
37% : Wearing a navy suit and red tie, Trump sat between his attorneys, his eyes bloodshot.
35% : In a separate court on Monday, Trump earned a major reprieve for the bond he was supposed to deliver as part of the civil case he lost.
34% : Donald Trump at New York Criminal Court on Monday.
34% : But Trump didn't have to be here to watch Merchan as the judge cited parts of the defense brief and prosecutors' submissions before pressing his attorneys about the timing of their decision to raise their discovery concerns.
30% : At one point, Trump seemed to pass a message to Blanche, before his attorney stood to press the issue further with the judge, citing the Mueller probe, the Access Hollywood tape, and more.
29% : As Merchan spoke, Trump leaned back from the defense table and narrowed his gaze.
28% : From the defense table, Trump shook his head.
25% : Trump scored a victory outside Merchan's courtroom when a state appeals court ruled that he and his co-defendants in a New York civil fraud case could post a lower bond, slashing the judgment from $464 million to $175 million and delaying any possible move by Attorney General Letitia James to seize his assets.
20% : The case relates to a $130,000 payment from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump, to allegedly buy her silence during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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