Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. will receive a video copy of former President Donald Trump's damning testimony in an unrelated rape and defamation case from earlier this year.
In state court documents, prosecutors reasoned that his insulting responses about sexual misconduct allegations history is relevant to his alleged criminal scheme of paying off people to keep women silent to avoid public embarrassment.
But Trump’s lawyers tried to block that move, arguing that particular evidence at his rape trial was actually meant to stay secret under a protective order. New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan asked the federal judge who oversaw the rape trial to weigh in. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan disagreed. On Thursday, he gave Carroll’s lawyers permission to hand it over.in a court order on Thursday.
The decision means prosecutors can get the tape, but it doesn’t mean they can use it at trial—at least not yet. That decision will be up to Merchan, the state court judge overseeing the Manhattan DA’s case, if and how prosecutors can present it to jurors at trial. Merchan will decide if Trump’s comments about women and sexual relations are relevant to the criminal case about his false business records and sexual affair coverups.
While the cases are entirely separate, the courtroom scrimmaging shows how the former president is drowning in so many legal headaches that they’re starting to overlap. In a similar fashion, the Manhattan DA’s long-running investigation benefitted the New York Attorney General, who is currently
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