stuff goes way back, and with that be able to get into this trial? well, the prosecution may try to get into that because they re gonna suggest that s part of his motive, which is going through all this, is gonna try to defer blame to somebody else, we are just some sympathy, i think the state needs to be extraordinarily careful, bringing in what we call, bad act evidence, which is gonna, i think overwhelm the jury, if you start talking about all, that and that s really grounds for appeal, i think the state needs to be much more careful, to a very tight, case get him on circumstantial evidence they have, be very careful with any type of junk science evidence, and just get him as clean as they can. but don t they have to be able to bring in the prosecution, be able to bring in some of the financial allegations of financial crimes? because that is the motive they re saying for him to kill his wife. well, remember addison, murder is elective. but it s not an element of any
massive layoffs at twitter. the cuts primarily affect workers responsible for fighting misinformation, potentially hobbling twitters capabilities before the crucial midterms. nbc s jacob has more from san francisco. thousands of twitter employees are out of a job. after roughly half the staff received this message by email friday, today is your last working day at the company. elon musk saying in a tweet that he had no choice, all of this just seven this after he acquired the company and only three days before the midterm elections will test footers ability to handle misinformation. according to sources inside the company, the layoffs hit teams that filter out hate speech, add context, and study how algorithms can make misinformation worse. bad act there s will now try to take advantage experts. if the environment on twitter is going to duck grade and erode, especially as we ve seen a lot of motivated far-right actors jumping in,
that he illicitly and criminally we would say continue to fight to stay in office and even if someone might not buy, that imagine a jury of 12, he had another illicit intent which was to rip people off. so it is kind of doubling down. you only need one illicited intent. bad act. bad mental state. but lawyers love to have more than one argument. a strong prosecutorial case and these this is a committee full of prosecutors and two illicit mental states. and the defense, there wasn t anything he didn t think there was anything to spend it on. there is a letitia james bucket too. this was a civil investigation, and it is still ongoing civil investigation. is there a possibility that the trump organization somehow might wind up paying some civil penalty, even if there is not like a crime that someone can
that they are doing a good job covering across the country because it is landing everywhere. to get a felony, you need bad act, bad goal, and they proved bad goal, that state of mind, over and over today. can i tell you one thing that before these hearings that i changed my mind over time, i thought we would find something that trump had no good faith belief at all in these fraud claims and that would have to be proven for a criminal implication, you are i now believe you should no longer expect to see that, and if trump said oh, the election was being stolen by martians and the election is being stole bin people on neptune with lasers and we ll get them or whatever, and the fact that his believes were crazy is enough, it seems to me, for us to realize that there wasn t, that the whole idea of good faith mens rea in terms of criminal intent feels much more beside the fact before
the people making that call to raffensperger, we d be behind bars by now. well, i think that the main thing that she needs to prove is criminal intent. and i know that we talk about this a lot, but it is an essential element of any kind of fraud claim. all crimes have kind of two components, the bad act, and the guilty mind. the bad act here is pretty apparent, he was demanding that brad raffensperger find in these 11,000 votes. but, if he genuinely believed that he won the election, he may argue, i just wanted what i was entitled to. i thought i had lost even more than 11,000 illegitimate votes, i was just asking him to correct this injustice. that s all i was asking him to do. so what her task is to find out whether there is a fraudulent intent, then he knew he lost, and he was demanding that brad raffensperger cheat to say he won. donald j trump, is nothing if notif not a devoted