MSNBC abruptly cut away from Donald Trump's courthouse rant after the jury began their deliberations.
The former president exited the courtroom with his attorneys and glumly rattled off his now-familiar litany of complaints about his criminal trial, calling the process rigged and attacking New York justice Juan Merchan as biased against him, but co-host Ana Cabrera quickly lost patience with his remarks.
"Listening to the charges, from the judge, who is as you know very conflicted and corrupt, because of the confliction, very, very corrupt," Trump intoned. "Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. These charges are rigged, the whole thing is rigged. The whole country is a mess between the borders and fake elections, and you have a trial like this, with the judge is so conflicted, he can't breathe, he's got to do his job."
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At that point, Cabrera and her producers decided they'd heard enough.
"We've heard this before," Cabrera said. "Donald Trump continuing to rail against the justice system."
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Legal analyst Katie Phang jumped in with a fact-check of Trump's comments.
"This is how democracy works, this is the rule of law, and despite his best efforts to not have it work, it has worked," Phang said. "The courtrooms that I grew up in, I'll say in Florida, there is a saying that is on all the walls, 'We who labor here only seek the truth.' It doesn't say we who labor here only seek the truth for those who can afford it, we who labor here only seek the truth for certain ones. Let's keep it real. In any other situation, you have a criminal defendant sometimes who is just by themselves. He has an entourage of stooges and other lawyers that are there."
"He's in a cocoon, he's in a protected cocoon," she added. "He's gone through the judicial system, he's gone through our rule of law institution, but he's protected right now. He's not getting the full effect of what it is like to be a criminal defendant in our judicial system."
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