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Why the Supreme Court's immunity decision might impact Trump's New York evidence

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Stormy Daniels, in her first U.S. interview since Donald Trump was found guilty in his New York criminal trial, talks with Rachel Maddow about the harrowing experience of being the star witness against Trump and how the trial has turned her life upside down.

Months ago, roughly a week after the Supreme Court announced it would examine whether, and to what extent, a president is immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts, Donald Trump's lawyers injected an odd, longshot evidentiary issue into another of his criminal cases: the New York hush money trial.

Within minutes of the jury's announcing their verdict, sentencing was scheduled for July 11. But as the saying goes, man plans, and the Supreme Court, which decided the presidential immunity case on Monday, laughed. Whereas the Manhattan DA politely characterized Trump's argument on official acts evidence as 'peculiar,' five Supreme Court justices made it the law of the land.

 

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