The Other Importance Of Contempt Hearings

If they weren’t representing a lying, untrustworthy criminal scumbag who tries to intimidate witnesses, they would have known who the next witness was going to be. Them’s the breaks. https://t.co/gGFbwahdPy

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 6, 2024

Much of Trump’s contempt has happened outside the courtroom. That means his tweets and his rants are not part of the court record. Contempt hearings make them so.

And that record protects the justice’s decision to punish Trump’s contempt by not requiring the prosecution to reveal its witness list.

Protects the ruling from review by the Appellate Division.

Trump would be better off to leave things to his attorneys.