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Deadline: White House

“A convict”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Andrew Weissmann, Susanne Craig, Vaughn Hillyard, Harry Litman, Lachlan Cartwright, Michael Cohen, Rev. Al Sharpton, and John Heilemann.

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0:00.0

Hi there everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York the extraordinary moment when Donald Trump

0:14.5

went from disgraced twice impeached four times indicted ex president liable for sexual abuse and

0:20.5

defamation to suddenly in an instance.

0:24.4

Disgraced convicted twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president liable for sexual abuse

0:29.8

and defamation is just the beginning of the beginning, the start of a long legal odyssey for

0:35.4

Donald Trump and because the Republican Party has followed him willingly down the

0:40.0

rabbit hole toward autocracy the country now has to grapple with it as well.

0:44.0

Having already spent the trial in an environment completely out of his control,

0:49.0

defendant Donald Trump will now be subject to the rules,

0:52.0

the demands, and the processes of the criminal

0:55.0

justice system, just like any other American citizen who's been convicted of a felony.

1:00.6

His right to vote, even on a ballot that bears his name, is likely to survive only because of a

1:06.5

quirk of the law in his current home state of Florida.

1:09.6

Washington Post reporting this, quote, if the former president had been convicted in

1:13.7

Republican-dominated Florida or most other states he wouldn't be allowed to vote

1:18.2

this fall as he seeks to unseat President Biden but Trump was convicted in New York, a Democrat-run state where

1:25.0

felon voting laws are more lenient. Under Florida law, residents convicted of

1:29.2

crimes in other states lose their ability to vote in Florida only if they are barred from

1:34.0

voting in the state where they committed their offenses. In New York where Trump

1:38.7

was convicted, felons are barred from voting only while they are incarcerated.

1:44.8

Earlier today, the convict returned to the scene of the crime.

1:48.4

Trump Tower, where he and David Packer of Michael Cohen hatched that plan to suppress stories

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