A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the consequences of a major moment in American history and politics: the first-ever trial and conviction of a former President in a court of law. Will Donald Trump’s guilty verdict threaten his campaign, or will it only shore up support from his party?
This week’s reading:
- “The Revisionist History of the Trump Trial Has Already Begun,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Trump Is Guilty, but Voters Will Be the Final Judge,” by David Remnick
- “When the Verdict Came In, Donald Trump’s Eyes Were Wide Open,” by Eric Lach
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| 0:52.3 | Welcome to the political scene, a weekly discussion about the big questions in American politics. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Evan Osnos, and I am joined as ever by my colleagues, Susan Glasser and Jane Mayer. |
| 1:03.9 | Welcome to you. |
| 1:04.9 | Great to be with you. I guess we have something to discuss. |
| 1:11.7 | Hi, Evan. Did anything happen? |
| 1:13.9 | Well, Jane, at 4.20 p.m. on Thursday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom, the judge in |
| 1:21.6 | Donald Trump's criminal trial received a note from 12 New Yorkers. It said, we the jury have reached a verdict. |
| 1:29.8 | We are looking at count one, guilty. Count two, guilty. Count three, guilty. Count 31, guilty. |
| 1:40.4 | Count 32. Guilty. 33, and 34, guilty. |
| 1:47.6 | And that verdict, as you all now know, was historic, guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying |
| 1:54.9 | business records in the first degree. |
| 1:56.8 | It was a stunningly decisive conclusion to a trial that I think many had waved away as the weakest of the four criminal proceedings against the former president. |
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