After the assassination attempt, Trump gets a string of wins
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
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Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed the entire federal case against the former president involving his handling of classified documents.
Consider This host Ailsa Chang spoke with NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson about the legal issues in the ruling and its implications.
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| 0:00.0 | The main character of the current news cycle is once again Donald Trump. |
| 0:04.1 | Having remade his political party in his image, Trump will soon accept the formal presidential |
| 0:08.7 | nomination of the GOP at the Republican National Convention. |
| 0:13.0 | This convention will come to order. |
| 0:17.0 | Within hours of the opening gavel, |
| 0:20.0 | we learned who his running mate will be. |
| 0:23.0 | It is therefore my honor to nominate Ohio Senator J.D. Vance for the office of Vice President of the United States of America. |
| 0:35.0 | And Trump himself is receiving a hearty welcome from attendees and speakers in Milwaukee |
| 0:40.0 | as he recovers from an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on Saturday. |
| 0:45.0 | Good evening, we are coming on the air with breaking news. |
| 0:48.0 | There has been an incident at Donald Trump's... |
| 0:51.0 | I'm sorry, excuse me, I do have to cut you off for a moment here because here on your screen we do have some more breaking news from the Associated Press and saying law enforcement |
| 0:58.8 | tonight an ABC new special report the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. |
| 1:03.5 | And while one branch of the Justice Department continues the investigation into the motive |
| 1:07.6 | of the man who fired those shots, on Monday morning a federal judge made another stunning announcement |
| 1:14.3 | Judge Eileen Cannon a Trump appointee dismissed the entire federal case |
| 1:19.2 | against former President Trump involving classified documents. |
| 1:22.9 | We're talking about the charges around how Trump took top secret materials |
| 1:26.2 | to Maralago and then allegedly hid those materials from federal investigators. |
| 1:32.0 | Consider this. |
| 1:33.0 | Donald Trump already had a lot to be thankful for this week, |
| 1:36.0 | and now he has just learned |
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