Americanswers! After Trump’s conviction, what’s next?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Former President Donald Trump is now the first former US president to be criminally convicted. The historic verdict has drawn Americasters from all over the world to send in their burning questions: Could the fallout trigger civil unrest? Is Trump’s status causing Republicans to think twice about supporting him?
Marianna and Anthony tackle all these questions and more in this special edition of Americanswers!
HOSTS: * Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent * Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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This episode was made by Tim Walklate with Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to American Cancers. |
| 0:06.8 | This is Anthony Zerker here, |
| 0:08.0 | along with my trusty companion, Mariana. |
| 0:10.1 | Say hi, Mariana. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello, I'm speaking to you from London, and I think we've got lots of questions Anthony, don't we? |
| 0:16.2 | We do. |
| 0:17.2 | I mean it's been obviously an insane week here in America with big stories all across the board. |
| 0:24.7 | Donald Trump's conviction being the top of them. |
| 0:27.8 | And yeah, our listeners are very interested in getting some answers, |
| 0:31.4 | and we're here to provide as best we can a little bit of |
| 0:34.8 | insight into what's going on what next because I think that's all of these |
| 0:38.8 | questions the big question is what happens next because this is all uncharted territory. |
| 0:44.0 | Right, to kick off, let's do some quick-fire questions, Anthony. |
| 0:48.0 | So I'm going to give you a bit of a grilling or rather all the AmeriCasters who sent us questions |
| 0:52.3 | are. |
| 0:53.0 | So first of all, let's start with Sarah in Jerusalem, |
| 0:56.4 | who sent us this voice note. |
| 0:57.9 | Is it true that American felons aren't allowed to vote |
| 1:00.8 | and so we won't have the sight of president or ex-president |
| 1:05.0 | Trump going into a polling booth to vote for himself. It's kind of true. Honestly it's |
| 1:10.9 | a state by state thing. |
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