Americanswers: Can Trump Still Win Again?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As Donald Trump pleads not guilty over the Capitol riot, will his third criminal indictment impact his election chances?
Is the ex-president allowed to use campaign money to fund his legal battles? Could he really be president from jail? And is there no-one in the Democratic Party who will challenge Joe Biden?
We’re back (and Justin has woken up!) to answer questions from Americasters with the help of political correspondent Liz Landers, who's standing in for Anthony (but doesn’t have his pink suit).
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent
GUEST: • Liz Landers, political correspondent
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo and Hayley Clarke. The technical producer was Philip Bull and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello from outside the Federal |
| 0:14.6 | Courthouse in Washington, where I'm one of, I would say several hundred journalists |
| 0:18.7 | who are here for Donald Trump's court appearance, his third in four months. |
| 0:23.1 | History we're witnessing really here as the third indictment and the first |
| 0:27.4 | arrangement of this election probe case unfolds today. |
| 0:31.1 | Now, he may be the first former president ever to be facing criminal charges, but once |
| 0:36.2 | he gets inside a courtroom, he's treated like any other defendant. |
| 0:40.2 | Today he was kept waiting nearly 25 minutes before the judge appeared in the courtroom and |
| 0:45.1 | during that time he was sat between his two lawyers, whispering with them a bit. |
| 0:49.6 | One point he was even twiddling his thumbs as he waited for the judgment. |
| 0:53.0 | When she got there, things carried on as normally was sworn any spoke to confirm |
| 0:57.4 | his name and his age, and a firm is not under the influence of any substances, and then |
| 1:02.2 | his lawyer entered a plea for him on all four charges, not guilty. |
| 1:06.4 | You arrested! You arrested! You arrested! You arrested! |
| 1:13.4 | Outside the courtroom there are plenty of Trump supporters here, some of them say they |
| 1:17.9 | have been to every single one of his arrangements. |
| 1:21.0 | And as soon as the hearing was over, Donald Trump swept off and his motorcade back to the |
| 1:25.7 | airport to fly back to New Jersey. |
| 1:31.7 | But being Donald Trump couldn't resist first talking to the cameras. |
| 1:35.4 | This is a very sad day for America, and it was also very sad driving through Washington, |
| 1:42.4 | D.C., and seeing the film and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and |
| 1:49.4 | the graffiti. |
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