An update on Trump's hush money trial.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The latest in Donald Trump’s New York trial. This week, Trump's one-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified in the former president’s trial for allegedly falsifying business records, commonly referred to as the "hush money" case. Cohen’s testimony comes a week after adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, took the stand to describe her alleged relationship with Trump. Cohen and Daniels are key witnesses for the prosecution, which is claiming that Trump falsified records of payments to suppress incriminating personal information during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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| 0:35.2 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:41.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about former President Donald Trump and his New York City trial, the Manhattan case around all the hush money stuff. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm going to break down some of my relatively strong feelings about this and also share some |
| 1:19.5 | arguments from the right and the left about what has happened in the case as we always do. |
| 1:25.4 | Before we jump in, a quick heads up tomorrow, around 12 noon, I'm going to be doing a public webinar hosted by Jane Friedman, |
| 1:34.1 | the writer and the founder of the newsletter Electric Speed. |
| 1:38.1 | We're going to be chatting about the business side of Tangle, how we've built this fully |
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| 1:55.9 | There is a registration link in today's episode description. Also, a quick heads up that our podcast went a little |
| 2:02.7 | long today, so I am not going to be doing a reader question. We're just going to be focusing on this |
| 2:07.5 | Trump case, and as always, we'll have our normal quick hits and under the radar story and all that |
| 2:12.1 | good stuff, but no listener reader question today, but keep an eye out for some more of that tomorrow and later this week. |
| 2:20.5 | And with that out of the way, we'll toss it to John, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 2:31.6 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Here are your quick hits for today. First up in Maryland, |
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