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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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David Aaronovitch and guests discuss Donald Trump's conviction in the hush money case, examine the cases yet to be heard and ask whether any of this hurts his election chances?
Guests:
Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America correspondent Jack Chin, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of California, Davis Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science at Brown University
Production team: Caroline Bayley, Miriam Quayyum, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter Editor: Richard Vadon Production Co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman Sound engineers: Rod Farquhar
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:08.0 | Donald Trump is a convicted felon for the moment. |
0:12.8 | A jury in New York found that the ex-president did falsify documents |
0:16.8 | to conceal a sexual encounter with the adult film star Stormy Daniels. |
0:21.6 | Trump will appeal and has implored the US Supreme Court to throw out the conviction. |
0:27.4 | Trump is now zero for three in court, having also lost a business fraud lawsuit |
0:32.6 | and the E. Gene Carroll defamation lawsuit, both civil cases. |
0:40.0 | But there are much bigger, potentially more damaging criminal cases on the horizon. So where have we got to with them? What are |
0:45.9 | their implications for Trump's presidential aspirations in November and for Trump even beyond |
0:51.8 | the election? Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
0:59.6 | First, a reminder about the hush money case itself |
1:02.6 | and an assessment of the reaction to it. |
1:05.7 | Anthony Zerker is the BBC's North America correspondent. |
1:09.7 | Anthony Zirka, just remind us what charges Trump was actually facing in the stormy Daniels Hushmoney case? |
1:15.9 | So he was facing 34 counts of falsifying business records. |
1:20.3 | That's a violation of New York state law. |
1:22.5 | And normally, they're misdemeanors, low-level crimes on their own. |
1:25.9 | But they became felonies when the prosecutors said |
1:29.3 | that that falsification of documents, checks and ledger entries, was used to cover up another crime, |
1:35.5 | and that was a violation of state and federal election law and state tax law, and that all of this |
1:40.9 | was done by Donald Trump with the goal of concealing hush money payments |
1:45.3 | that Donald Trump made to Stormy Daniels, that adult film star who alleged that they had had |
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