Arrested. Development in the Trump Saga
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump was arraigned yesterday on 34 felony counts in a New York state court. The crime was falsifying business records as part of scheme to potentially avoid taxes and to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. We caught up with New York-based reporter Hunter Walker, a longtime contributor to the Bill Press Pod. Walker literally wrote the book on the January 6th investigation along with Denver Riggleman and has followed the Trump story from the beginning. Hunter is currently an Investigative Reporter for Talking Points Memo. He was most recently a White House Correspondent for Yahoo News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod on the day after, a momentous day indeed for this nation. |
| 0:15.1 | Yes, Donald Trump has made history again. He's now not only the first president to be impeached twice, he's also the first |
| 0:24.4 | former president to be actually charged with a crime. 34 of them. Yep, it all happened in a |
| 0:31.2 | Manhattan courtroom yesterday afternoon where Trump was forced to appear, booked, fingerprinted, |
| 0:37.1 | and charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, |
| 0:41.3 | all related to alleged hush money payments made by Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels, |
| 0:48.8 | to all of which, of course, Trump pled not guilty. |
| 0:52.6 | The problem is that this time is not just his word against |
| 0:56.1 | Stormy Daniels, because Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, has already testified |
| 1:01.7 | that he made those hushed payments to Stormy Daniels for Donald Trump and was reimbursed |
| 1:07.8 | by Donald Trump. So what happens next and how much legal trouble is Donald Trump really in? |
| 1:15.7 | If any. |
| 1:17.4 | Our New York-based friend Hunter Walker of Talking Points memo has been following this case from |
| 1:22.2 | its very beginning and we were lucky to catch up with Hunter yesterday afternoon shortly after Donald Trump left |
| 1:29.3 | the New York courthouse. Hunter Walker, it's a busy day for all of you journalists in New York. |
| 1:34.2 | Thank you for taking time for us here on the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:37.8 | Always, always. How are you, Bill? |
| 1:39.7 | So finally, it's been unveiled. We see the charges, 34 of them. What is Donald Trump? What was |
| 1:47.9 | Donald Trump charged with today? Spell it out for us. So he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying |
| 1:55.6 | business records, which is a Class E felony. The technical name of the charge is falsifying business records. |
| 2:03.4 | In the first degree, a Class E felony, what's really interesting about that, the reason I wanted |
| 2:08.6 | to get really technical with it, is, you know, second degree falsification of business records |
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