Breaking Newscast: Donald Trump Found Guilty
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic criminal trial in New York. He called the verdict a “disgrace” and maintained his innocence - the sentencing happens on 11 July.
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This episode was made by Tim Walklate with Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's Adam at home. |
| 0:06.5 | It's 1130 on Thursday night, and Donald Trump has just been found guilty |
| 0:11.8 | in a court in New York of falsifying his business records. |
| 0:15.3 | This is the first time a former president has been found guilty and convicted of a crime. |
| 0:21.8 | His sentencing will be held on the 11th of of a they've been following the trial weekly since it started about six weeks ago. |
| 0:34.3 | So here is Anthony Zerker and gang with that episode. |
| 0:38.9 | Newscast from the BBC. morning when I was talking about the Donald Trump criminal court case before a verdict has |
| 0:55.1 | been reached and now it is the evening after Donald Trump has been found guilty of |
| 1:00.8 | 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree the first |
| 1:05.2 | time a US president former US president future US president has been found |
| 1:10.3 | guilty of a felony it has been a historic week here in Washington DC and in New York and |
| 1:17.4 | we're just starting to come to the grips with the political and the legal fallout of what just happened. |
| 1:23.7 | So here's what Donald Trump had to say to reporters right after the verdict came down. |
| 1:28.8 | He wasn't particularly happy. |
| 1:31.2 | This was a rigged disgraceful trial. |
| 1:35.0 | The real verdict is going to be November 5th by the people. |
| 1:40.1 | And they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. |
| 1:43.7 | Welcome to Americaast in court. |
| 1:46.5 | Americaast. |
| 1:49.5 | Americaast from BBC News. |
| 1:51.9 | The first ever criminal trial of a former president of these United States. |
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