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The Brian Lehrer Show

Brian Lehrer Weekend Special: Trump Conviction Appeals and Sentencing Preview with Aziz Huq

The Brian Lehrer Show

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For your weekend listening, in case you missed it: Aziz Huq on the felony convictions of the former president in the "hush money" trial in Manhattan.

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0:00.0

Hi, Brian Lairer here.

0:01.4

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

0:03.0

three of our favorite segments from the week,

0:05.0

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

0:07.6

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

0:11.2

on WNYC and WNYC.org. First and foremost, I want to thank the jury for its service.

0:34.4

Jurors perform a fundamental civic duty.

0:39.0

Their service is literally the cornerstone of our judicial system.

0:44.5

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg opening the Brian Larishell this morning after the jury announced its 34 verdicts of guilty in the case of Donald Trump, falsifying business

0:55.7

records to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. After Trump complained about Bragg and the judge,

1:02.9

the DA reminded everyone there that it was the jury who heard the evidence and came to their

1:08.3

verdicts. So now what happens? An appeal to be sure. A sentencing date of July

1:14.5

11th. So could Trump actually be sent to prison four days before the start of the Republican

1:20.1

Convention? Another trial, by the way, begins this coming Monday. This is worth noting, right after the

1:25.8

first trial of a former president on criminal right after the first trial of a former president on criminal

1:28.1

charges comes the first trial of a sitting president's son, Hunter Biden, faces cover-up charges

1:34.8

to. Trump's was basically a cover-up case. In Hunter Biden's case, covering up that he had been

1:41.0

addicted to drugs when applying for a gun permit in Delaware.

1:45.6

That one is a federal case brought by the Biden Justice Department against the president's own son.

1:52.2

So let's talk about what happened in that Manhattan courtroom and what happens next with me.

1:57.9

University of Chicago law professor Aziz Huck, a scholar of constitutional law,

2:03.0

Criminal Procedure, and the Federal Courts, and author of books, including How to Save a

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