Can Keir handle Trump?

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The news that Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies meant that the Labour leader faced questions about the former president on Friday morning, rather than the Diane Abbott selection storm. On his visit to Scotland, Starmer told the BBC that a Labour government would be willing to work with ‘whoever’ was elected in November’s presidential contest. But how would Starmer deal with Trump?

James Heale speaks to Kate Andrews and Freddy Gray.

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0:24.4	Coffee Hour Shots I'm James Heel and joined day by Freddie Gray and Kate Andrews
0:28.1	now Freddie we've had the news that Donald Trump has been convicted of 34
0:32.0	felonies.
0:32.8	Tell us about this trial that's happened in New York
0:35.6	and what this means for the American election.
0:38.0	Well, I think people, some people thought it might not be,
0:42.0	Trump might not be found guilty. I think most people thought it might not be, Trump might not be found guilty.
0:43.4	I think most people thought it was likely that he would be found guilty by a New York
0:47.8	court.
0:48.8	You're not unlikely to find many Trump plans in a New York jury.
0:52.1	But I think what was surprising was that all 34 counts
0:55.3	a sort of unanimous and these counts all these charges are very boring technical
1:01.9	and to do with the
1:02.9	falsification of business records for the purpose of committing a crime, a
1:06.4	federal crime. And I think that has surprised people and I think even quite a
1:12.4	few Democrats are thinking,
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