Could Trump Be Arrested Over Stormy Daniels?
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
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Summary
This weekend, former President Trump warned supporters on Truth Social he could be arrested on Tuesday, and called for them to “TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” Although it’s unclear whether Trump is facing imminent arrest, many observers believe legal proceedings focused on Trump’s “hush money” payment to Stormy Daniels suggest an indictment is coming soon.
How strong is this case, and how likely is it that Trump will face real legal consequences?
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Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate’s Amicus, and author of “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.”
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| 0:00.0 | If your weekend was anything like mine, it was interrupted by a news flash. |
| 0:10.9 | Donald Trump was claiming his arrest was imminent. |
| 0:19.6 | In a post online, Trump said this Tuesday was the day the Manhattan District Attorney |
| 0:24.8 | would file charges against him. |
| 0:27.0 | For months of investigating the former president, not for his behavior during the 2020 election, |
| 0:32.2 | not for his behavior as a businessman, but for a one-time payment of $130,000 seven years |
| 0:39.0 | back. |
| 0:40.3 | This money was meant to keep porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about a sexual encounter |
| 0:44.9 | she'd allegedly had with Trump years ago. |
| 0:47.9 | I called up Slate's dolly, Lithwick, to ask, how seriously should I take all this? |
| 0:53.3 | I was thinking today, how many times have you or I or someone beloved to the both of us |
| 1:01.6 | written the sentence, the walls are closing in on Donald Trump, like the, it's closing |
| 1:09.9 | it, it's coming, you know, the law is finally, like I just think how many dozens of times |
| 1:16.7 | have we said, like, you can't get out of this one. |
| 1:20.2 | Really? |
| 1:21.2 | Quite a lot. |
| 1:22.2 | Quite a lot. |
| 1:23.2 | Does this weekend feel different? |
| 1:25.5 | It feels different. |
| 1:26.5 | I think I want to say not necessarily because of this New York pending indictment, which may |
| 1:32.9 | or may not be coming on Tuesday, but probably isn't it coming on Tuesday because the Trump |
| 1:37.6 | people had to walk it back already. |
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