Day 1 of Trump's first criminal trial
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today on Post Reports, we’re on the scene at the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is facing trial in the first ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.
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Jury selection began today in the trial to determine whether Trump broke state law in New York by falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment in 2016 to keep adult film actress Stormy Daniels quiet about their alleged affair. Isaac Arnsdorf and Shayna Jacobs are at the courthouse and tell Martine Powers what they’ve seen so far.
Today’s episode was produced by Peter Bresnan and Ted Muldoon, who also mixed the show. It was edited by Lucy Perkins.
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| 0:00.0 | There's some people marching down a bus along. |
| 0:07.0 | There's some people marching down Center Street now with the signs say not above the law |
| 0:16.6 | and they're doing like a military-style chance. |
| 0:21.7 | That's Isaac Arnstorf, a national political reporter for the post. It's 815. It's a perfect |
| 0:29.1 | April morning in lower Manhattan. There's like the longest battery of TV cameras that you've ever |
| 0:37.7 | seen. |
| 0:38.7 | This morning Isaac was standing outside the Manhattan Courthouse |
| 0:45.3 | where the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump began today. |
| 0:49.3 | This is the case that goes back to the run-up to the 2016 election, and Trump is accused of falsifying |
| 0:56.6 | business records to hide hush payments to an adult film actress who alleged they had an affair to prevent that from coming out before |
| 1:06.1 | the election. |
| 1:07.7 | This trial is expected to take anywhere from six to eight weeks and it's unprecedented. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, this is the first time in American history |
| 1:15.7 | that we have a former president on trial. |
| 1:18.7 | It's also the first time we have a presumptive |
| 1:20.8 | major party nominee on a criminal trial during an election and it might not |
| 1:26.1 | be the last time, this is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers. It's |
| 1:39.1 | Monday, April 15th. Today, we take you to the New York trial of Donald Trump where the |
| 1:45.0 | former president is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business |
| 1:49.8 | records. Here's what we know to expect. |
| 1:53.0 | Prosecutors will build a case that Trump's alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, |
| 2:00.0 | plus the efforts to keep them quiet amounted to illegal actions to try to help win the presidency. |
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