Democracy Now! 2024-05-31 Friday
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 31, 2024; Guilty: Trump Becomes First Ex-President Felon in U.S. History; “Unprecedented in the History of American Republicanism”: Historian on Trump Verdict & GOP Extremism; Exclusive: USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled; “I Was Shocked”: Meet the State Dept. Official Who Quit After Report Denies Israel Blocking Gaza Aid
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| 0:00.0 | From the From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, we have the most important voice of all, and that's the voice of the jurors they have spoken Donald Shay |
| 0:24.8 | Trump has been convicted of 34 counts of false fine business records. |
| 0:28.2 | This was a rigged disgraceful trial that the real verdict is going to be November 5th by the people and they |
| 0:37.5 | know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. |
| 0:40.3 | Guilty and a historic verdict former President Donald Trump's convicted on all 34 felony counts in a hush money election fraud criminal trial. |
| 0:53.0 | Trump is now the first former president to be convicted of a felony and faces up to four years in person. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll get the latest. |
| 1:02.0 | Then two more Biden administration officials resign in |
| 1:06.1 | protest over the administration's support for the war on Gaza. We'll speak with |
| 1:11.6 | Alex Smith, a contractor for USAID, who resigned this week after his presentation |
| 1:18.2 | on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, was cancelled. We'll also be joined by veteran State Department |
| 1:25.6 | official Stacy Gilbert. She stepped down this week citing disagreements with the recent |
| 1:30.6 | State Department report that claimed Israel's not obstructing U.S. humanitarian |
| 1:35.2 | assistance to Gaza. |
| 1:37.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:41.1 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 1:46.5 | The War and Peace Report. |
| 1:48.6 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:49.9 | Guilty. |
| 1:50.9 | After three weeks of testimony in less than 12 hours of deliberation, a Manhattan jury has found |
| 1:56.7 | former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony charges of attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election by falsifying |
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