Donald Trump Becomes The First President Charged With Criminal Activity
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🗓️ 6 April 2023
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Summary
In a 34-count felony indictment, prosecutors allege that Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election through hush money payments to two women who said they had sexual encounters with him. The charges stem from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The former president has called the indictment "political persecution" and pled not guilty to all counts.
We go over the charges, answer your questions, and talk about what happens next.
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| 0:00.0 | It happened. |
| 0:09.2 | Former President Donald Trump is now the first president, former or current, charged with |
| 0:14.0 | criminal activity. |
| 0:16.3 | Prosecutors say that he conspired to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election through |
| 0:21.3 | hush money payments to two women who said they had sexual encounters with him. |
| 0:25.7 | The former president called the indictment, quote, political persecution. |
| 0:29.8 | And last night, back home at his Florida resident in Mar-a-Lago, he turned to the Manhattan |
| 0:33.9 | DA. |
| 0:34.9 | Beginning with the radical left to George Soros, back prosecutor Alvin Bragg of New York, |
| 0:43.6 | who campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm going to get him. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm going to get him. |
| 0:51.6 | This is a guy campaigning. |
| 0:54.1 | You want to get President Trump at any cost and this before he knew anything about me, |
| 0:59.9 | didn't know a thing about me. |
| 1:01.2 | He was campaigning. |
| 1:03.2 | As it turns out, virtually everybody that has looked at this case, including rhinos and |
| 1:07.9 | even hardcore Democrats, say there is no crime and that it should never have been brought. |
| 1:16.3 | Never have been brought. |
| 1:18.9 | Everybody. |
| 1:19.9 | We'll go over the charges, answer your questions and talk about what happens next. |
| 1:27.7 | I'm Jen White. |
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