Donald Trump guilty on all counts
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has been found guilty of conspiring to buy the silence of a porn actor and Saudi Arabia is selling roughly $12bn worth of shares in its national oil company Saudi Aramco. Plus, European oil majors are left at a disadvantage in several areas when it comes to M&A.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in ‘hush money’ trial
Saudi Arabia to sell $12bn worth of Aramco shares
Why the European oil megamerger has not gushed forth
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Ethan Plotkin, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Friday, May 31st, and this is your |
| 0:17.2 | FT News briefing. Donald Trump is now the first former US president to be convicted of a crime. |
| 0:24.0 | And Saudi Arabia is looking for fresh capital. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus US oil and gas has been on an M&A craze. |
| 0:32.0 | It's like there was a starting gun fired and this sparked a wave of consolidation. |
| 0:38.0 | But Europe? |
| 0:39.0 | Not so much. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. Donald Trump was found guilty in New York yesterday of conspiring to buy the silence of a porn star just before the 2016 presidential election. |
| 1:05.2 | The crime was that he tried to cover his tracks in business records. |
| 1:13.0 | This was a rigged disgraceful trial. |
| 1:17.0 | The real verdict is going to be November 5th by the people. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm joined now by the F.T.'s Joe Miller who was at the courthouse when the verdict was read. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi, Joe. |
| 1:28.0 | Hi, Joe. |
| 1:30.0 | So Joe, just set the scene for us a little bit. |
| 1:32.0 | What was it like in the courtroom when the verdict came down? |
| 1:35.6 | There was a hush that descended over the courtroom |
| 1:39.2 | as the jurors started to file back in |
| 1:41.7 | as Donald Trump walked in and sat silently at the defense table |
| 1:46.2 | and then we heard the full person stand up and read each one of the 34 counts |
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