Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Charges
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Former President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to criminal charges. |
| 0:08.4 | Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump was arraigned on a New York Supreme Court indictment, |
| 0:14.7 | returned by a Manhattan Grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in |
| 0:21.5 | the first degree. |
| 0:23.0 | And Johnson and Johnson proposes paying $9 billion to settle lawsuits over its talc powder. |
| 0:28.8 | Plus, the White House says the release of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkiewicz is a priority. |
| 0:34.2 | It's Tuesday, April 4. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Ann Marie for Tolley for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.0 | This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved |
| 0:42.1 | the world today. |
| 0:50.2 | In an historic first, a former US President, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony |
| 0:55.8 | charges of falsifying records to hide hush money payments made to an adult film actress, |
| 1:01.1 | just weeks before the 2016 presidential election. |
| 1:04.0 | It's the first time in US history that a former president has faced criminal charges. |
| 1:09.0 | The charges cap a year's long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office |
| 1:13.7 | into Trump's role in a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep |
| 1:19.4 | quiet about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump a decade earlier. |
| 1:23.9 | Trump has denied the affair. |
| 1:25.7 | The criminal investigation was triggered in part by a series of Wall Street Journal |
| 1:29.2 | articles about the payment in 2018. |
| 1:32.4 | After Trump's arraignment today, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said that Trump's |
| 1:36.3 | alleged payments were intended to conceal another crime. |
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