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Donald Trump Prepares to Surrender in Hush-Money Case

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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A.M. Edition for April 4. Former President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in to New York authorities today and face criminal charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn star. WSJ court reporter Corinne Ramey sketches out the potential road ahead for Trump after today’s arraignment. Plus, Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.8

It's Donald Trump's day in court. We'll look at the likely road ahead for the former president.

0:35.6

One thing that I've learned from covering a lot of court cases is they are really, really slow.

0:42.0

I think realistically we could expect this case could go to trial in about a year.

0:47.5

Plus Finland joins the NATO Alliance today and Virgin Orbit goes belly up.

0:53.6

It's Tuesday, April 4th. I'm Luke Vargas with the Wall Street Journal, and here's the AM edition

0:58.9

of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

1:10.4

Former President Donald Trump has arrived in New York ahead of his

1:13.9

arrangement later this afternoon. At 2.15pm Eastern time, Trump will be arrested,

1:20.3

fingerprinted, and photographed at a Manhattan courthouse. But what comes after that?

1:26.4

What will the case against Trump likely hinge on and who are the key figures to watch?

1:32.5

Wall Street Journal court reporter Karin Raimi is here now with all of the answers to those

1:37.5

questions. Right, Karin, you can help us here. I'll do my best.

1:41.6

Excellent. So let's start with the basics, which is what can we expect beyond today?

1:45.6

Is Trump going to need to be coming back to New York all the time? Is this trial going to be

1:49.6

kind of a daily news event or maybe something that has a few big moments in the spotlight?

1:53.9

But then the rest of the time it's sort of playing out behind closed doors.

1:57.8

So one thing that I've learned from covering a lot of court cases is they are really, really slow.

2:04.4

The court cases take a long time to move through our court system here in New York.

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