Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels and New York Law

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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News reports suggest that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg might be planning to indict Donald Trump for falsifying business records related to his hush money to Stormy Daniels in 2016. Could prosecutors be stretching the law to make this a felony, how would a criminal case affect the 2024 primaries, and could Trump run as a third-party candidate? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:10.8	Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
0:18.3	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:25.1	President Trump's former lawyer testifies to a New York Grand jury.
0:29.4	But what is the case that prosecutors seem to be trying to build against the former president?
0:33.6	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.0	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurne and editorial board member
0:42.2	Manet Uquibirua.
0:43.7	Michael Cohen, the Trump organization's former fixer, testified for about three hours before
0:49.2	a grand jury in Manhattan on Monday.
0:52.0	The District Attorney, Elvin Bragg, has also invited testimony from Trump himself.
0:56.7	The former president is expected to decline that offer to appear before the grand jury.
1:01.4	But legal analysts are saying that asking the target of investigation to appear generally
1:07.1	signals that prosecutors are wrapping things up so we may get more news soon.
1:12.2	But on that point, the media's full of trial balloons about what charges Bragg might
1:16.3	bring against Trump.
1:18.0	The consensus is that they would involve his hush money payment in 2016 to stormy Daniels.
1:24.8	And here's Trump reacting to questions about whether he would drop out if he was indicted.
1:29.7	Here he is speaking to reporters before his CPAC speech.
1:32.8	These are which anxies have been going on for a long time.
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