Ep. 1703 - Trump Is Charged -- And Then Fights Back
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is charged in Manhattan court with 34 counts of falsifying business documents. |
| 0:04.9 | DA Alvin Bragg pretends this is all about principle, and Trump launches a response from Marlago. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Ben Shapiro. |
| 0:09.9 | This is The Ben Shapiro Show. |
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| 0:20.8 | Defend your rights at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, folks, the circus was in town yesterday in Manhattan when Alvin Bragg decided that now was finally the time to get Donald Trump. Now, we had been told that we weren't supposed to prejudge the situation. We just weren't supposed to prejudge it. Because after all, the indictment might come down, |
| 0:54.6 | and it might be something completely different from what we had led to believe. We'd been led to believe that, obviously, this was a bunch of misdemeanors that had been spun into felonies, that these were state misdemeanors spun into state felonies that were then being linked to a federal felony charge that was never actually filed. It looked really weak, in other words. |
| 0:56.7 | But we were told, you know, wait for the indictments come out. |
| 0:54.6 | Just wait, just wait for the indictment. being linked to a federal felony charge that was never actually filed. It looked really weak, in other words. |
| 0:56.7 | But we were told, you know, wait for the indictments come out. Just wait, just wait for the indictment. Someone else were like, well, you know, I'm willing to go on the record and say that unless something shocking comes out in the indictment, this is a bunch of crap. But, you know, fair enough. Well, we waited. and now it turns out that the indictment is just a bunch of crap. |
| 1:10.4 | The indictment is out. |
| 1:11.8 | It is terrible. |
| 1:12.6 | It's a 34- that the indictment is just a bunch of crap. The indictment is out. |
| 1:11.8 | It is terrible. |
| 1:12.6 | It's a 34-count indictment. |
| 1:14.8 | And it essentially is one count over and over and over and over and over again. |
| 1:19.7 | There's, it's not 34 separate counts. |
| 1:21.9 | It is Donald Trump lied about paying off various people, three specific people, a doorman, a porn star, and |
| 1:30.6 | another quasi-porn star. And the idea is that in doing so, he did not declare these as campaign |
| 1:38.2 | finance donations, that these should have been categorized as campaign finance expenses as |
| 1:43.4 | opposed to being paid |
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