Fear and Bravado: Inside Trump’s Reaction to the Indictment

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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After Donald J. Trump was indicted over his role in paying hush money to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign, he called the move an act of political persecution. But his impending arrest could actually make Mr. Trump a stronger candidate for 2024, the Times correspondent Maggie Haberman explains. Guest: Maggie Haberman, a political correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:04.0	This is a daily.
0:07.0	Today, what the indictment and impending arrest of Donald Trump means for both him and
0:18.8	his party.
0:21.9	My colleague Maggie Haberman has the inside story of how it's been playing out.
0:28.9	It's Monday, April 3rd.
0:37.9	Maggie.
0:44.9	Michael.
0:45.9	I was thinking in preparation for this interview how much the history of the daily has been defined
0:52.4	by you coming on to talk about Donald Trump.
0:54.9	There's the kind of presidential phase, then there's the post-presential phase, now there's
1:00.6	the indictment phase of Maggie explaining and translating the world of Donald Trump.
1:07.1	It is always a privilege to be here with you on what I think is now our seventh year.
1:13.4	Yes.
1:14.4	Maybe our seventh lifetime.
1:17.4	Now that Trump has been indicted over these Hush 20 payments made during his first presidential
1:23.7	campaign, we want to understand how he and those around him and really the entire
1:29.6	Republican party have been processing this really extraordinary moment.
1:35.3	If we can, I want to start the clock back just a little bit to the days before the indictment,
1:41.4	and the possibility of it based on your reporting seemed to be very much on Trump's mind.
1:48.4	Sure.
1:49.4	So, you have to remember, Michael, that for Trump being under investigation is not a new phenomenon.
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