Former President Trump is a Convicted Felon. Now What?

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, making him the first current or former president in US history to become a convicted felon. It’s earth shaking news and still, the presidential race, with Trump in it, continues on. We’ll talk about what happens next, how the politics might shake out and we’ll hear from listeners and process all of our reactions. Guests: Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED - Co-host of KQED's Political Breakdown show Scott Shafer, senior editor, KQED’s California Politics and Government desk; co-host, Political Breakdown David Graham, staff writer, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.1	You have undoubtedly heard the news.
0:56.7	Wow. Former president Donald Trump has been convicted of all 34 counts related to payments he made to Stormy Daniels in order to keep details
1:02.6	of their alleged affair from becoming public before the 2016 election. Yeah, we're still processing
1:09.6	it all too, and this morning I'll be joined by our political
1:12.5	team and some outside folks to just work through what happened. Now what comes next. At 10,
1:18.5	Mina's going to do more legal analysis, help you get your bearings. That's all coming up next
1:22.6	right after this news.
1:42.8	Welcome to the forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. You know, minutes before the verdict came down in Donald Trump's trial in New York,
1:44.7	I think I would have given a conviction a small chance. And my skepticism wasn't so much about the
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