Georgia judge rejects Trump request to dismiss election racketeering charges under 1st Amendment
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
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A Georgia judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's request to dismiss election racketeering charges under the First Amendment.
USA TODAY 2024 Campaign Reporter Zac Anderson talks about how Donald Trump has made the murder of Michigan woman Ruby Garcia part of immigration debate on the campaign trail.
President Joe Biden gives an ultimatum to Israel.
USA TODAY Money Reporter Bailey Schulz looks at a study that found racial bias in AI chatbots.
This year's hurricane season forecast includes the highest number of hurricanes ever predicted.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday April 5th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.3 | excerpt. Today a new development in Trump's election interference case, plus how Trump is making the |
| 0:28.3 | murder of a Michigan woman part of the border debate, and we look at whether AI chatbots are racially biased. |
| 0:36.3 | The Georgia judge in former President Donald Trump's election interference case yesterday |
| 0:40.6 | rejected his argument that the First Amendment |
| 0:43.2 | shielded him from racketeering charges because his |
| 0:45.8 | unfounded claims of widespread election fraud were political speech. |
| 0:50.0 | Trump's lawyer Steve Sadow argued the charges should be dismissed because Trump was speaking |
| 0:54.3 | about politics as president. |
| 0:56.5 | Sadow argued that even if Trump made false statements as alleged in the indictment, he must |
| 1:00.9 | be protected for a political debate. |
| 1:03.0 | But Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled that the First Amendment does not protect speech that is part of a crime |
| 1:10.0 | and that a jury must decide whether it was in Trump's case. |
| 1:14.3 | Meanwhile on the campaign trail, |
| 1:20.0 | Trump has made the murder of a Michigan woman Ruby Garcia part of the immigration debate. |
| 1:24.9 | I spoke with USA Today 2024 campaign reporter Zach Anderson to learn more. |
| 1:30.3 | Zach, thanks for hopping on the excerpt today. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, happy to be here. |
| 1:33.8 | So Zach, let's just start with this. |
| 1:35.9 | Who was Ruby Garcia and what do we know about her death? |
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