Grand Jury votes to indict Donald Trump

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

He is the first former President to face criminal charges. The Manhattan Grand Jury was looking into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during Trump's 2016 campaign for President. Carol Leonnig, Michael Schmidt, Glenn Kirschner, Neal Katyal, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Lanny Davis, and Michael Beschloss join.

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0:00.0	Then Hatton Grand jury voted to indict Donald J Trump on Thursday for his role in paying
0:07.9	hush money to a porn star.
0:09.7	Today is the first day of the rest of Donald Trump's life.
0:12.3	Deep breath, everybody.
0:13.3	Obviously, this is a monumental historic importance.
0:18.9	Before tonight, presidents of this country were kings.
0:22.0	Now you're seeing citizen Trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless
0:27.1	of the adjectives of former president.
0:29.1	He's got to be photographed, he's got to be fingerprinted, he's got to appear before
0:32.2	a judge.
0:33.2	I believe that Donald right now is petrified.
0:37.2	This is one of his biggest fears.
0:40.0	Tonight he's calling the indictment, quote, political persecution.
0:43.4	The first thing the lawyer tells you when you are indicted for something or a charge for
0:46.8	something is shut up.
0:48.4	He does not have a good defense.
0:50.0	His defense will be a reliant on politics.
0:53.0	It will only get uglier from this moment on.
0:55.9	Get ready.
0:57.2	Strap on your legal seatbelt.
0:58.9	We are going forward as a country that is going to deal with this and put a president on trial.
1:06.3	Good evening once again.
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