Has Trump Run Out the Clock?

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

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With four criminal cases against him, including one that was scheduled to begin this week, Donald Trump and his legal team have successfully muddied the waters in all four trials. With solid odds of winning the presidential election in the fall, has Donald Trump managed to once again wriggle his way out of this one? Guest: Jeremy Stahl, Slate’s jurisprudence editor. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeremy Stahl thought he knew exactly what his schedule was going to look like this week.
0:10.0	Jeremy covers courts in the law for slate. He lives in LA, but he'd planned to be in New York.
0:16.0	He was going to sit in the courtroom as the first of Donald Trump's four criminal cases,
0:21.0	finally moved forward. This is the Hush Money case involving
0:25.2	porn star Stormy Daniels. The trial date was expected to be and
0:30.0	scheduled to be Monday, March 25th.
0:33.6	You were gonna move out here.
0:35.1	I was gonna move out here for, you know,
0:37.5	a good period of time, a month and a half of life,
0:41.7	and that was the plan until a little over a week ago.
0:47.0	All right, we begin here with our big story.
0:49.6	Prosecutors now seeking a 30-day delay in the New York criminal hush money case against
0:54.8	Donald Trump. That's when suddenly the judge in this case agreed to put the
0:59.7	trial on a 30-day hold. Is any delay that he can get a win for team Trump?
1:06.0	Well, I think it is.
1:08.0	When this New York trial was pushed back, were you surprised?
1:12.0	Did you react?
1:13.1	Yes, I certainly had like an emotional reaction of,
1:16.1	ugh, what the heck, what is going on?
1:19.3	How is this happening again.
1:35.0	Because it was totally unforeseen, this was the one case where everything had gone super, duper smoothly up until that point.
1:45.0	Donald Trump is of course facing four criminal prosecutions and now three of them are in some kind of holding pattern. Former President Trump has so far successfully delayed his January 6th criminal trial
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