How much trouble is Donald Trump in?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Former US President Donald Trump now faces multiple criminal and civil cases. Which are the most serious, what do they mean for his presidential campaign and could the US constitution prevent him from taking office if he wins the 2024 election?
David Aaronovitch speaks to:
Sarah Smith, BBC North America Editor Renato Mariotti, Legal Affairs Columnist for POLITICO Magazine, former federal prosecutor and co-host of the “It’s Complicated” podcast Kermit Roosevelt III, professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, author of The Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story.
Production: Ben Carter, Kirsteen Knight and Diane Richardson Production co-ordinator: Sophie Hill and Debbie Richford Sound: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.5 | In ordinary times, the idea of a former US president entering a Georgia county jail |
| 0:13.9 | to be charged with a plot to overturn an election result would seem unthinkable. |
| 0:19.7 | But these aren't ordinary times. Donald Trump has already been |
| 0:24.2 | booked in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C. on a myriad of different criminal charges. |
| 0:30.8 | He, of course, pleads not guilty to all of them. And a lot of the American public, at least |
| 0:36.2 | those who will vote in the Republican |
| 0:38.0 | primaries, don't seem to care. A recent poll had Trump 46 points clear of his nearest |
| 0:45.6 | Republican challenger, Ron Dacentis. Trump feels so comfortable he even skipped this |
| 0:51.9 | week's candidate's debate in Milwaukee. Winning politically is one thing. |
| 0:57.0 | Winning in the courts is another. |
| 1:00.0 | How likely is he to be convicted? |
| 1:02.0 | And more importantly, even if he is convicted and possibly has to serve jail time, |
| 1:08.0 | will that stop him from serving a second term in the White House? |
| 1:12.7 | Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 1:20.6 | Firstly, your handy bullet point guide to the cases Donald Trump is currently dealing with. |
| 1:26.8 | Joining me in the briefing room is Sarah Smith, |
| 1:29.3 | the BBC's North America correspondent, who's in Atlanta. |
| 1:33.7 | Sarah Smith, can we just talk through the list of legal cases against Donald Trump, |
| 1:38.5 | and I'll tick them off as you tell us what they are? |
| 1:41.2 | I'll run through them quickly because there is a lot to get through. |
| 1:45.0 | So the most recent indictment against Donald Trump was in the state of Georgia, where he's |
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