Is Donald Trump Going to Prison?

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The former president’s legal status is one of the biggest wild cards heading into 2024. Even as he dominates the Republican primary and his party, Trump has been indicted on 91 felony charges, across four criminal cases in state and federal courts. We spent a day talking to our colleagues in The Times’s newsroom, trying to get answers to questions it’s surreal to even be asking. Among them: Are Republicans coalescing around a man who may soon be a convicted felon? And how much will Trump’s legal troubles collide with an election cycle that is unlike any we’ve seen before?

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0:00.0	Eight months ago, I was outside the courthouse when Donald Trump was arranged in Manhattan.
0:11.8	We are coming on the air with historic news.
0:15.0	For the first time ever in American history, a former president of the United States
0:20.0	has been indicted.
0:22.0	And since then... It's another historical... has been indicted.
0:22.6	And since then.
0:24.1	It's another historic moment in a series of historic moments.
0:27.9	Former US President Donald Trump indicted again.
0:31.7	A lot more has happened.
0:33.0	For the third time this year, Donald Trump was arraigned in a courtroom.
0:37.0	This time he's facing...
0:38.0	For the fourth time this year, former President Donald Trump is defendant Donald Trump late yesterday.
0:43.8	For those not keeping score, Trump has been indicted on 91 felony charges
0:49.6	across four criminal cases in state and federal courts.
0:54.4	At the same time, he's continued to dominate the Republican primary
0:58.8	and the party.
1:01.1	So while 2024 could very well be a rematch between Trump and Joe Biden, there's no way
1:07.2	it'll be the same election as 2020 or any election ever.
1:13.0	Considering Trump now faces something like 700 years in prison,
1:18.0	at least on paper.
1:20.0	Trump's legal status is one of the biggest wildcards heading into next year.
1:25.0	So I decided to get a crash course in the law and spend the day in the Times Newsroom trying to answer questions,
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