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Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday.

Hey, twice in a week I did the piece earlier on the Supreme Court argument

over the future of TikTok. Of course, there's another legal story catching some attention

today, and that is the sentencing of Donald Trump on the Manhattan DA's Hush Money case.

I'll talk about it in a moment. But you know, it occurred to me,

this will be, I think, Donald Trump's last appearance in a criminal court proceeding. He won't

physically be in court. It'll probably be on Zoom, but it's still a court appearance. And we've

really gotten used to this spectacle, I guess, in the last year and a half since the indictment started dropping.

He's been in court many, many times to face arraignment, to have pretrial conferences,

and gosh, we've almost gotten used to the spectacle of a former president, now a future president,

coming into criminal court. And I don't think we're going to see this again for a long,

long time. I hope we don't see this again for a long, long time. But it is sort of the end,

I guess, of this era of our legal history. We've learned. We've had some controversies.

And it's been remarkable to behold. I don't mean that in a positive or negative way.

Just the kind of thing you never really thought you'd see.

Well, we've seen it, and I guess we've learned some valuable lessons.

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