Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. I'm John Batsworth Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow.

He teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago.

And we turn to the trials of presidential

candidate Donald Trump the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party

former president of the United States running for a second term his final term in

other words he's running to be a lame duck president.

He has an important decision to make for the vice presidency. Not yet, however, that might

lay wait till the convention. What cannot wait right now are the trials of Donald

Trump. We begin with the trial in Manhattan, the brag prosecution. We have heard

endless recitations of what happened when with whom and how I'm talking about

Daniels. I know Reed didn't reason for is not what is necessary for a conviction of the allegation.

This is about bookkeeping.

Richard, if I said that correctly,

this whole prosecution could be made in terms of book statements.

Well, if you look at the accounts of what's going on, they're alleging hush payments,

and what you have to do is to trace the money to see why it was sending, what the motivation for sending it.

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