Swamp Notes: The Trump verdict is in
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Former US president Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records on Thursday, a first for any current or former American president. However, with the Republican nomination all but secured, the conviction may do little to knock Trump’s reelection campaign off course. The FT’s US managing editor, Peter Spiegel, and US legal correspondent, Joe Miller, join this week’s Swamp Notes to explain why.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:10.0 | The UK's energy partner. U.S. Presidents have faced plenty of legal trouble. Legend has it that Ulysses S. Grant was arrested |
| 0:18.9 | for a speeding violation in 1872 with his horse and buggy. |
| 0:24.0 | But no current or former US president |
| 0:26.5 | had ever been found guilty of a felony |
| 0:29.5 | until this week. This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the F.T. News briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in the 2024 US presidential election. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Mark Filipino and this week we're asking how could Trump's criminal |
| 0:47.4 | conviction shake up the presidential race. |
| 0:50.1 | Here with me to discuss is Peter Spiegel he He's the FT's US managing editor. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi Peter. |
| 0:55.0 | Good to be here Mark. |
| 0:56.0 | And we've also got Joe Miller. |
| 0:58.0 | He's the FT's legal correspondent. |
| 1:00.0 | He's been following the Trump trial. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi Joe. |
| 1:02.6 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:03.6 | So, Joe, it's easy to get bogged down in the charges. |
| 1:06.9 | But first, just back up a little bit and tell us |
| 1:09.5 | what were the events that led us to the legal action that we saw this week? |
| 1:14.0 | Well the events hark back to a golf tournament in 2006 when Stormy Daniels, a then a very famous porn actor, |
| 1:25.3 | alleges that she had a sexual encounter |
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